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Goethe: Faust Part One

de Nicholas Boyle

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 Nicholas Boyle offers a detailed reading of Faust Part One, as well as a fascinating survey of early versions of the Faust story. He emphasises the poetic and dramatic coherence of the work and traces its links with the thought and culture of Goethe's time.
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Mann: Doctor Faustus

de Michael (University Of Leeds) Beddow

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 In Doctor Faustus, his last major novel, Thomas Mann attempted to interpret and judge Germany's role in European culture and history since the Reformation. In this study, Michael Beddow analyses the chief historical, theological, psychological and musical themes of this complex work, and considers Mann's indebtedness to the Faust tradition, Nietzsche and neo-Marxism.
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Eliot: Middlemarch

de Karen (University Of Virginia) Chase

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 A comprehensive introduction to Middlemarch offering both general information and an original interpretation.
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Cervantes: Don Quixote

de Anthony J. (University Of Cambridge) Close

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 A study of "Don Quixote" in the context of Cervantes' life and literary career, and of the book's cultural and social background. It focuses primarily on the central problems of Cervantine comedy, the use of burlesque, the presentation of characters and the elusive irony.
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Conrad: Nostromo

de Ian Watt

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 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. Ian Watt addresses Conrad's concerns when writing the work, and provides an accessible introduction, taking account of background, history and politics, and reception and influence.
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Rousseau: Confessions

de Peter France

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 Peter France sets the Confessions in the context of Rousseau's life and society, discussing the different aims he set himself, and examining in detail the form and structure of the work.
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Alexander Pushkin: Eugene Onegin

de A. D. P. Briggs

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 This is a lively guide to Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin, a landmark of European romanticism. Professor Briggs stresses the remarkable qualities of the poetry, and considers the form of the work and its poetic techniques in detail.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years Of Solitude

de Michael Wood

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 One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the most important landmark of the so-called 'Boom' in contemporary Latin American fiction. Michael Wood places the novel in the context of modern Colombia's violent history, and helps the reader to explore the rich and complex vision of the world which Garcia Marquez presents in it.
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Emile Zola: L'Assommoir

de David (University Of Western Ontario) Baguley

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 L'Assommoir is analysed as a social and political novel and in the context of its repercussions in the history of the novel.

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James Boswell: The Life Of Johnson

de Greg Clingham

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 This is a radical introduction to the Life of Johnson. It discusses the main structural, dramatic, historical and imaginative aspects of the work, and establishes its intellectual contexts: Hume's philosophy, earlier biographical writings by Boswell, and the French and German Enlightenment and romantic traditions.
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Byron: Don Juan

de Anne (University Of Cambridge) Barton

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 In her introduction to this brilliant and outrageous literary landmark, Anne Barton places Don Juan within the context of Byron's life and reading, and offers an interpretation of the poem which demonstrates its underlying coherence and artistic integrity, despite Byron's mischievous protestations to the contrary.
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Goethe: The Sorrows Of Young Werther

de Martin Swales

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 The tradition of the German novel, before the emergence of its 'classic' writers in the first half of the twentieth century does not have an assured place in the canon of European literature. The one signal exception is Goethe's novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
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Scott: Waverley

de Richard Humphrey

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 Scott's Waverley (1814), set in and around the Jacobite Rising in the Scotland of 1745â€"6, was the first historical novel in world literature. In this study, Richard Humphrey traces and accounts for the text's broad impact on and shows its originality in tackling the manifold issues of rebellion and warfare, separatism and union, prejudice and cultural tolerance.
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The Bible

de Robert Barnes e Stephen Prickett

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 This study focuses on the Bible as a landmark of literature, showing both how it has influenced writers through the ages and how it in turn has been influenced by contemporary literature.
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Sterne: Tristram Shandy

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 Without a beginning and without an end, Tristram Shandy moves in many different directions, defying the conventional expectations of its readers. Wolfgang Iser shows how Sterne exploits the philosophy of his day and its cognitive deficiencies, using digression, humour and play to convey experience of subjectivity, and implicitly to expose the traditional concept of the self.
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Mann: Buddenbrooks

de Hugh Ridley

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 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 not confined to any single literary tradition or genre, and will cumulatively form a substantial library of textbooks on some of the most important and widely read literary masterpieces.
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Virginia Woolf: The Waves

de Virginia Woolf e Warner

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 Eric Warner places The Waves in the context of Virginia Woolf's career and of the 'modern' age in which it was written. He examines how she came to write the novel, what her concerns were at the time, and how it is linked both in style and theme with her earlier, more accessible works.
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Proust: Swann'S Way

de Sheila Stern

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 Aimed at students of all levels this series attempts to provide companions to key works of world literature. This volume examines "Swann's Way" which forms the first part of Proust's seven-part novel, "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu".
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Swift: Gulliver'S Travels

de Howard Erskine-Hill

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 This is a critical introduction that gives a fresh and impartial account of the world-famous satire. It explores the historical and literary backgrounds, Swift's narrative and stylistic art and discusses the the relation of the four parts of the Travels to one another.
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Galdos: Fortunata And Jacinta

de Harriet S. Turner

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 In this new critical introduction, Professor Turner provides information on the history and social life of Madrid in the 1870s. The setting of the novel, and analyzes Galdos' theory of realism and his rich narrative style.
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Dickens: Bleak House

de Graham Storey

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 Graham Storey explores Dickens' vital engagement with the social and political issues of his study of his day, and shows how these are reflected in the plot and characterization of Bleak House. He also assesses the surprisingly varied reception this great novel has had, and places it in the overall context of European literature.
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Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov

de William J. Leatherbarrow

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 This textbook series provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. This book will have a a full account of its historical, cultural, and intellectual background, a discussion of its influence, and a guide to further reading.
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Baudelaire: Les Fleurs Du Mal

de F. W. (University Of London) Leakey

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 Les Fleurs du mal owes its 'landmark' status to the sheer aesthetic quality of its verses. Professor Leakey provides a comprehensive guide to understanding the poems and their context and a detailed account of Le Cygne.
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Flaubert: Madame Bovary

de Stephen C. (Jesus College, Cambridge) Heath

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 Stephen Heath shows how Madame Bovary with its questioning of the value of marriage and the role of women captures and articulates the experience of the post-romantic commercial-industrial, democratic period.
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