Product Description: GRIMWIG is a novel about a character borrowed from Charles Dickens's famous Oliver Twist. Herbert Grimwig is a Londoner, and great admirer of Dickens's writing. He reads them avidly as they appear in monthly numbers, and they to some extent form his way of seeing the world...read more

Product Description: In April of 1998 the First Jane Kenyon Conference brought together Donald Hall, Wendell Berry, Galway Kinnell, Alice Mattison, Gregory Orr, and Joyce Peseroff along with a number of scholars, teachers, students, and admirers of Jane Kenyon's poetry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The text of Middlemarch is that of the 1874 edition, the last corrected by the author. For this new edition, the text has been reset in a larger typeface for ease of reading. "Backgrounds" helps readers understand Eliot’s ideas on life and art with generous selections from her letters, journals, essays, and other fictional works...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes the background of Middlemarch, discusses its themes and characterization, and looks at its critical reception

An introduction to Charles Dicken's novel includes discussions of its historical context, critical reception, and narrative structure

Related essays, journals, and letters accompany the story of the loosely entwined lives of Dorothea Brooke, Dr. Lydgate, and the Vincy family in a middle-class town