Author: Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited
ISBN: 9326191974
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Persuasion and Northanger Abbey
Author: Jane AustenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781986942386
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Persuasion:For her last novel's plot, Austen returns to the tensions of inheritance; but the once satisfactory solution-security on a landed estate-no longer applies. Here, Anne, the unappreciated middle daughter of the Elliots, has new choices to make, between the customs and traditions in which she was brought up and the excitement of the unknown.Northanger Abbey:Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life of its na ve but sweetly appealing heroine, Catherine Morland, a willing victim of the contemporary craze for Gothic literature who is determined to see herself as the heroine of a dark and thrilling romance.
A Truth Universally Acknowledged
Author: C. S. LewisPublisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812980018
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Why are we so fascinated with Jane Austen’s novels? Why is Austen so universally beloved? The essayists in this volume offer their thoughts on the delightful puzzle of Austen’s popularity. Classic and contemporary writers—novelists, essayists, journalists, scholars, and a filmmaker—discuss the tricks and treasures of Austen’s novels, from her witty dialogue, to the arc and sweep of her story lines, to her prescriptions for life and love. Virginia Woolf examines Austen’s maturation as an artist and speculates on how her writing would have changed had she lived another twenty years, while Anna Quindlen examines the enduring issues of social pressure and gender politics that make Pride and Prejudice as vital today as ever. From Harold Bloom to Martin Amis, Somerset Maugham to Jay McInerney, Eudora Welty to Amy Bloom, each writer reflects on Austen’s place in both the literary canon and our cultural imagination.
The Novels of Jane Austen: Persuasion
Author: Jane AustenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited
ISBN: 9326191974
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
The Appearance of Print in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Author: Christopher FlintPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113950150X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Eighteenth-century fiction holds an unusual place in the history of modern print culture. The novel gained prominence largely because of advances in publishing, but, as a popular genre, it also helped shape those very developments. Authors in the period manipulated the appearance of the page and print technology more deliberately than has been supposed, prompting new forms of reception among readers. Christopher Flint's book explores works by both obscure 'scribblers' and canonical figures, such as Swift, Haywood, Defoe, Richardson, Sterne and Austen, that interrogated the complex interactions between the book's material aspects and its producers and consumers. Flint links historical shifts in how authors addressed their profession to how books were manufactured and how readers consumed texts. He argues that writers exploited typographic media to augment other crucial developments in prose fiction, from formal realism and free indirect discourse to accounts of how 'the novel' defined itself as a genre.
All That Was Possible
Author: Howard Overing SturgisPublisher: Mondial
ISBN: 1595691294
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Howard Sturgis' "All That Was Possible" is a successful psychologic study. Here is one "Mrs." Sibyl Crofts, who discreetly retires to a Welsh countryside after her London "past." She meets Robert Henshaw, a rigidly conventional squireen belonging to the neighborhood. At first he shows open hostility to Sibyl, a beautiful and charming woman, yet, as in time they become closely acquainted, Henshaw, though knowing her history, falls to her fascinations ... (The American Monthly Review of Reviews) --- Howard Overing Sturgis has has handled his subject with great skill and delicacy and with a remorseless logic that compels the reader to recognize the outcome as inevitable. The story is told in the form of letters, which can be used by a clever writer with excellent results. The letters, all written by Sibyl, are used as a vehicle for conveying facts, not as a medium for revealing character. The book is extremely interesting. It is so devoid of any preaching, yet so logical in its conclusions, that no thoughtful person can read it without acquiescing in the lesson it so quietly inculcates.(M. K. Ford; The Critic)
The Victorian Novel
Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0791076784
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Victorian England produces some the the greatest novelists in Western history, including Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot. Critical analysis focuses on the development of the Victorian novel through the second half of the 19th century.
Jane Austen in Context
Author: Janet M. ToddPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521826440
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
A lively illustrated collection of short essays on a wide range of aspects of Austen's life, work and times.
Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)
Author: Jane AustenPublisher: Mondial
ISBN: 1595691154
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This anthology contains two of Austen's works, "Persuasion" and "Northanger Abbey."
Trials and Tribulations. A Berlin Novel (Irrungen, Wirrungen) (German Classics)
Author: Theodor FontanePublisher: Mondial
ISBN: 1595691251
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The gentle melancholy of two people coming together in a way which can never lead to full satisfaction, the quiet tragedy of a separation not forced by external powers but by the constant pressure of circumstances-this is what sounds through this splendid story. "Trials and Tribulations" is built entirely on this motive. An honest sturdy young officer and a decent pretty girl get to know each other on an excursion. Unconsciously they drift into a relation where heart meets heart, the breaking of which causes the deepest pain. But both see clearly from the beginning that there is no other end. For they know that the world is stronger than the individual, and the many small moments than the one supreme. They know it, for they are, like their creator, resigned realists. They shut their eyes only in order not to see the end too near. (Richard M. Meyer)---The interest of Fontane's novels lies rather in character than in action. While he portrays many types characteristic of Berlin and the surrounding region, and is very successful in rendering local color and the atmosphere of the particular circle described in each book, his penetration into universal human nature is sufficiently deep to raise him far above provincialism. His effort is to represent people vividly and naturally in their normal relations, not to strain after sensational or even dramatic situations. "Trials and Tribulations" ("Irrungen Wirrungen", 1887) gives an excellent idea of his power. In a gently moving story, told without the forcing of emotion or the contriving of exciting scenes, he deals with the pathos of the relation between a man and a woman, alike in an attractive simplicity of character, but forced apart by difference of rank. The situation is laid before us without expressed censure or protest, and is allowed to have its effect by the sober truth of its presentation. Fontane's is an honest and sincere art, none the less great because unpretentious. (W.A.N.)
