The Novel In India. Its Birth And Development.

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: University Of California Press
Publisher Place: Berleley
Publisher Year:
Edition: First Edition

Description: 239 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. Literature In Some Of The Modern Languages Of India And Pakistan Goes Back To The Eleventh Century, And A Rich Literature It Was. All Of It However Was Composed In Verse. Literary Prose Writing, Including Fiction, Did Ot Appear Until The Nineteenth Century, By Which Time The European Novel Had Begun To Make Its Impact In Indian Educated Circles.

Publishers Description: This book contains six essays tracing the history of prose fiction in Bengali, Marathi, Urdu, Hindi, Tamil, and Malayalam. Book edges lightly faded with damp stain on tail edge of lower board. Price clipped, jacket tanned and soiled, damp stain on tail edge of lower flap. 239+ 1 pages. paper-covered boards, top edge purple, dust jacket. 8vo..

ISBN: 0520017250