| Description |
1 online resource (600 pages) |
| Series |
Gale eBooks
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Alchemist (Ben Jonson) -- Arcadia (Tom Stoppard) -- Canterbury tales (Geoffrey Chaucer) -- Emma (Jane Austen) -- Great expectations (Charles Dickens) -- Gulliver's travels (Jonathan Swift) -- Heart of darkness (Joseph Conrad) -- Holy sonnets (John Donne) -- Importance of being Earnest (Oscar Wilde) -- Kim (Rudyard Kipling) -- Man and superman (George Bernard Shaw) -- Middlemarch (George Eliot) -- Portrait of the artist as a young man (James Joyce) -- Prelude (William Wordsworth) -- Rape of the lock (Alexander Pope) -- Return of the native (Thomas Hardy) -- Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) -- Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne) -- Utopia (Thomas More) -- Wuthering heights (Emily Bronte). |
| Summary |
Covers some of the most influential works of British literature. Provides individual works, including The Canterbury Tales, Emma, Great Expectations, Wuthering Heights, The Importance of Being Earnest, Utopia and Gulliver's Travels, exploring the themes, characterization, use of language and other nuances of these pieces of literature. |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Parini, Jay, editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: British writers classics, Volume I. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002 9780684312538 |
| ISBN |
9780684316314 (electronic book) |
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9780684312538 |
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0684312530 |
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