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19th Century Must-Read Novels Frankenstein. The first true science fiction book ever, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, ... It is a masterpiece of literary realism. Silas Marner.
This month’s Title Search highlights 19th-century fiction with a puzzle that challenges you to find the main titles of a dozen novels hidden in a block of text. Tap or click the words when you ...
The Rise of the Novel in 19th-Century Europe: Unit code: MODLM2035: Credit points: 20: Level of study: M/7: Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) Unit director: Dr. Tomlinson: Open unit ...
A pair of 19th-century novels by an obscure American author is sending the internet into a frenzy, with some claiming the books eerily foreshadow the rise of Donald Trump, his youngest son Barron ...
With In Search of Lost Time, Proust radically broke with the realist and plot-driven conventions of 19th-Century literature to create something entirely new (Credit: Alamy) ...
When Edwin Frank, who founded New York Review Books in 1999 and has run it ever since, read Alex Ross’s 2008 book, “The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century,” he saw it as a ...
Books from the Victorian era, such as cloth-bound hardcovers, Christmas annuals, and serialized novels can be found at the exhibition. The curator of the exhibit, Rebecca Baumann, said before the 19th ...
Female protagonists challenging the status quo in the 19th century are a hallmark of Oliveira’s work. “Women were doing remarkable things and were able to break away from culture,” she said.