The approach coupled with the scope (covering, as it does, a huge swath of time) results in maybe the most complete history of the novel in English ever produced.
Over at The Millions, Jonathan Russell Clark reviews “The Novel: a Biography” by Michael Schmidt, and inevitably his review turns into a noteworthy essay on writing and prose.
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