The English novel: a short critical history

First edition. The author's selection of the most siginificant novels of the last two hundred and fifty years, starting with The Pilgrim's Progress, and concluding with Joyce and Lawrence, "Who took the English novel as far as it has yet gone...they are still the advance ground." Chapters on The Beginnings, The Eighteenth Century, Early Victorians, Later Victorians, The Novel from 1881 to 19l4, and 1914 and After. Some fading to head and tail of spine and wear to dust jacket. 359+ 1 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo..