Product Description: George Eliot was a prominent English author during the Victorian Era. Born Mary Ann Evans, she chose to change her name to George Eliot so that her works would gain more attention. Eliot would go on to write many classics such as The Mill on the Floss, Silar Marner, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda...read more

In the years since Choice first reviewed Bass, calling it "a provocative collection of essays" and recommending it for "all academic collections," the annual has more than fulfilled its editor's vision. An impressive array of biographers have explained the challenges of their craft while casting much light - sometimes amusing, always colorful and provocative - on their subjects. The roll call includes: Henry Miller (Karl Orend); Anna Freud (Elisabeth Young-Bruehl); Sylvia Plath (Edward Butscher); Doris Lessing (Carole Klein); Gertrude & Leo Srein (Brenda Wineapple); Edward Hopper (Gail Levin); Andre Breton (Mark Polizzotti); Ross Lockridge, Jr. (Larry Lockridge); Ernest Hemingway (Arthur Waldhorn); Susan Sontag (Carl Rollyson & Lisa Paddock); Betty Friedan (Judith Hennessee); James Herrior (Doug Munro); Buster Keaton, Woody Allen (Marion Meade); Dwight Macdonald (Michael Wreszin); Ira Nadel on "Authorized Secrets" and "Theatrical Lives." Bass casts its net beyond the usual glimmering suspects; it trawls the depths of ideological, ethical, legal, feminist, and other cultural channels that affect the course of biography. Karl, himself a biographer of Kafka, Conrad, Faulkner, and George Eliot, adds significantly to the pursuit and understanding of his craft, while offering omnibus reviews of such undertakings as the Penguin Lives series. The promise continues.

Product Description: Book by Karl, Frederick R.

Product Description: In this study, Frederick R. Karl defines and evaluates the main movements in the English novel beginning with Joyce. Karl devotes separate chapters to the works of C. P. Snow, Samuel Beckett, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Graham Greene, Lawrence Durrell, Elizabeth Bowen, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Henry Greene, and Joyce Cary...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: It was not until the late 1930s - after his death - that Joseph Conrad emerged from literary neglect. Critical works on his significant contribution began to surface, many comparing him in talent to Joyce and Faulkner. Frederick R...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Karl shows how Eliot's break from respectable womanhood by running off with the married George Henry Lewes allowed her to begin her career as the major British novelist of the nineteenth century. Often, she drew upon her own life to create her plots and characters...read more

Describes Mary Anne Evans's childhood in nineteenth century Coventry, her lifelong resistance to enforced women's roles, intellectual prowess, elopement with George Henry Lewes, and literary successes.

Product Description: This book is for everyone who thought grammar was beyond them. The traditional handbooks do not work for most readers, and it is the fault of the handbook, not the reader or student. Here the entries are brief, the descriptions of terms to the point, and the language simple and clear...read more

This comprehensive, critical analysis of American novels of the past four decades interprets and evaluates a wide range of writers and works of what Karl views as the first sustained period of 'American Modernism'

Product Description: Book by Karl, Frederick R., Magalaner, Marvin