A lively guide to Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin, a landmark of European romanticism.

Eric Warner places The Waves in the context of Virginia Woolf's career and of the 'modern' age in which it was written.

This textbook examines Mann's great novel Buddenbrooks.

Without a beginning and without an end, Tristram Shandy moves in many different directions, defying the conventional expectations of its readers.

This study focuses on the Bible as a landmark of literature.

Scott's Waverley (1814), set in and around the Jacobite Rising in the Scotland of 1745 6, was the first historical novel in world literature. Innovative and humane in its plot, rich in social detail, and truly international in popularity, it not only launched a genre, but also became a landmark in literary realism, in historiography and in bookselling. In this study, Richard Humphrey traces and accounts for the text's impact on historical fiction and shows its originality in tackling the manifold issues of rebellion and warfare, separatism and union, prejudice and cultural tolerance. He sets...

The tradition of the German novel, before the emergence of its 'classic' writers in the first half of the twentieth century (Thomas Mann, Kafka, Hesse, Musil), does not have an assured place in the canon of European literature. Not that it has wanted for spirited advocates; but, despite all efforts, it has remained firmly on the periphery. The one signal exception is Goethe's novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers usually rendered as 'The Sorrows of Young Werther'. Werther was an extraordinary and immediate bestseller both in Germany and abroad.

Anne Barton places Don Juan within the context of Byron's life and reading.

This is a radical introduction to the Life of Johnson.