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Diversity and depth in fiction : selected critical writings of Angus Wilson
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Diversity and depth in fiction : selected critical writings of Angus Wilson

Author: Angus Wilson; Kerry McSweeney
Publisher: New York : Viking Press, 1984, ©1983.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Includes information on Jane Austen (Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sandition, Sense an Sensibility), Albert Camus (Caligula, La Chute, LʼEtranger), Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes), Charles Dickens (Bleak House, The Chimes, David Copperfield, Dombey and Son, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, Martin  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Angus Wilson; Kerry McSweeney
ISBN: 0670770760 : 9780670770762
OCLC Number: 10702528
Description: xvi, 303 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Evil in the English novel. Richardson's Clarissa. William Godwin's novels. Conflicts in Jane Austen's novels. Charles Dickens: a haunting. Dickens and Dostoevsky. Meredith's The egoist. Zola's L'assommoir. Gissing's New Grub Street. Kipling's Kim -- Twentieth century: The view from the 1950s: Virginia Woolf (I) . Future of the English novel. Lawrence and Leavis. Diversity and depth. Letter from London. Arnold Bennett. Galsworth's Forsyte saga. English novel 1912-1922. Marcel Proust. Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage. Virginia Woolf (II). John Cowper Powys. Ivy Compton-Burnett. Aldous Huxley. Evelyn Waugh. Henry Green. Christopher Isherwood. Claude Simon. Albert Camus. Gunter Grass. Dilemma of the contemporary novelist -- Novels of Angus Wilson: The novelist and the narrator. Iowa review interview.
Responsibility: edited by Kerry McSweeney.

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Includes information on Jane Austen (Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sandition, Sense an Sensibility), Albert Camus (Caligula, La Chute, LʼEtranger), Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes), Charles Dickens (Bleak House, The Chimes, David Copperfield, Dombey and Son, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, Martin Chuzzlewit, Nicolas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Pickwick Papers, Pictures from Italy), George Eliot (Daniel Deronda, Felix Holt, Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, Scenes of Clerical Life), Gustave Flaubert (Bouvard et Pecuchet), etc.

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