The Modern American Novel

New York, NY: Penguin Books. Near Fine. 1994. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Paperback. First Edition Thus (1994) ; First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Taken from the Second, Revised hardcover edition published in 1992 by Oxford University Press. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows a faint crease near the upper front corner tip; the expected light tanning to the text pages due to aging; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing minor, unobtrusive imperfections. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Very close to "As New". 8vo. (7.75 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches) . Language: English. Weight: 9 ounces. Trade Paperback. Sir Malcolm Bradbury, CBE (1932 – 2000) was a productive academic writer as well as a successful teacher; an expert on the modern novel, he published books on Evelyn Waugh, Saul Bellow and E. M. Forster, as well as editions of such modern classics as F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and a number of surveys and handbooks of modern fiction, both British and American. In 'The Modern American Novel', Bradbury begins with the 1890s and the seminal novels of Henry James and Theodore Dreiser, this highly acclaimed volume charts the flowering of the American narrative tradition. It takes in Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner; the emergence of Jewish and African-American literatures; and the works of Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, and Kurt Vonnegut. Updated to consider the most important fiction of the 1980s and early ’90s, The Modern American Novel is a comprehensive critical history of American literary achievement. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; xi, 329 pages .