Bøger i Approaches to Teaching World Literature S. serien

Jane Austen is a favourite with many students, whether they've read her novels or viewed popular film adaptations. But Persuasion (1817), completed at the end of her life, can be challenging for students to approach. This volume provides teachers with avenues to explore the depths and richness of the novel.

Featuring both complex structural features and psychological and emotional realism, The Plum in the Golden Vase centres on the rich merchant Ximen Qing and his household and describes the physical surroundings and material objects of a Ming Dynasty city.

Recounting the murder of an elderly woman by a student expelled from university, Crime and Punishment is a psychological and political novel that portrays the strains on Russian society in the middle of the nineteenth century.