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Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction
Jenny Hartley
Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world’s best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Charles Dickens: A Very ...
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Decadence: A Very Short Introduction
David Weir
Decadence: A Very Short Introduction provides an overview of the culture of decadence—the artistic expression of a conflicted sense of modernity—by tracing its origin in ...
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The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction
Nick Groom
The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction shows that the concept of ‘Gothic’ is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror ...
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Leo Tolstoy: A Very Short Introduction
Liza Knapp
War and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognized as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author, Leo Tolstoy, has been honoured as the father of the modern war ...
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