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Editorials
British Book News
Miller is a beautifully elegant writer, and one of this generation's most penetrating literary analysts. [This] is easily the most important book on fiction in a decade.
Modern Fiction Studies
A very important contribution to contemporary critical thought.
New York Times Book Review
[This] book does what good criticism must do: reanimate familiar texts by asking contemporary questions of them, thus clarifying the texts and deepening their mysteries Professor Miller's fascinating play of concepts will win new readers for these novels and send others back to explore the mysteries they missed on the last reading.