• ISBN13: 9781444330472
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publisher Imprint: Wiley
• Publication Date: May 16, 2014
• Pages: 304
• Original Price: 104.95 USD
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 522 grams

About the Book <ul> <li>Offers a close reading of individual texts with attention to their cultural and canonical context</li> <li>Examines the history and evolution of the novel to 1900 and defines each author's aesthetic, cultural, political, and historical significance</li> <li>Covers essential and frequently taught masterworks up to 1900, including Cervantes' Don Quixote ; Tolstoy's War and Peace and Anna Karenina ; Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground , Crime and Punishment , and The Brothers Karamazov ; Stendhal's The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma ; Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education ; Balzac's Pere Goriot ; and Zola's Germinal </li> <li>Written with students and teachers in mind, this book provides accessible and engaging discussions of each novel, along with important pedagogical tools</li> </ul>