The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture, New Edition
“A short, brilliant, provocative and often entertainingly upbeat book.”—New Society“A pointed example of the nature of youth, as represented in the novels of Austen, Balzac, Dickens, Eliot, Flaubert, Goethe and Stendhal ... [Moretti] is undoubtedly a brilliant and searching critic.”—Independent