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How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form

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The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor-a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and fun

Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today's masters, the novel has grown with and adapte...

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