{"product_id":"9780008599096_100-novels-that-changed-the-world","title":"100 Novels That Changed the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA look at 100 inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBefore the novel, the world of books was dominated by scientific tomes, religious tracts and histories of the victorious in war.\u003c\/strong\u003e There had been stories and epic poems from ancient times – Homer’s\u003cem\u003e Iliad \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e recounted ancient Greece, and \u003cem\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight \u003c\/em\u003ewas a chivalric romance in Middle English, but it was not until the seventeenth century, when the European middle classes had money and leisure, that anything so frivolous as a novel could be sold for entertainment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eColin Salter traces the evolution of the novel from the earliest examples through to the postmodernist best-sellers of the 21st century. \u003c\/strong\u003eRather than dwelling too long on the technical nuances of innovative writing style he has amassed 100 of the greatest novel writers and chosen their most significant work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor writers such as Herman Melville, James Joyce or Harper Lee the decision is not a difficult one. For Charles Dickens, Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood, the choice is perhaps more difficult.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the style set with previous books in the 100 series, most notably \u003cem\u003e100 Children’s Books\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e100 Science Discoveries\u003c\/em\u003e, each author is given a concise biography and their major novel analysed and then set in context with their other published work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders can become ridiculously well-read in 224 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthors included:\u003c\/strong\u003e Alexandre Dumas, Daniel Defoe, Victor Hugo, Mary Shelly, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Hilary Mantel, Jane Austen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, Lewis Carroll, JRR Tolkien, Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust, Henry James, Harper Lee, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker, Jules Verne, HG Wells, Virginia Woolf, Leo Tolstoy, Louisa M. Alcott, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, John Steinbeck, CS Lewis, Chinua Achebe, Jack Kerouac, John Le Carre, Arundhati Roy, Mila Kundera, Joseph Heller, JD Salinger, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Miguel Cervantes, Graham Greene, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Evelyn Waugh, Robert Graves, Daphne du Maurier, Agatha Christie, PG Wodehouse, Raymond Chandler, Hunter S. Thompson, Khaled Hosseini.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Colin Salter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47285722120341,"sku":"9780008599096","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008599096.jpg?v=1776992191","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008599096_100-novels-that-changed-the-world","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}