books.google.com - No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels written in the English language, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. In the spirit of Dr. Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, acclaimed critic and scholar John Sutherland selects 294 writers whose...http://books.google.com/books/about/Lives_of_the_Novelists.html?id=aV9ot7kGdi4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareLives of the Novelists
