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 Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds
Written as the first-person narration of a Dublin student who relishes multiple approaches to the representation of reality, this antirealistic novel presents a narrator living with an insufferably conventional uncle. The young man has reason to resent his uncle’s inquisitiveness:… Read More ›
Analysis of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela
Long touted as the first English novel, or at the least the first epistolary novel, Samuel Richardson’s Pamela has since had both those positions questioned in light of work by earlier writers, most notably Aphra Behn. It remains of extreme… Read More ›
Analysis of Robert S. Hichens’s The Green Carnation
When Robert S. Hichens published his roman à clef, or novel with a key, The Green Carnation, he joined others in mimicking the famous style of Oscar Wilde, arguably England’s best-known writer at the end of the 19th century. Wilde,… Read More ›
Analysis of Charles Reade’s Christie Johnstone
While not considered among Charles Reade’s major works, Christie Johnstone provides a delightful insight into his sense of humor. Not only does the novel’s subject matter entertain, but its format also proves of interest, as Reade designed some chapters as… Read More ›
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