This book includes the author's novella Death in Venice as well as the author's working notes and six critical essays meant to stimulate classroom discussion.

In "Madame Bovary," his story of a shallow, deluded, unfaithful, but consistently compelling woman living in the provinces of nineteenth-century France, Gustave Flaubert invented not only the modern novel but also a modern attitude toward human character and human experience that remains with us to this day. One of the rare works of art that it would be fair to call perfect, "Madame Bovary" has had an incalculable influence on the literary culture...

Attempts to present a comprehensive view of Byron's work and life by including selections from his letters, a chronology of his life, critical essays, and a broad selection of his poetry.