This delightfully droll comic novel follows the adventures of Flora Poste, a proper young lady of modern notions, who finds herself alone in the world at the death of her parents. Since she is not yet ready for marriage and… Read More ›
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Analysis of David Lodge’s Changing Places
This first volume of an informal trilogy introduces the recurring settings of Rummidge University and Euphoria State and the characters Philip Swallow, a mild-mannered British professor of English literature, and Morris Zapp, a brash American scholar and literary critic. This… Read More ›
Analysis of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
Dr. Samuel Johnson once claimed that “nothing odd can last.” As an example, he cited Laurence Sterne’s novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, which had temporarily fallen from favor. Over two centuries later, that same novel may well… Read More ›
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