Books I read
This page was created to keep record of my reading, not for review purpose. I’m not a literature critic.
The 18th Century British Novel
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
prose: medium for the portrayal of contemprorary life, real characters and a real world
Only after Defoe the novellists began to deal with social relationships – the effects of an action within ordered society.
1740-60: Tom Jones Richardson, Fielding, Smolett
They deal with contemprorary conditions, the characters mostly belong to the middle-class
1760-80: Novel of sentiment
Sterne: novel is a medium of self-expression
Domestic Novel: dealed with family life
the main represant: Goldsmith “The Vicar of Wakefield”, forerunner of Dickens, appeals to the motions of the readers
William Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage
Main characters
Philip Carey: he has a clubfoot, orphaned very young, highly sensitive
William Carey: Philip’s uncle, egocentric, domestic tyrant
Miss Emily Wilkinson: twice Philip’s age, Philip’s first love
Mildred Rogers: a waitress, vulgar
Athelny Thorpe: patient of Philip (when he was a medical man)
Sally: daughter of Thorpe, warmhearted, Philip marries her
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