This book critically examines the long established tradition of adapting classic novels to film or TV screen, encompassing novelists from Jane Austen to Michael Ondaatje. The ...

Presenting a tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, this novel highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life.

A young orphan deals with hardship in his early life at a boarding school and living with a controlling aunt.

This grand narrative history of the world's first experiment in globalization offers lessons for an ever-expanding American Empire--from England's most talented young historian.

Arthur's seduction of an innocent, young country girl results in remorse, suffering, and regret

This feminist biography of one of the greatest English novelists sheds important new light on George Eliot's audacious life and powerful works, including such master-pieces as ...

Includes George Eliot's life and career, a general snyopsis, a list of characters, chapter summaries and commentaries, and analysis of main characters, and more.