About this title: "Politics and the Novel" clarifies the role of revolutionary ideas in fiction, establishing the role of the political novel, and tracing the growth of this novel into the 20th century. Examples are drawn from such classics as Stendhal's "The Red and the Black", Dostoevsky's "The Possessed", Conrad's "The Secret Agent" and Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons". Howe examines how American novels failed to integrate ideology into their works and discusses political fiction after World War II: Kundera's "Book of Laughter and Forgetting", Naipaul's "Bend in the River", and Solzhenitsyn's "The First Circle ...
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Description: Good. Book has medium cover wear, light cover lift, spine creases, small tear on front cover, light natural page-cover browning. Each book individually hand cleaned. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Not Available, Not Available
Date Published: 0000
ISBN-13:9780452008441ISBN:0452008441
Description: Good in Good jacket. See Notes. Gently used paperback. ** PLEASE READ: This book is: HOWE, IRVING: POLITICS AND THE NOVEL This is the book you will receive if you order this item. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Meridian Books
Date Published: 1957
Description: Very Good. 1957 softcover 1st printing stated, a Horizon Press Book, book is very tight, pages are tanning, cover VG+, no crease on spine, slight rubbing & shelfwear to edges, no apparent markings, NOT an xlib copy. read more
Edition: First Printing Thus
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A. New Amererican Library. 1987.
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780452008441ISBN:0452008441
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 273 pp. 8vo. Trade paperback. Interior pages lightly foxing, else spine uncreased, hinges tight, interior clean & unmarked with no remainder marks-in as unread condition-thus VG. (Photo available via e-mail upon request. Bubble wrapped and packaged in boxes. ) read more
Description: PB, Meridian Books and Horizon Press Book, New York, #M46, 1957, first thus. Covers are bright with light edge wear, very tight. Very Good. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: New Amer Library Meridian, New York
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780452008441ISBN:0452008441
Description: Good. No Jacket as Issued. Light wear to the wraps. Page toning. Clean text. Howe examines works by Conrad, James, Malraux, Orwell, Kundear and others. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Horizon Press
Date Published: 1957-01-01
Description: Good. Good hardcover in fair dj. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked; edges tanned. Dust jacket is chipped and torn.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Free Delivery Confirmation! Ships same or next business day! read more
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