Charles Dickens was the most popular writer of his age and is still considered one of the world's greatest novelists. This well-written study surveys his unusual and prolific life, relating his fictio
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Igbo scholar Ogbaa compiles commentary and original materials to construct social and cultural contexts for Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958), the most widely read and influential African novel
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A Tale of Two Cities, does not waste a word in telling a humanly touching, suspenseful tale against the background of one of the most bloody events in history, the French Revolution. This collection
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Ideal for student research and class discussion, this interdisciplinary casebook provides a rich variety of primary historical documents and commentary on The Crucible within the context of two relev
"A Raisin in the Sun" is the first play by a black woman to be produced in a Broadway theater. First performed in 1959, before the civil rights and women's movements came to the fore, it raises issues
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Every generation of readers has interpreted the meaning of "The Red Badge of Courage" anew. Its appeal is both historical and universal--historical in its Civil War setting and universal in its relati
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