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Virginia Woolf
Romancing the East
Other solitudes
Imperial Eyes
China's avant-garde fiction
Hybrid fictions
Indian classics - Gujarati
Fire and power
The Fiction of Martin Amis
A reader's manifesto
Imagination at war
Framing feeling
Major characters in American fiction
From the Lighthouse to Monk's House
Recasting autobiography
The creative present
On native grounds
Revolutions in writing
The Postmodernist allegories of Thomas Pynchon
The Art of Walker Percy
Romantic illusions
The politics and poetics of journalistic narrative
The Image of the prostitute in modern literature
Modern Australian prose, 1901-1975
A book of English prose, 1700-1914
A fine silver thread
Domesticity with a difference
Realism and power
Reconstructing Beckett
The Arab in Hebrew prose, 1911-1948
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