Edition |
[First edition]. |
Description |
289 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
The tribe of La Rochefoucauld -- Saint-Simon, chronicler of Versailles -- The Way of the world -- The School for scandal -- Horace Walpole's letters -- Candide -- Les Liaisons dangereuses -- Jane Austen: Lady Susan and Pride and Prejudice -- Byron's Don Juan -- Eugene Onegin -- The Charterhouse of Parma -- Vanity fair -- Barchester Towers -- Washington Square -- Edith Wharton: The Age of innocence and The House of mirth -- The letters and life of Henry Adams. |
Subject |
Worldliness in literature.
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