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219 The Martello Tower with its “gloomy, domed livingroom” is where Stephen Dedalus pursues a writer’s life with “stately, plump ...

220 now restores the balance by giving Molly her own voice. Allowing his female protagonist to have the last word (an affirmativ ...

221 the most complex of all father–son relationships, and on Shakespeare’s Hamlet—torn apart by vengeful thoughts about his fath ...

222 See also: Quan Tangshi 46 T he Baihua literary and cultural movement in China, initiated in 1917 by the scholar and intellec ...

223 See also: One Thousand and One Nights 44–45 C olonial empires began their inevitable decline in the aftermath of World War I ...

224 CRITICISM MARKS THE ORIGIN OF PROGRESS AND ENLIGHTENMENT THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN (1924), THOMAS MANN W idely considered to be Tho ...

225 See also: Jane Eyre 128–31 ■ David Copperfield 153 ■ Little Women 199 ■ A Sentimental Education 199 ■ Death in Ven ice 240 ■ ...

226 The plot of the novel revolves around the various patients who he meets, and the relationships he develops with them. An edu ...

227 the right one. Considering this as Mann’s viewpoint, the whole purpose of the book as a novel of education is revealed to be ...

LIKE MOTHS AMONG THE AND THE CHAMPAGNE AND WHISPERINGS THE STARS THE GREAT GATSBY (1925), F. SCOTT FITZGERALD US_228-233_Gatsby. ...

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230 T he author and literary hostess Gertrude Stein, talking with Ernest Hemingway, spoke of a “lost generation” of the young—th ...

231 man was an attractive antidote to the power of old money passed on by inheritance and marriage among the “best” families. Th ...

232 affluence, the nouveau riche. A short distance away is New York, teeming with dubious deals and clandestine pleasures. In be ...

233 worldly, highly nuanced perceptions and sympathies, Nick is as much the novel’s subject as Gatsby. The thought he leaves us ...

234 See also: Metamorphosis 210 –11 ■ The Magic Mountain 224–27 ■ The Man Without Qualities 243 A lthough the 15 years after the ...

235 See also: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 126–27 ■ Invisible Man 259 ■ Beloved 306–09 T he Harlem Renaissance of ...

236 DEAD MEN ARE HEAVIER THAN BROKEN HEARTS THE BIG SLEEP (1939), RAYMOND CHANDLER H ard-boiled detective fiction brought realis ...

237 See also: Bleak House 14 6 – 49 ■ The Moonstone 198–99 ■ The Hound of the Baskervilles 208 ■ The New York Trilogy 336 BREAKI ...

238 IT IS SUCH A SECRET PLACE THE LAND OF TEARS THE LITTLE PRINCE (1943), ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY M any writers were forced to ...