Edwin Arnold & Robert Hudson 
Encyclopaedia of World Great Novelists (Thomas Hardy) 

The present work is a pioneering effort to highlight life and works of the choicest great English novelists. This work gives a vivid account of their life events and critique of their literary works by various learned commentators on them. Certainly this will be useful and informative for students, researchers and teachers besides the general readers. The volume wise organisation is as follows: o Daniel Defoe o D.H. Lawrence o George Orwell o Jane Austen o Mark Twain o Thomas Hardy o Joseph Conrad o Nathaniel Hawthorne o Graham Greene