Frederick R. Karl

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1) William Faulkner, American writer: a biography

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Karl, Frederick R

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A biography of the storytelling genius of Faulkner, examining his Southern heritage, his life, and his work.

2) A reader's guide to great twentieth-century English novels

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Karl, Frederick R

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From Joseph Conrad through D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, to Aldous Huxley, this great Guide includes a short biography of each writer as well as a full discussion of his or her major novels. Among the works treated are "Nostromo" and "Lord Jim"; "Sons and Lovers" and "Women in Love"; "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake"; "Passage to India" and "Room with a View"; "Mrs. Dalloway" and "To the Lighthouse"; "Point Counterpoint"...

3) The contemporary English novel

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Karl, Frederick R

4) The adversary literature: the English novel in the eighteenth century: a study in genre

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Karl, Frederick R

5) A reader's guide to the contemporary English novel

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Karl, Frederick R

6) A reader's guide to Joseph Conrad

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Karl, Frederick R

7) George Eliot, voice of a century: a biography

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Karl, Frederick R

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Frederick R. Karl's magisterial biography of George Eliot proves her to be one of the most fascinating and iconic individuals of her time. Born in 1819 as Mary Anne Evans, she grew up near rural Coventry when the pastoral life was being destroyed by the rapid rise of industrialism. Her father, Robert Evans, took care of an estate, where the family lived. Eliot, his youngest child, absorbed the world around her, its beauty and its delicate sense of...