The complete online text of The English Novel by George Saintsbury.

George Saintsbury was one of the most influential literary critics, along with Leslie Stephen and Edmund Gosse, of the late Victorian era and early twentieth century. In terms of sheer quantity of writing, he surpassed most of his prolific contemporaries...

George Saintsbury's literary output was massive. He wrote nearly fifty books and over eight hundred essays, introductions, and reviews. The actual total remains unknown. Among all these there are only five works that can be classified as biographies as s...

A WRITER raised in a Chinese fishing village has been shortlisted for the Pounds 30,000 Orange Prize for women's fiction. Xiaolu Guo, 33, wrote her firstnovel in English only five years after moving to London. She is up against five other writers,...

Recent literary scholarship has responded to contemporary theoretical pressures in a variety of ways. While most take issue with the interpretive conventions of the recent past, like Tolstoy's unhappy families they do so in their own ways. The range can be great, as...