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RR/99/23 Cambridge Guide to Fiction in English Ian Ousby Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1998 vill + 323 pp. ISBN 0 521 63168 6 (hardback); 0 521 57617 2 (paperback) L24.95 ($44.95) (hardback); L11.95 ($18.95) (paperback)
Keywords England, Literature
For everyone interested in fiction written in English this is just what the doctor ordered. The bulk of the book, over 275 pages in fact, is given over to entries in dictionary order starting with Aaron's Rod and ending with Zuleika Dobson. It so happens that both these books were written in England by English authors, but Ian Ousby's coverage includes novels and novelists from all countries where English is written, whether it be Britain and Ireland, the countries of the Commonwealth,...