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This book is designed to serve as a practical guide for students and others wishing to improve their skills in the detailed analysis and discussion of Hardy's prose texts.

Like Paris in the '20s, Berlin in the early thirties was one of the most exciting cities in the world. As the Weimar Republic sputtered to a close and war loomed on the horizon, the city was a magnet for talented writers and artists.

This chronology, like others in the series, presents the story of Dr Johnson's life in a readily accessible format to provide scholar and general reader alike with a quick guide to dates, people and places together with supplementary indexes.

The scope of this study, ranging from poetry and cinema to street violence and prostitution, provides a detailed account of two writers engaged in the process of self-definition. It presents portraits of figures with whom Auden and Isherwood came into contact and demonstrates how the raw material of daily existence was transformed into art.

General Editor's Preface - Introduction - A Dickens Chronology - Sources - Genealogical Table - Index

Housman (1859-1936) was a poet of enormous popularity and widespread influence: a Latin scholar of the front rank, a superb prose stylist, a notable writer of comic verse and, thanks to the enormous success of A Shropshire Lad, one of the greatest and best-known poems in the English language, he became a legend in his own lifetime.

Combining the most widely-read and studied of Conrad's novels, Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent, with The Shadow Line, this volume represents Conrad's early, middle and later writing.