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  • Dickens and the Twentieth Century (RLE Dickens)

    Routledge Library Editions: Charles Dickens Volume 6

    Edited by John Gross, Gabriel Pearson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Charles Dickens
    The essays in this volume examine questions such as Dickens’ symbolism, his political attitudes, his psychological tensions and his artistry. They are also concerned with aspects of Dickens which have been neglected in recent years, such as his handling of plot, his heroes and heroines, his journalism, his religious view and his philistinism. ... Read more

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  • Aspects of the Novel

    by E. M. Forster ...
    The renowned British novelist's "casual and wittily acute guidance" on reading—and writing—great fiction ( Harper's Magazine).Renowned for such classics as A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India, E. M. Forster was one of Britain's—and the world's—most distinguished fiction writers, a frequent nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In this collection of lectures delivered at ... Read more

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  • The Mystery of Charles Dickens

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    Winner, Plutarch Award for Best Biography: A "marvelous exploration" of Dickens's life and how it shaped his extraordinarily popular novels ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).An exceedingly rare talent and great orator, slight of build with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Charles Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died—an occasion marked by a crowded funeral at ... Read more

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  • The Art of Fiction

    by Henry James ...
    Classic essay from the collection "Partial Portraits". According to Wikipedia: "Partial Portraits is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1888. The book collected essays that James had written over the preceding decade, mostly on English and American writers. But the book also offered treatments of Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant and Ivan Turgenev. Perhaps the most important ... Read more

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  • The Great Tradition

    George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad

    by F. R. Leavis ...
    'The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.'So begins F. R. Leavis's most controversial book, The Great Tradition, an uncompromising critical-polemical survey of English fiction, first published in 1948. Leavis makes his case for moral seriousness as the necessary criterion for an author's inclusion in any list of the finest novelists. In the course ... Read more

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  • The Things That Matter

    What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life

    by Edward Mendelson ...
    She felt rather inclined just for a moment to stand still after all that chatter, and pick out one particular thing; the thing that mattered . . .—Virginia Woolf, To The LighthouseAn illuminating exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Between the ... Read more

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  • The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

    by Henry James ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master's dissolute valet, and he has come for little Miles. But Peter Quint is dead. Like the other tales collected here - `Sir Edmund Orme', `Owen ... Read more

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  • The Violent Effigy

    A Study of Dickens' Imagination

    by John Carey ...
    An exploration of the strange poetry of Dickens's imagination by leading academic and critic John Carey.Setting aside the usual interpretations of Dickens's work, A Violent Effigy delves into the wonderful, terrible fantasy world it inhabited. It shows Dickens torn between the appeal of violence and a fanatical orderliness: he was attracted by characters who commit murder or burst into flame or ... Read more

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  • The Dickens Dictionary

    An A-Z of Britain's Greatest Novelist

    by Jon Sutherland ...
    For fans new and old, an enjoyable tour through the world of Dickens in the hands of a master critic. Charles Dickens, the 'Great Inimitable', created a riotous fictional world that still lives and breathes for thousands of readers today. But how much do we really know about the dazzling imagination that brought all this into being?For the bicentenary of Dickens' birth, Victorian literature expert ... Read more

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  • Dickens

    by Gilbert Keith Chesterton ...
    The book analyzes all the works of the great author; here Dickens is seen as one of the greatest novelists. Chesterton does not view Dickens as the product of English Puritan society. A brilliant work that captures the essence of Dickens' work and helps the reader in understanding them. ... Read more

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  • Is Heathcliff a Murderer?

    Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

    by Jon Sutherland ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER IN A BRAND NEW EDITION'Enchanting...the most engagingly boffiny book imaginable.' SpectatorDoes Becky kill Jos at the end of Vanity Fair? Why does no one notice that Hetty is pregnant in Adam Bede? How, exactly, does Victor Frankenstein make his monster?Readers of Victorian fiction often find themselves tripping up on seeming anomalies, enigmas and mysteries in their ... Read more

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  • Dickens by Chesterton (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Critical Study, Biography, Appreciations & Criticisms of the Works by Charles Dickens

    by G. K. Chesterton, Owen Fenlow ...
    In Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. Chesterton offers not a conventional biography but a vigorous critical portrait of Charles Dickens as moral visionary, comic dramatist, and defender of ordinary humanity. Written in Chesterton's characteristically paradoxical, aphoristic, and exuberant prose, the book situates Dickens within Victorian literature while resisting merely academic classification. ... Read more

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