A comprehensive research and study guide for several novels by Charles Dickens, including plot summaries, thematic analyses, lists of characters, and critical views.

Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; and, the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past.

A collection of fifty-four narratives-- historical chronicles, poems, eyewitness accounts, and fiction by such diversified writers as Mark Twain, Henry Adams, Charles Nordhoff, Padraic Colum, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rupert Brooke, Herman Melville, W. Somerset Maughan, and Alfred Lord Tennyson.

A collection of critical essays on Swift and his work. Also includes a chronology of events in his life.

Writers and artists across the centuries, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, and from the creator of the Luttrell Psalter in the 14th century to John Piper in the 20th, looking up at the same skies and walking in the same brisk air, have felt very different things and woven them into their novels, poems and paintings. Alexandra Harriss subject is not the weather itself, but the weather as it is daily recreated in the human imagination. She builds her remarkable...