How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form by Thomas C. Foster

How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form

Thomas C. Foster

312 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction education informative reflective slow-paced
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Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today's masters, the novel has grown with an...

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