Novels of Everyday Life
By:"Laurie Langbauer"
Published on 1999-01 by Cornell University Press
Laurie Langbauer argues that our worldview is shaped not just by great public events but also by the most overlooked and familiar aspects of common life—\
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The Theodosian Code and Novels, and the Sirmondian Constitutions
By:"Clyde Pharr"
Published on 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Pharr, Clyde. The Theodosian Code and Novels and the Sirmondian Constitutions: A Translation with Commentary, Glossary, and Bibliography. [Princeton]: Princeton University Press, 1952. xxvi, 643 pp. Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2001023441. ISBN 1-58477-146-1. Cloth. $195. * Definitive scholarly English translation of the Theodosian Code, which was the Code of laws that regulated Roman life at its apex before the era of Justinian. The structure and scope of this text illustrate the complexity of the legal system of this fascinating era and the ultimate fall of the Roman empire. Marital law, adultery and inheritance; libel; the military; pardons; government administration; tax and tax appeals; fiscal law, debtors, and petitions; notification of suit; the secret service; land matters; gladiators, conscripted labor and compulsory public service, slavery and manumission, including the restriction of Jews against ownership of Christian slaves; the relationship of church and state and much more are covered. With thorough introduction, commentary, glossary, bibliography. Well-indexed.
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How Novels Think
By:"Nancy Armstrong"
Published on 2006-03-07 by Columbia University Press
During the eighteenth century, novels by Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Jane Austen offered their readers unforgettable, one-of-a-kind protagonists who appeared to overcome the limits of their social positions. This kind of individual did not reflect the authors and readers but endowed both with distinctively modern identities. In the decades following the revolutions in British North America and in France, novels began to question the fantasy of a self-made individual who could not rest until he or she arrived at a better social position. By the early nineteenth century, individualism had consequently become a problem in its own right. Instead of such plucky protagonists as Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, Richardson's Pamela Andrews, and Austen's Elizabeth Bennet, we find novels by Sir Walter Scott and Mary Shelley repackaging individualism in monstrous forms that threaten British society with collapse. Victorian novels by Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy assumed that every man harbors an inner savage, just as every woman harbors an inner whore. The trick in becoming an individual was to transform competitive instinct and seductive power into acceptable forms of masculinity and femininity. The high mortality rate of Victorian heroines testifies to the difficulty of negotiating the passage from savage to civilized. While a novel like The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde gives up on the effort to contain these contradictory aspects of individualism within one body, Dracula carries the process of disintegration one step further by pitting the modern individual against a species capable of taking over individual desire itself.
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Collected Ancient Greek Novels
By:"Bryan P. Reardon"
Published on 2008 by Univ of California Press
Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, did in fact flourish in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure to which they are related. Popular in the Renaissance, these stories have been less familiar in later centuries. Translations of the Greek stories were not readily available in English before B.P. Reardon's excellent volume. Nine complete stories are included here as well as ten others, encompassing the whole range of classical themes: ideal romance, travel adventure, historical fiction, and comic parody. A new foreword by J.R. Morgan examines the enormous impact this groundbreaking collection has had on our understanding of classical thought and our concept of the novel.
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Lost Gay Novels
By:"Anthony Slide"
Published on 2003 by Psychology Press
Searching for an introduction to the shadowy, intriguing world of early 20th century gay-themed fiction? In Lost Gay Novels, respected pop culture historian Anthony Slide resurrects fifty early 20th century American novels with gay themes or characters and discusses them in carefully researched, engaging prose. Each entry offers you a detailed discussion of plot and characters, a summary of contemporary critical reception, and biographical information on the often-obscure writer. In Lost Gay Novels, another aspect of gay life and society is, in the words the author, “uncloseted,” providing you with an absorbing glimpse into the world of these nearly forgotten books. Lost Gay Novels gives you an introduction to: authors who aren't usually associated with homosexuality, including John Buchan, James M. Cain, and Rex Stout the history of gay publishing in the US and abroad gay themes in novels published between 1917 and 1950—with entries from nearly every year! the ways in which the popular culture of the time shaped the authors' attitudes toward homosexuality the difficulty of finding detailed biographical information on little-known authors If you're interested in gay studies or history, or even if you're just looking for a comprehensive guide to titles you've probably never heard of before, Lost Gay Novels will be a welcome addition to your collection. The introduction from author Slide—called by the Los Angeles Times “a one-man publishing phenomenon”—provides you with an overview to the basics of this landmark collection. Themes found in many of the titles include death, secrecy, and living a double life, and in reading the entries you will discover just why these themes are so common. As Slide says in his introduction: “The approach of the novelist toward homosexuality may not always be a positive one… but the works are important to an understanding of contemporary attitudes toward gay men and gay society.” Lost Gay Novels will help you further your own understanding of the dynamic relationship between literature and culture, and you will finish the book with a greater appreciation of modern American gay fiction.
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Two Novels from Ancient Greece
By:"Stephen Trzaskoma"
Published on by Hackett Publishing
These new translations of the earliest preserved novels in ancient Greek offer us a glimpse of the beginning of prose fiction in the western world. Their plots feature beautiful young lovers struggling in unlikely circumstances against impossible odds -- with an ultimately happy result.
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100 Must-read Classic Novels
By:"Nick Rennison"
Published on 2006 by A&C Black
A guide to 100 novels published before 1950, selected for their significance, greatness and contribution to our rich and varied literary heritage.
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Three Novels
By:"Samuel Beckett"
Published on 2009-06-16 by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Few works of contemporary literature are so universally acclaimed as central to our understanding of the human experience as Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy. Molloy, the first of these masterpieces, appeared in French in 1951. It was followed seven months later by Malone Dies and two years later by The Unnamable. All three have been rendered into English by the author.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II
By:"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"
Published on 2003-08-26 by Bantam Classics
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in one eBook, Bantam Classics presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero—a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime! Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmes’s famous “seven percent solution” and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery. Also included are Holmes’s feats of extraordinary deception in such famous cases as the chilling “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” the baffling riddle of “The Musgrave Ritual,” and the ingeniously plotted “The Five Orange Pips.” Volume II begins with The Hound of Baskervilles, a haunting novel of murder on eerie Grimpen Moor, which has rightly earned its reputation as the finest murder mystery ever written. The Valley of Fear matches Holmes against his archenemy, the master of imaginative crime, Professor Moriarty. In addition, the loyal Dr. Watson has faithfully recorded Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the thrilling “The Adventure of the Red Circle,” Holmes’s tragic and fortunately premature farewell in “The Final Problem,” and the twelve baffling adventures from The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle’s incomparable tales bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221 B Baker Street, where for more than forty years Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.
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Problem Novels
By:"Anna Maria Jones"
Published on 2007 by Ohio State University Press
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Before Novels
By:"J. Paul Hunter"
Published on 1992-06-01 by W. W. Norton & Company
What did people read before there were novels? Not necessarily just other \
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Novels of Manju Kapur
By:"Ashok Kumar"
Published on 2010-04-19 by Pinnacle Technology
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Novels of the Contemporary Extreme
By:"Alain-Philippe Durand","Naomi Mandel"
Published on 2006-06-23 by A&C Black
Charts a new international writing phenomenon - 'contemporary extreme literature'.
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The Novels of Anita Desai
By:"Manmohan Krishna Bhatnagar","Mittapalli Rajeshwar"
Published on 2000-01-01 by Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Anita Desai S Work Represents A Unique Blending Of The Indian And The Western. Her Novels Catch The Bewilderment Of The Individual Psyche Confronted With The Overbearing Socio-Cultural Environment And The Ever-Beckoning Modern Promise Of Self-Gratification And Self-Fulfilment. In The Face Of This Dual Onslaught, Her Protagonists, Male Or Female Maya, Sita, Monisha And Amla; Sarah, Nanda And Raka; Bim And Tara; Devan, Baumgartner Are Seen Poised Rentalizingly At Different Junctures Of The Philosophic Spectrum.Applying Sociological, Psychoanalytic, Structural And Other Approaches Of Formal Textual Analysis, The Essays In The Present Anthology Take A Fresh Look At Established Works, Revealing Aspects Of Study Hitherto Unexplored, Offer Critically Insightful Probes Into Individual Novels And Explore The Deployment Of Images, Symbols And Other Poetic Devices, Besides Diverse Narrative Strategies.An Indispensable Source-Book For Students, Researchers And Teachers Of Indian English And Commonwealth Literature In General And Fiction And Anita Desai In Particular.An Insightful Companion For Research In Sociology And Women-Studies.
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Four Classic American Novels
By:"Nathaniel Hawthorne","Mark Twain","Stephen Crane","Herman Melville"
Published on 2007 by Penguin
An omnibus edition of four of America's most influential and thought-provoking novels includes The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, and Billy Budd by Herman Melville. Reprint.
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Novel Assessments for Novels
By:"Tasha Ginn"
Published on 2003 by Teacher Created Resources
Describes creative assessment options for measuring students' knowledge of a novel. Includes samples of each type of assessment.
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Novelists and Novels
By:"Harold Bloom"
Published on 2009-01-01 by Infobase Publishing
Read what Bloom had to say on the world's great novelists including Miguel de Cervantes, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemmingway and more.
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American Mystery and Detective Novels
By:"Larry N. Landrum"
Published on 1999-01-01 by Greenwood Publishing Group
A guide to research on American mystery and detective novels emphasizing the historical development of the genre and major critical approaches to the literature.
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Jane Austen's Novels
By:"Roger Gard"
Published on 1994 by Yale University Press
Although Jane Austen has long been one of England's best loved novelists this book by Roger Gard is at once a discussion of Jane Austen's oeuvre and a commentary that should stimulate all readers.
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The Novels of Mulk Raj Anand
By:"Mittapalli Rajeshwar"
Published on 2000-01-01 by Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Mulk Raj Anand Is One Of The Best Known Novelists In English In India. Translated Into Many Languages In India As Well As Abroad, He Has Been Universally Acclaimed As A Progressive Writer.The Present Anthology Of Recent Critical Essays Probes Into His Internationally Reputed Novels Like Untouchable, Coolie, Gauri As Well As His Various Collections Of Short Stories. The Critical Perspective Is Fresh And Innovative, Embracing The Latest Critical Theories And Schools. The Essays Come Up With Novel Insights Into Themes And Characters, Form And Design In The Texts Explored.The Structural And Rhetorical Devices Employed In The Texts Have Also Been Analysed Threadbare. A Detailed Interview With Anand Facilitates A Peep Into The Writer S Workshop, Revealing Hitherto Unexplored Facets Of Anand S Artistic Persona.A Welcome Addition To Fiction Studies. An Indispensable Collection Of Articles For Students, Teachers And Researchers In Literary Theory, Fiction, Indian English Literature, Sociology Of Literature And Progressivism.
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