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Savage Reprisals

Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks

Savage Reprisals( )
Author: Gay, Peter
ISBN:978-0-393-05118-6
Publication Date:Sep 2002
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
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Book Description:

Focusing on three literary masterpieces—Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853), Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857), and Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (1901)—Peter Gay, a leading cultural historian, demonstrates that there is more than one way to read a novel. Typically, readers believe that fiction, especially the Realist novels that dominated Western culture for most of the nineteenth century and beyond, is based on historical truth and that great novels...
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Book Details
Pages:192
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / European / French
Literary Criticism / European / German
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.1 x 21.5 x 2.1 cm
Book Weight:0.364 Kilograms
Author Biography
Gay, Peter (Author)
Peter Gay lives in New York City and Connecticut.




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