Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

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Discussion Historical context At the beginning of the nineteenth century the Augustan Age continued its advances in capitalism and industria...

The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

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Discussion Historical Background When  The Vicar of Wakefield  was published in 1766 the British Empire was in expansion and the Industrial ...

Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne

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Discussion   1. Literary background Narrative presentation : In  Don Quixote  (1605 & 1615) the knight lives out his own fiction by re-e...

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

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Discussion Literary context Henry Fielding's (1707-1754) picaresque narrative Tom Jones (1749) draws on the Spanish tradition of Don Qu...

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

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  Discussion Literary background Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was an Irish clergyman. He visited England briefly and joined The Scriblerus Clu...

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

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Discussion Literary context This short introductory background to the novel is an overview of its historical situation in European literatur...

Memories of the Future by Siri Hustveldt

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Decline & Fall by Evelyn Waugh

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The Cockroach by Ian McEwan

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Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

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Breakfast at Tiffany´s

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The 5th. Child by Doris Lessing

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The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood

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The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

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  The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

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 A Manual for Cleaning Ladies By Lucia Berlin
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A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

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Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

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Zero K by Don Delillo

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