A sequel to his history The American Novel, this study by Carl Van Doren surveys the novelists of the first two decades of the twentieth century. He moves from the old style of romance and local colour through the novel of argument and the novel of art to the new realists, weighing writers such as Booth Tarkington and the rising generation that challenged the village and the genteel tradition.
A lively contemporary map of American fiction just as modern American literature was being born. Download the free EPUB.