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Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- On The Novel -- Part 2.1. The Long Duration -- The Novel in Search of Itself: A Historical Morphology -- Epic, Novel -- The Poetry of Mediocrity -- The Experiments of Time: Providence and Realism -- Readings: Prototypes -- Aethiopika (Heliodorus, Third or Fourth Century) -- Maqāmāt (Hamadhānī, Late Tenth Century) -- Lazarillo de Tormes ("Lázaro de Tormes," circa 1553) -- Le Grand Cyrus (Madeleine de Scudéry, 1649-1653) -- Persian Letters (Montesquieu, 1721) -- Waverley (Walter Scott, 1814) -- The Mysteries of Paris (Eugène Sue, 1842-1843) -- The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells, 1898) -- The Kingdom of This World (Alejo Carpentier, 1949) -- Part 2.2. Writing Prose -- Forms of the Supernatural in Narrative -- The Prose of the World -- Excess and History in Hugo's Ninety-three -- Minor Characters -- Toward a Database of Novelistic Topoi -- Part 2.3. Themes, Figures -- The Fiction of Bourgeois Morality and the Paradox of Individualism -- The Death of Lucien de Rubempré -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Social Climber: Upward Mobility in the Novel -- A Businessman in Love -- Readings: Narrating Politics -- Max Havelaar (Multatuli, 1860) -- The Tiger of Malaysia (Emilio Salgari, 1883-1884) -- Ah Q (Lu Hsün, 1921-1922) -- Cement (Fedor Gladkov, 1925) -- A Private Matter (Beppe Fenoglio, 1963) -- Arrow of God (Chinua Achebe, 1964) -- Conversation in the Cathedral (Mario Vargas Llosa, 1969) -- The Aesthetics of Resistance (Peter Weiss, 1975-1981) -- Readings: The Sacrifice of the Heroine -- Aloisa and Melliora (Love in Excess, Eliza Haywood, 1719-1720) -- Natasha and Hélène (War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1863-1869) -- Nana (Nana, Émile Zola, 1880) -- Tess (Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy, 1891) -- Elsie (The Dangerous Age, Karin Michaëlis, 1910) -- Part 2.4. Space and Story.
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