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Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Language
English
Format
Category

Non-Fiction

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'Enchanting...the most engagingly boffiny book imaginable.' Spectator

Does Becky kill Jos at the end of Vanity Fair? Why does no one notice that Hetty is pregnant in Adam Bede? How, exactly, does Victor Frankenstein make his monster?

Readers of Victorian fiction often find themselves tripping up on seeming anomalies, enigmas and mysteries in their favourite novels.

In Is Heathcliff a Murderer? John Sutherland investigates 34 conundrums of nineteenth-century fiction, paying homage to the most rewarding of critical activities: close reading and the pleasures of good-natured pedantry

© 2017 Icon Books (Ebook): 9781785783005

Release date

Ebook: 2 November 2017

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