Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

With its complex structure, Anna Karenina places special demands on readers who must follow multiple plotlines and...  Read More >>

Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1964) and its accompanying Commentary, along with Ada, or Ardor...  Read More >>

Presents the startling thesis that many of Kafka’s major works engage in a coherent, sustained meditation on racial...  Read More >>

A critical biography of the novelist and champion for mental health issues  Read More >>

Critics in this volume reassess the prescient nature of Richard Wright's mind as well as his life and body of writings,...  Read More >>

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels,...  Read More >>

Kim tells the story of Kimball O'Hara, an orphaned Irish boy growing up in nineteenth-century India, and his quest...  Read More >>

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In Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain leading scholars approach the letter from different disciplinary...  Read More >>

In this book, Michael Toolan explores the textual/grammatical nature of fictional narratives, critically re-examining...  Read More >>

A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters in an abridged...  Read More >>

Incorporating wide-scale research and focused case studies from among the most striking or prevalent uses of olfactory...  Read More >>

A Fable for Critics from James Russell Lowell. American literary critic, editor, poet, and diplomat (1819-1891)....  Read More >>

Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect....  Read More >>

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James Fenimore Cooper and Cormac McCarthy are two of the most celebrated and influential writers of the American...  Read More >>

They told him it was just a parasite... Jack Fuller's life took a swan dive after he cheated on his wife two years...  Read More >>

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First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the...  Read More >>

First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the...  Read More >>

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First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the...  Read More >>

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