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Barbara White has written a thoroughly researched, detailed description of patterns of women's experience in fiction for adolescents. It belongs in academic libraries, public libraries, and school libraries' professional collections and should be valuable reading for all adults who work with and/or live with adolescents.

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This study looks at J.K. Rowling's books and considers some of the reasons for their phenomenal success. This is done against a backdrop of how Harry Potter relates to other contemporary children's books so that students and teachers can place them in the context for which they were written.

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H. G. Wells and All Things Russian' examines Wellss keen interest in Russian culture and development, and how Russia and the Soviet Union were, in turn, profoundly influenced by his works and his visits to the country.

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In this comprehensive critical study of Kureishi's work Bart Moore-Gilbert provides a detailed account of his work to date. The author locates Kureishi's work securely in its historical, social, cultural and critical contexts, as well as providing detailed readings of all the major works.

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The "Continuum Contemporaries" series is designed as a source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and literature students at school, college and university. It aims to give readers informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, acclaimed and influential novels of recent years.

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A student-guide to Thomas Hardy's most enduring novel, "Tess of the D'Urbervilles". It explores the style, structure, themes, critical reception, and literary influence of Thomas Hardy's novel. It discusses the novel's film and TV adaptations. It offers guidance on literary and historical context, language, style and form, and reading the text.

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A student-guide to Thomas Hardy's most enduring novel, "Tess of the D'Urbervilles". It explores the style, structure, themes, critical reception, and literary influence of Thomas Hardy's novel. It discusses its film and TV adaptations. It offers guidance on literary and historical context, language, style and form, and reading the text.

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A reader's guide to one of the most popular novels of the past ten years. Includes a biography of the novelist, analysis of the novel, reviews of the novel, the novel's standing today vis-a-vis TV, film, prizes, etc, and further reading, discussion questions, websites.

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Three major conventional figures dominated Hawthorne's romances: the noble Founding Father, the "narrow Puritan," and the rebellious daughter. Daniel Bell examines the ways in which Hawthorne used these and other conventional characters to formulate his own sense of New England history. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library u

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Hawthorne's Literary History collects together the essays Professor Colacurcio has written on Hawthorne since the publication of his ground-breaking Province of Piety, elaborating and refining his analyses of how Hawthorne's most memorable early tales "do history," but proceeding then to explore the later productions of that author's distinguished career.

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Hawthornes Literary History collects together the essays Professor Colacurcio has written on Hawthorne since the publication of his ground-breaking Province of Piety, elaborating and refining his analyses of how Hawthornes most memorable early tales do history, but proceeding then to explore the later productions of that authors distinguished career.

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"Heart of Darkness" (1899) is one of the most important literary works of the early twentieth century. It has provoked much critical debate, on issues such as fin de siecle doubt and pessimism, European colonialism, racism, and misogyny. This work introduces "Heart of Darkness" through its key characters.

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Provides an overview of the novel, "The Heart of Darkness". This book offers discussions of the narrative structure and the narrators. It includes chapters analysing the characters in relation to the text's themes, issues and historical context.

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The Iranian writer Sadeq Hedayat is the most influential figure in twentieth-century Persian fiction--and the object of a kind of cult after his suicide in 1951. His masterpiece The Blind Owl is the most important novel of modern Iran. Its abrupt, tortured opening sentence, "There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of can

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These scholars bring new insight to the understanding of Hemingway's published and unpublished works and illustrate that Hemingway studies have come of age in our time.

These seventeen essays demonstrate the maturity and diversity of Hemingway studies.

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This edited volume is a wide ranging collection of essays on Ernest Hemingway and his work by some of the world's leading scholars and critics in the field of Hemingway studies. This study will be of interest and use to Hemingway buffs, to scholars of modern American literature, and to academic libraries.

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"A working check-list of Hemingway's prose, poetry, and journalism, with notes": p. [409]-426.

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Presents the story of the year - 1875 to 1876 - when the young novelist Henry James moved to Paris, drawn by his literary idols living at the center of the early modern movement in art. This narrative combines biography and criticism and uses James' writings to tell the story from his point of view.