This up-to-date account of the novel's composition, structure, and achievement provides readers with the literary and historical knowledge needed to make sense of the text. …
Professor ThorIby offers a close reading of this classic novel and explores the subtle psychology in Tolstoy’s characterisation. He avoids complex terminology and assumes a …
This book offers a concise introduction to Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan. The work is approached both through its context and through a close reading of key passages of the …
Galdos's four-part Fortunata and Jacinta (1886–7), the masterpiece among his almost 80 novels, tells the turbulent story of two women, their husbands and their lovers, set against …
Graham Storey explores Dickens’s vital engagement with some of the most intractable social and political issues of his day, and shows how these are reflected in the plot and …
Madame Bovary was one of the most influential literary achievements of the nineteenth century and gained immediate notoriety through its questioning of marriage, sex, and the role …
This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. It is …
This book offers a fresh approach to Hardy's novel, highlighting its modern qualities. Dale Kramer re-examines the main characters and investigates Hardy's handling of the plot and …
Conrad's great novel is a rich study not only of a typical South American country, but of the politics of any underdeveloped country, and for this reason it is permanently topical. …
In Boccaccio’s innovative text, ten young people leave Florence to escape the Black Death of 1348, and organize their collective life in the countryside through the pleasure and …
