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Millicent Bell
In this edited collection commemorating the bicentennial of Hawthorne’s birth in 1804, Millicent Bell gathers essays by distinguished scholars and critics that examine the ways in which Hawthorne related himself…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
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James believed a life to have many potential paths and a self to hold many destinies. Yet he also realized that no life can be lived-and no story written-except by…
An exploration of the absence of readily explainable motivations for some of the great characters of Shakespeare’s tragedy. While many critics overlook these omissions or explain them away, Millicent Bell…
This book offers fresh examinations of Wharton’s fiction designed both to engage the interest of the student or general reader encountering Wharton for the first time, and to be valuable…
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Written in a richly suggestive style, Hawthorne’s five world-famous novels are permeated by his own history as well as America’s
In The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne alludes…
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Henry James
Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her aunt, the beautiful and financially ambitious Kate Croy is already romantically…
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Already the subject of articles in the International Herald Tribune and the London Times, Beloved Boy is a remarkable collection of letters tracing Henry James’s fascination with and enduring devotion…
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