Book description
This series is designed to provide the student of literature and general reader with a brief and helpful introduction to the major novelists and prose writers in English, American and foreign literature.
Each volume will provide an account of an individual author’s writing career and works, through a series of carefully chosen extracts of the auhtor’s art. These extracts are accompanied by commentary and analysis, drawing attention to particular features of the style and treatment. This selective approach enables the reader to focus his attention upon spicific features, and to be informed in his own approach by experienced critics and scholars.
