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Introduction 7 // 1 Anatomy of a Novel 11 // Background 12 // Plot and setting 14 // Narrators and points of view 15 // Characters and characterization 19 // Style 23 // Structure 28 // Theme 30 // 2 Mean Streets 31 // Raymond Chandler: Farewell, My Lovely 33 // Graham Greene: The Third Man 53 // Close reading: dialogue; characterization // Language practice: structures for comparing and describing // Vocabulary: describing „good“ and „bad“ characters // 3 „It Was Never Love“ 58 // D H Lawrence: Women in Love 61 // Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms 82 // Close reading: points of view; theme // Language practice: reported speech // Vocabulary: imagery and symbolism; style // 4 War Games 87 // Joseph Heller: Catch-22 88 // Olivia Manning: The Danger Tree 108 // Close reading: narrative structure; characters // Language practice: analyzing and writing complex sentences // Vocabulary: impressions of novels // 5 „The White Man’s Burden’ 115 // Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness 117 // Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart 134 // Close reading: setting; theme; the narrator; anticipation // Language practice: clauses of contrast, reason and result // Vocabulary: denotation and connotation // 6 ’Bad Wife!’ // 141 // Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club 142 // Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Householder 163 // Close reading: themes - cultural differences and family relationships // Language practice: presenting how characters think // Vocabulary: adjectives of character // 7 Thinking Aloud 171 // James Joyce: Ulysses 173 // Samuel Beckett: Molloy 192 // Close reading: characterization // Language practice: elliptical sentences // Vocabulary: describing sense impressions // 8 Future Shock 200 // Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale 202 // George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four 220 // Close reading: inferring; characterization; suspense and surprise //

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