The Literature Book

179 See also: Eugene Onegin 124 ■ A Hero of Our Time 151–52 ■ Dead Souls 152 ■ Crime and Punishment 172 –7 7 ■ The Idiot 199 ■ A ...

180 Within a single life span, Russian literature had made a series of incredible leaps from a folkloric tradition to far more c ...

181 The Battle of Borodino is a key moment in Tolstoy’s War and Peace. In his account, it is the chaos of battle, rather than th ...

182 IT IS A NARROW MIND WHICH CANNOT LOOK AT A SUBJECT FROM VARIOUS POINTS OF VIEW MIDDLEMARCH (1871–1872), GEORGE ELIOT T he om ...

183 See also: Pride and Prejudice 118–19 ■ The Three Musketeers 122–23 ■ Vanity Fair 153 ■ Les Misérables 166 – 67 ■ Crime and P ...

184 See also: Frankenstein 120–21 T he term “scientific romance” originated in the 19th century to describe speculative writings ...

185 See also: Bleak House 146–49 ■ On the Road 264–65 ■ The Bell Jar 290 ■ Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 332 T he roman à clef, ...

186 SHE IS WRITTEN IN A FOREIGN TONGUE THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY (1881), HENRY JAMES M uch has been made of the supposed psychologi ...

187 See also: The Turn of the Screw 203 ■ Lolita 260–61 DEPICTING REAL LIFE World values are most starkly played out. Isabel is ...

188 HUMAN BEINGS CAN BE AWFUL CRUEL TO ONE ANOTHER THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1884), MARK TWAIN W ith little history to ...

189 See also: Uncle Tom’s Cabin 153 ■ The Sound and the Fury 242–43 ■ Of Mice and Men 244 ■ The Grapes of Wrath 244 ■ To Kill a ...

190 HE SIMPLY WANTED TO GO DOWN THE MINE AGAIN TO SUFFER AND TO STRUGGLE GERMINAL (1885), ÉMILE ZOLA N aturalism was a literary ...

191 In Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, the main characters are all descended from a single matriarch, Adelaïde Fouque. Through th ...

192 THE EVENING SUN WAS NOW UGLY TO HER LIKE A GREAT INFLAMED WOUND IN THE SKY TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES (1891), THOMAS HARDY A ...

193 See also: Frankenstein 120–21 ■ Wuthering Heights 132–37 ■ Bleak House 14 6 – 49 ■ Far From the Madding Crowd 200 ■ The Wast ...

194 See also: Death in Venice 240 W hen the dandy Lord Henry first seduces the title character of Oscar Wi lde’s The Picture of ...

195 See also: Bleak House 14 6 – 49 ■ The Picture of Dorian Gray 194 ■ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 201– 02 ■ The ...

196 ONE OF THE DARK PLACES OF THE EARTH HEART OF DARKNESS (1899), JOSEPH CONRAD D uring the 19th century, imperialism reigned su ...

DEPICTING REAL LIFE 197 what he calls “the conquest of the earth,” which is “Not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.” ...

A TALE OF TWO CITIES (1859), CHARLES DICKENS One of only two historical novels written by the prolific English writer Charles Di ...