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Critical Guide to Herman Melville's Moby Dick by Nick Selby
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On its publication in 1851, Moby-Dick baffled and enthralled readers and critics on both sides of the Atlantic. Hailed by some as a work of genius and the first truly American novel, it was dismissed by others as the ravings of a madman. It has since become widely accepted as a masterpiece that anticipa ...Show more
Critical Guide to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer by Stuart Hutchinson
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In this Readers' Guide, Stuart Hutchinson analyses the most significant writings on Twain's great works. Moving from a discussion of the novels' early reception, the Guide explores late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century criticism by T.S. Eliot, Van Wyck Brooks, Bernard De Voto, Booker T. Washingto ...Show more
Critical Guide to Shakespeare's Richard II by Martin Coyle
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In this Readers' Guide, Martin Coyle provides students with guidance to the ways in which this play has been received by audiences, critics and academics since its first production. Beginning with a discussion of early commentaries, the Guide steers a clear path through the huge body of critical materia ...Show more
D. H. Lawrence - The Rainbow-Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence; Richard Beynon (Editor)
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In this Readers' Guide, Richard Beynon explores some of the most significant critical material to have been written about these novels since their publication in 1915 and 1920. The book provides readers with a clear introduction to Lawrence's place in literary studies, and offers a comprehensive account ...Show more
E. M. Forster - A Passage to India by E. M. Forster; Betty Jay (Editor)
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In this Readers' Guide, Betty Jay considers the establishment of Forster's reputation and the various attempts of critics to decipher the complex codes that are a feature of his novel. Successive chapters focus on debates around Forster's liberal-humanism, with essays from F. R. Leavis, Lionel Trilling ...Show more
Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton-North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Alison Chapman (Editor)
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In this Readers' Guide, Alison Chapman introduces and discusses the patterns of critical attention that Gaskell's work has attracted across the past hundred and fifty years. Beginning with contemporary press and critical reviews, and treatments by the Victorian and early twentieth-century literary estab ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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Heart of DarknessBy Joseph ConradHeart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the heart of Africa.[1] Charles Marlow, the narrator, tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. This ...Show more
Icon Critical Guides - The Wasteland by T. S. Eliot
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In this Readers' Guide, Nick Selby brings together some of the most important critical writings about The Waste Land and provides a clear discussion of their place within the development of critical theory from modernism to postmodernism. The Guide begins with early reviews and discussions from the 1920 ...Show more
King Lear by William Shakespeare
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King Lear by William Shakespeare her worth. In my true heart I find she names my very deed of love; Only she comes too short, --that I profess Myself an enemy to all other joys Which the most precious square of sense possesses, And find I am alone felicitate In your dear highness' love.
Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Themes: Hi-Lo, adapted classics, low level classics. Hester Prynne must be punished. Why won't she name her baby's father? The vengeful Puritans of Boston demand an answer. Can the new doctor in town unlock the mystery of the shameful secret? Hester's gentle pastor seems unable- or unwilling- to give he ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Great Gatsby, the third book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is the tried discovery of his artery. Published for first succession in 1925, this novel by celsitud of the era of jazz has been acclaimed by gestations of professors. The description of the mysteriously rich Jay Gatsby and his attachment to the b ...Show more
Virginia Woolf to the Lighthouse/the Waves by Icon Books
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In this Readers' Guide, Jane Goldman explores critical material on To the Lighthouse and The Waves, two of Woolf's most important novels. The reader is guided through the critical debates that have centred on the novels, and is given a clear view of the widening scope of 'Woolf Studies'. The Guide inclu ...Show more