Encyclopedic in scope, and coming in at over 1,000 pages, yet comfortably readable. This award-winning tome is a sequel to Moore's previous work on the world's earliest novels. Here, he examines over 400 novels in the period of the flowering of the art form. Most of us know about the classics in the English language. Moore tells us about Chinese, Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Korean, Tibetan, Persian, Indian, and eccentric English, earliest American, and other  novels we may otherwise not encounter. With a chronological index of the novels discussed and very useful index.  Like New condition. Bloomsbury Academic. 2013. Hb, Dj. USED. $20.00