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1	Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita: A Casebook more books like this by Ellen Pifer (Editor) add to wishlist Midway through the 20th century, "Lolita" burst onto the literary scene - a Russian exile's extraordinary gift to American letters and the new world. The scandal provoked by the novel's subject - the sexual passion of a middle-aged European for a 12-year-old American girl - was quickly upstaged by the critical attention and acclaim it received ... see all copies from $17.50! new only from $26.37! \| SVS
2	Demon or Doll: Images of the Child in Contemporary Writing and Culture more books like this by Ellen Pifer add to wishlist Dickens's ideal of the innocent child underwent startling transformations even before the close of the 19th century. This critical study, alluding to work by Morrison, Rushdie, DeLillo, McEwan, and others, explores how late-20th-century writers of fiction drew various portraits of the child. see all copies from $12.12! new only from $13.49! \| SVS
3	Saul Bellow Against the Grain more books like this by Ellen Pifer add to wishlist Pifer contends that Bellow's fiction is radical. Going against the grain of contemporary culture and its secular pieties, the novelist undermines accepted notions of reality and challenges the "orthodoxies" created by materialist values and rationalist thought. Bellow's ten novels actually test the assumptions of traditional realism-the genre with ... see all copies from $14.45! new only from $14.45! \| first editions
4	Nabokov and the Novel more books like this by Ellen Pifer add to wishlist see all copies from $5.99! new only from $99.00!
5	Critical Essays on John Fowles more books like this by Ellen Pifer (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $151.44! first editions

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