The bright book of life novels to read and reread
"In his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction, America's most original and controversial literary critic and legendary Yale professor writes trenchantly about fifty-two masterworks spanning the Western tradition"--
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The lost traveller's dream
- Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes
- Clarissa / Samuel Richardson
- Tom Jones / Henry Fielding
- Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen
- Emma / Jane Austen
- Persuasion / Jane Austen
- I promessi sposi (the bethrothed) / Alessandro Manzoni
- The red and black / Stendhal
- The charterhouse of Parma / Stendhal
- The vautrin saga: old goriot, lost illusions, the splendor and misery of the courtesans / Honoré de Balzac
- The captain's daughter / Alexander Pushkin
- Wuthering heights / Emily Brontë
- Vanity fair / William Makepeace Thackeray
- Moby-Dick / Herman Melville
- Bleak house / Charles Dickens.
