She later said that, in the process of writing this book, she talked herself into writing an old-fashioned novel.

But overall she was impressed with the book, saying that it is "a big, old-fashioned novel in the best sense".

"The New City" is a relentlessly old-fashioned novel - a big, realistic narrative in which people in high positions are brought low.

Luka's character seems to have travelled from an old-fashioned novel.

In the literature of another time and place, in "the old-fashioned, Freudian, psychological novel," Stephen may have had a chance at heroism.

Soulful and unworldly - a sort of holy fool - he could be the hero of an old-fashioned linear novel in less chaotic times.

Anyhow, somebody must have read old-fashioned novels some time, to know about it.

Despite its setting, The Age of Innocence is not an old-fashioned novel.

I say "seems," since biographies of living writers are second only to autobiographies in their fictional affinities to the old-fashioned novel.

An old-fashioned coming-of-age novel, set in northern Vermont from the late 1940's onward.