Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
University of Chicago Press The Triumph of Human Empire Verne Morris and
Book SynopsisIn the early 1600s, in a haunting tale titled New Atlantis, Sir Francis Bacon imagined the discovery of an uncharted island, home to the descendants of the lost realm of Atlantis. The author uses Bacon's island as a jumping-off point to explore the overarching historical event of our time: the rise and triumph of human empire.Trade Review"Engaging, highly informative, and entertaining. Rosalind Williams follows the advice of the authors she discusses-of finding the right balance between factual detail, narrative drive, and human interest-yet presents a strikingly original and timely synthesis of literary history, history of technology, and environmental history." -John Tresch, University of Pennsylvania"
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The University of Chicago Press Making England Western
Book SynopsisThe central argument of Edward Said's Orientalism is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. This book reveals that romanticism provided a way to resist imperial logic about improvement and moral virtue.Trade Review"Saree Makdisi has written a book that in its central line of argument and its detail is thoroughly original and compelling, deeply learned and detailed, erudite and entertaining. His skillful accounts of key romantic writers and detailed knowledge of English social history and place create a vivid picture of social life and conditions that few literary analyses can boast." (David T. Goldberg, University of California, Irvine)"
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Random House USA Inc David Copperfield
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Random House USA Inc Bleak House Vintage Classics
Book SynopsisOne of Charles Dickens’s most critically admired novels, this story of a monumental and life-consuming court case features one of his most vast and varied casts of colorful characters.In Bleak House, competing claims of love and inheritance—complicated by murder—have given rise to a costly and decades-long legal battle that one litigant refers to as “the family curse.” The insidious London fog that rises from the river Thames and seeps into the very bones of the characters symbolizes the pervasive corruption of the legal system and the society that supports it, targets of Dickens’s satirical wrath. Displaying Dickens’s familiar panoramic sweep and brilliant characters—including the mysterious orphan Esther Summerson, her gentle guardian John Jarndyce, the haughty Lady Dedlock, and the scheming lawyer Mr. Tulkinghorn—the novel is also a bold experimental narrative that unforgettably dramatizes our most basic human c
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Hard Times Vintage Classics
Book SynopsisThe shortest of Charles Dickens’s novels, Hard Times is also his most pointed and impassioned satire of social injustice.Set in Coketown, a fictional industrial town in the north of England, Hard Times was born of its author’s indignation at the soul-crushing conditions of the industrial age, and yet it vibrantly transcends the stock situations and polemical weaknesses typical of social protest fiction of the time. The indelible characters—Mr. Gradgrind, whose utilitarian educational philosophy emotionally cripples his own children; the hypocritical factory owner Josiah Bounderby; Stephen Blackpool, an honest worker wrongly accused of a crime; and Sissy Jupe, a circus performer whose father abandons her to what he hopes is a better life—all come alive in classic Dickensian fashion, and contribute to a satiric vision of society tempered equally by righteous anger and compassionate humanity.
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Random House USA Inc Tess of the dUrbervilles
Book SynopsisOne of Thomas Hardy’s most famous novels is the story of an innocent young woman victimized by the double standards of her day.Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Hardy’s early work, Tess of the d’Urbervilles is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love. Hardy poured all of his profound empathy for both humanity and the rhythms of natural life into this story of her beauty, goodness, and tragic fate. In so doing, he created a character who, like Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina, has achieved classic stature.
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WW Norton & Co Ibsens Selected Plays
Book SynopsisIbsen ascended to the first ranks of European writers in the late nineteenth century and has remained there ever since.
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WW Norton & Co The Return of the Native
Book SynopsisThis Second Edition reprints the text of the authoritative 1912 Macmillan Wessex Edition.
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WW Norton & Co Georg Buchner The Major Works
Book SynopsisFew writers have transformed literature and theater so dramatically. Based on Henry J. Schmidt’s translations of The Hessian Messenger, Danton’s Death, Lenz, Leonce and Lena, and Woyzeck.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Acknowledgments The Texts of Büchner’s Major Works The Hessian Messenger Danton’s Death Lenz Leonce and Lena Woyzeck A Reconstruction The Drafts Introduction to On Cranial Nerves (translated by Matthew Wilson Smith) Contexts Selected Letters Karl Vogt • [Impression of the Giessen Student Georg Büchner] Wanted Poster Johann Friedrich Oberlin • From Pastor Oberlin’s Diary Johann Christian August Clarus • From The Legal Accountability of the Murderer Johann Christian Woyzeck Caroline Schulz • From Diary Account of Büchner’s Last Days Criticism GENERAL Herbert Lindenberger • Forebears, Descendants, and Contemporary Kin: Büchner and Literary Tradition Laura Ginters • Georg Büchner—A Selective Stage History The Hessian Messenger Hans Magnus Enzensberger • [The Hessian Messenger in the Political Context of 1964] Victor Brombert • [Büchner and Rhetoric] Danton’s Death Bertolt Brecht • [On Danton’s Death] Edward McInnes • Skepticism, Ideology, and History in Büchner’s Dantons Tod Henry J. Schmidt • Women, Death, and Revolution Accounts of Three Productions Ernst Stern • [On Max Reinhardt’s Danton’s Death] John Houseman • [On Orson Welles’s Danton’s Death] Richard Thomas • Wilson, Danton, and Me Lenz Erika Swales • Büchner, Lenz Leonce and Lena Thomas Bernhard • Leonce and Lena: Tragic Comedy by Georg Büchner Andrew Webber • Büchner, Leonce und Lena Woyzeck Rainer Maria Rilke • [On Woyzeck] George Steiner • [Woyzeck and Lear] John A. McCarthy • Some Aspects of Imagery in Büchner’s Woyzeck John Reddick • Natur and Kunst Peter J. Schwartz • Clarus, Woyzeck, and the Politics of Accountability Four Georg Büchner Prize Talks Paul Celan • The Meridian Christa Wolf • Speaking of Büchner Heiner Müller • The Wounded Woyzeck Durs Grünbein • Breaking the Body Georg Büchner: A Chronology Selected Bibliography
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WW Norton & Co Maggie A Girl of the Streets
Book SynopsisMaggie: A Girl of the Streets was the first major naturalistic novel in America.
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WW Norton & Co David Copperfield
Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition reprints the original 1850 text of Dickens’ most autobiographical novel, and his own personal favorite, including all of the line drawings by Phiz.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to George Eliot. Edited by Amanda
Book SynopsisThis collection offers students and scholars of Eliot s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, reflecting the latest developments in literary criticism.Trade ReviewReview copy sent on 04.04.14 to The Hudson Review "Recommended for general readers, graduate students, researchers and teachers." (Reference Reviews, 1 March 2014) "Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." (Choice, 1 November 2013)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 Amanda Anderson and Harry E. Shaw Part I: Imaginative Form and Literary Context 19 1 Eliot and Narrative 21 Monika Fludernik 2 Metaphor and Masque 35 Michael Wood 3 “It Is of Little Use for Me to Tell You”: George Eliot’s Narrative Refusals 46 Robyn Warhol 4 Surprising Realism 62 Caroline Levine 5 Two Flowers: George Eliot’s Diagrams and the Modern Novel 76 John Plotz Part II: Works 91 6 Scenes of Clerical Life and Silas Marner: Moral Fables 93 Stefanie Markovits 7 Adam Bede: History’s Maggots 105 Rae Greiner 8 The Mill on the Floss and “The Lifted Veil”: Prediction, Prevention, Protection 117 Adela Pinch 9 Romola: Historical Narration and the Communicative Dynamics of Modernity 129 David Wayne Thomas 10 Felix Holt: Love in the Time of Politics 141 David Kurnick 11 Middlemarch: January in Lowick 153 Andrew H. Miller 12 Daniel Deronda: Late Form, or After Middlemarch 166 Alex Woloch 13 Poetry: The Unappreciated Eliot 178 Herbert F. Tucker 14 Essays: Essay v. Novel (Eliot, Aloof) 192 Jeff Nunokawa 15 Impressions of Theophrastus Such: “Not a Story” 204 James Buzard Part III: Life and Reception 217 16 The Reception of George Eliot 219 James Eli Adams 17 George Eliot Among Her Contemporaries: A Life Apart 233 Lynn Voskuil 18 Feminist George Eliot Comes from the United States 247 Alison Booth 19 Transatlantic Eliot: African American Connections 262 Daniel Hack Part IV: Eliot in Her Time and Ours: Intellectual and Cultural Contexts 277 20 Sympathy and the Basis of Morality 279 T. H. Irwin 21 George Eliot, Spinoza, and the Emotions 294 Isobel Armstrong 22 George Eliot and the Law 309 Jan-Melissa Schramm 23 George Eliot and Finance 323 Nancy Henry 24 George Eliot and Politics 338 Carolyn Lesjak 25 Imagining Locality and Affiliation: George Eliot’s Villages 353 Josephine McDonagh 26 George Eliot’s Liberalism 370 Daniel S. Malachuk 27 George Eliot: Gender and Sexuality 385 Laura Green 28 The Cosmopolitan Eliot 400 Bruce Robbins 29 The Continental Eliot 413 Hina Nazar 30 George Eliot and Secularism 428 Simon During 31 Living Theory: Personality and Doctrine in Eliot 442 Amanda Anderson 32 George Eliot and the Sciences of Mind: The Silence that Lies on the Other Side of Roar 457 Jill L. Matus 33 George Eliot and the Science of the Human 471 Ian Duncan 34 Eliot, Evolution, and Aesthetics 486 Jonathan Loesberg Index 500
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The University of Michigan Press The Syntax of Class
Book SynopsisLacking a native language for expressing class differences, American writers in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848 struggled to find social taxonomies to capture apparent inequalities of wealth and power. This study charts the terms through which these writers rendered class distinctions.Trade ReviewLang's ability to move seamlessly between author and character, and her insistence on the relevance of class to both, offer an entirely new window into 19th-century literature. - Women's Review of Books ""Lang reveals how the ever-shifting problems of class identity in the United States can provide sophisticated structures for literary analysis. The result is an extremely well-written, solid, and sensitive work of literary and cultural history."" - Gavin Jones, Stanford University
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The University of Michigan Press American Socialist Triptych
Book SynopsisAmerican Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois explores the contributions of three writers to the development of American socialism over a fiftyyear period and asserts the vitality of socialism in modern American literature and culture. Drawing upon a wide range of texts including archival sources, Mark W. Van Wienen demonstrates the influence of reform-oriented, democratic socialism both in the careers of these writers and in U.S. politics between 1890 and 1940. While offering unprecedented in-depth analysis of modern American socialist literature, this book charts the path by which the supposedly impossible, dangerous ideals of a cooperative commonwealth were realised, in part, by the New Deal. American Socialist Triptych provides in-depth, innovative readings of the featured writers and their engagement with socialist thought and action. Upton Sinclair represents the movement's most visible manifestation, th
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The University of Michigan Press The Novel as Event
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The University of Michigan Press Emotional Reinventions
Book SynopsisFocusing on representational approaches to emotion during the years of American literary realism’s dominance and in the works of such authors as Edith Wharton, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Charles Chesnutt, and others, Emotional Reinventions contends that emotional representations were central to the self-conscious construction of high realism and to the interrogation of its boundaries.
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The University of Michigan Press Changing Hands
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The University of Michigan Press Science Fiction in Argentina
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe analysis, presentation and interdisciplinary connections here are scintillating; the organization and writerly vision superb—as in all of Joanna Page’s work. This critically grounded walk through an eclectic range of cultural products is pursued with grit and panache in equal parts . . . a complex meditation on the many faces of Argentine science fiction.” —Benjamin Fraser, East Carolina University “Beyond its contribution to cultural theory, Science Fiction in Argentina has much to offer media-specific studies of the textuality of comics and cinema.”—Derek Johnson, University of Wisconsin–Madison, author of Media Franchising
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Love and Logic
Book SynopsisLove and logic may seem an unusual pair of concerns, especially for a visionary poet, but author Stephen Cox believes that in William Blake’s work the problems of love and logic evolve together, constantly influencing each other and determining the structure of the poet’s vision.
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The University of Michigan Press Communications with the Future
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The University of Michigan Press Russias Legal Fictions
Book SynopsisTrade Review. . . this informed study of long-ignored areas of Russian culture will appeal to specialists in Russian literature and in the relationship between the humanities and law." —Choice
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The University of Michigan Press Yeats
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Luck of Barry Lyndon
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The University of Michigan Press Yeats
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The University of Michigan Press Yeats
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The University of Michigan Press Yeats
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The University of Michigan Press The Snobs of England and Punchs Prize Novelists
Book SynopsisAn edition of two sharply satirical works, The Snobs of England and Punch's Prize Novelists.
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The University of Michigan Press The Drama of the American Short Story 18001865
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A pleasure to read. . . . Collins’ textual analyses are strong andpersuasive and I was impressed by the energy and depth of knowledgeevinced by the book.” - Sarah Chinn, Hunter College
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Alfred A. Knopf Keats
Book SynopsisA dazzling new look into the short but intense, tragic life and remarkable work of John Keats, one of the greatest lyric poets of the English language, seen in a whole new light, not as the mythologized Victorian guileless nature-lover, but as the subversive, bawdy complex cynic whose life and poetry were lived and created on the edge.In this brief life, acclaimed biographer Lucasta Miller takes nine of Keats's best-known poems—Endymion; On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer; Ode to a Nightingale; To Autumn; Bright Star among them—and excavates how they came to be and what in Keats's life led to their creation. She writes of aspects of Keats's life that have been overlooked, and explores his imagination in the context of his world and experience, paying tribute to the unique quality of his mind. Miller, through Keats’s poetry, brilliantly resurrects and brings vividly to life, the man, the poet in all his complexity and spirit, l
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Random House USA Inc Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Random House USA Inc The Warden
Book SynopsisWhen John Bold decides to challenge corruption in the Church of England he sets the whole town of Barchester by the ears with consequences both comic and sad. Trollope's first masterpiece is the study of conflicting loyalties and principles in a cathedral city where the gentle warden becomes an unwilling focus of national controversy. The resulting story is both a fine comedy of manners and a magnificent group portrait. THE WARDEN is the first novel of the Barsetshire series.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Poems of John Keats
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Portrait of a Lady
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Random House USA Inc Vanity Fair
Book SynopsisA panoramic satire of English society during the Napoleonic Wars, Vanity Fair is William Makepeace Thackeray’s masterpiece. At its center is one of the most unforgettable characters in nineteenth-century literature: the enthralling Becky Sharp, a charmingly ruthless social climber who is determined to leave behind her humble origins, no matter the cost. Her more gentle friend Amelia, by contrast, only cares for Captain George Osborne, despite his selfishness and her family’s disapproval. As both women move within the flamboyant milieu of Regency England, the political turmoil of the era is matched by the scheming Becky’s sensational rise—and its unforeseen aftermath. Based in part upon Thackeray’s own love for the wife of a friend, Vanity Fair portrays the hypocrisy and corruption of high society and the dangers of unrestrained ambition with epic brilliance and scathing wit. With an introduction by Catherine Peters.
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Random House USA Inc Middlemarch A Study of Provincial Life Everymans
Book SynopsisOne of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, Middlemarch is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits. In this epic in a small landscape, Eliot's large cast of precisely delineated characters and the rich tapestry of their stories result in a wise, compassionate, and astute vision of human nature. As Virginia Woolf declared, George Eliot was one of the first English novelists to discover that men and women think as well as feel, and the discovery was of great artistic moment.Introduction by E. S. Shaffer(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
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Random House USA Inc David Copperfield
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Random House USA Inc Far from the Madding Crowd Everymans Library
Book SynopsisFar From the Madding Crowd, published in 1874, is the book that made Hardy famous. Bathsheba Everdene is a prosperous farmer in Hardy’s fictional Wessex county whose strong-minded independence and vanity lead to disastrous consequences for her and the three very different men who pursue her: the obsessed farmer William Boldwood, dashing and seductive Sergeant Frank Troy, and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Despite the violent ends of several of its major characters, Far from the Madding Crowd is the sunniest and least brooding of Hardy’s great novels, as Bathsheba and her suitors move through a beautifully realized late-nineteenth-century agrarian landscape that is still almost untouched by the industrial revolution and the encroachment of modern life. With an introduction by Michael Slater
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Random House USA Inc Great Expectations
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Random House USA Inc Jane Eyre
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Random House USA Inc Plays Prose Writings and Poems of Oscar Wilde
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Alfred A. Knopf Persuasion
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Random House USA Inc Sense and Sensibility
Book SynopsisIn its marvelously perceptive portrayal of two young women in love, Sense and Sensibility is the answer to those who believe that Jane Austen’s novels, despite their perfection of form and tone, lack strong feeling. Its two heroines, Marianne and Elinor—so utterly unlike each other–both undergo the most violent passions when they are separated from the men they love. What differentiates them, and gives this extraordinary book its complexity and brilliance, is the way each expresses her suffering: Marianne–young, impetuous, ardent–falls into paroxysms of grief when she is rejected by the dashing John Willoughby; while her sister, Elinor—wiser, more sensible, more self-controlled—masks her despair when it appears that Edward Ferrars is to marry the mean-spirited and cunning Lucy Steele. All, of course, ends happily—but not until Elinor’s “sense” and Marianne’s “sensibility” have e
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Villette Everymans Library
Book SynopsisLeft by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Charlotte Brontë's last novel, published in 1853, has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as strikingly modern psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness. With an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallet.
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Random House USA Inc Frankenstein
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Random House USA Inc The Moonstone
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Random House USA Inc The Awkward Age Everymans Library Classics
Book SynopsisHenry James had arrived at such mastery of the forms and uses of fiction by the time he published The Awkward Age in 1899 that this story of a young girl introduced into a casually corrupt circle of sophisticates is at once a universal drama of innocence confronting evil, a detailed examination of a social order, and a stunning picture of a civilization in crisis. On the verge of what was to be his greatest period of creativity, James produced, in The Awkward Age, one of the finest, most rounded, and, in some ways, most intimate and revealing of his long string of masterpieces.Introduction by Cynthia Ozick
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Random House USA Inc The Collected Tales And Poems Of Edgar Allan Poe
Book SynopsisEdgar Allan Poe was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters, a genius who was tragically misunderstood in his lifetime. He was a seminal figure in the development of science fiction and the detective story, and exerted a great influence on Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, and Charles Baudelaire, who championed him long before Poe was appreciated in his own country. Baudelaire's enthusiasm brought Poe a wide audience in Europe, and his writing came to have enormous importance for modern French literature. This edition includes his most well-known works--'The Raven,' 'The Pit and the Pendulum,' 'Annabel Lee,' 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'--as well as less-familiar stories, poems, and essays.
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Random House USA Inc David Copperfield
Book SynopsisHugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens''s own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising Dickens''s power of invention, Somerset Maugham wrote: 'There were never such people as the Micawbers, Peggotty and Barkis, Traddles, Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Dick, Uriah Heep and his mother. They are fantastic inventions of Dickens''s exultant imagination...you can never quite forget them.'This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes a new Introduction by Pulitzer Prize finalist David Gates, in addition to new explanatory notes.
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