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<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD>Preface: Novel Possibilities, or All Animals Aren't Pigs? xiii</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>Introduction: Once Upon a Time: A Short, Chaotic, and Entirely Idiosyncratic History of the Novel</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>1</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>1 Pickup Lines and Open(ing) Seductions, or Why Novels Have First Pages</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>21</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>2 You Can't Breathe Where the Air Is Clear</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>37</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>3 Who's in Charge Here?</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>45</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>4 Never Trust a Narrator with a Speaking Part</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>56</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>5 A Still, Small Voice (or a Great, Galumphing One)</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>67</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>6 Men (and Women) Made out of Words, or My Pip Ain't Like Your Pip</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>80</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>7 When Very Bad People Happen to Good Novels</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>89</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>8 Wrinkles in Time, or Chapters Just Might Matter</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>99</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>9 Everywhere Is Just One Place</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>109</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>10 Clarissa's Flowers</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>117</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>11 Met-him-pike-hoses</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>131</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>12 Life Sentences</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>145</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>13 Drowning in the Stream of Consciousness</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>160</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>14 The Light on Daisy's Dock</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>172</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>15 Fiction About Fiction</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>182</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>16 Source Codes and Recycle Bins</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>197</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Interlude: Read with Your Ears</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>213</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>17 Improbabilities: Foundlings and Magi, Colonels and Boy Wizards</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>227</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>18 What's the Big Idea��or Even the Small One?</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>239</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>19 Who Broke My Novel?</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>250</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>20 Untidy Endings</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>264</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>21 History in the Novel/The Novel in History</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>279</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>22 Conspiracy Theory</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>291</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Conclusion: The Never-Ending Journey</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>303</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Reading List: Criticism of the Novel</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>309</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE>

In his first book, "How to Read Literature Like a Professor," Foster led readers through the symbolic codes of literature. Now he presents this lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and fun

How to read novels like a professor