The World and the Book. A Study of Modern Fiction

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Acknowledgements - Notes on the Translations - Preface to the Third Edition - Preface to the Second Edition - Preface to the First Edition - Proust: A Voice in Search of Itself - The World as a Book - Chaucer: 'The Teller and the Tale' - Rabelais: Language and Laughter - Some Thoughts on the Rise of the Novel - Hawthorne: Allegory and Compulsion - Modernism and Romanticism - Lolita: Parody and the Pursuit of Beauty - Herzog: Freedom and Wit - Golding: The Hidden Source - Surfaces and Structures - The World and the Book - Index