The English Novel Asia Winner of the 2021 Kamaladevi

Winner of the 2021 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay–NIF Book Prize

Vera was made for vengeance

and a bone-filled body of water known as Sad Clown Lake

Morgan Puett

he approaches the best merchant he knows

The English Novel Asia Winner of the 2021 KamaladeviThis book provides a wide ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day. Following the model of his hugely popular Literary Theory: An Introduction, Terry Eagleton starts by distilling the essentials of the theory of the novel, summarizing what has been written on the genre by a range of prominent theorists. There then follows a series of chapters on major novelists, including Daniel Defoe,