Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor wrote witty novels about the domestic lives of middle-class women. Widely read, their work was often dismissed as middlebrow. Brown argues their skilful use of comedy and irony provided the receptive reader with subversive commentary on t…
Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor wrote witty novels about the domestic lives of middle-class women. Widely read, their work was often dismissed as middlebrow. Brown argues their skilful use of comedy and irony provided the receptive reader with subversive commentary on t…
Elizabeth von Arnim (1866-1941) and Elizabeth Taylor (1912-75) wrote witty and entertaining novels about the domestic lives of middle-class women. Widely read and enjoyed, their work was often dismissed as middlebrow. Brown argues that their skilful use of comedy and irony worke…
Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor wrote witty and entertaining novels about the domestic lives of middle-class women. Widely read and enjoyed, their work was often dismissed as middlebrow. Brown argues their skilful use of comedy and irony provided the receptive reader wi…
Dear Reader, You have undoubtedly picked up this book by mistake, so please put it down. Nobody in their right mind would read this particular book about the lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire on purpose, because each dismal moment of their stay in the village of V.F.D…
The vile village
by Snicket, Lemony, Helquist, Brett
fromA series of unfortunate events
Dear Reader, You have undoubtedly picked up this book by mistake, so please put it down. Nobody in their right mind would read this particular book about the lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire on purpose, because each dismal moment of their stay in the village of V.F.D…
Joseph Andrews: a satire of modern times
by Varey, Simon
fromTwayne's masterwork studies
Joseph Andrews: a satire of modern times
by Varey, Simon
fromTwayne's masterwork studies
The Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
by Dickens, Charles (, Wormald, Mark
fromPenguin classics
Dear Reader, if you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted; but their lives, I am sorry to say, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of …