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Novel of the City

Satisfies Stage 3 Focused Exposure Requirement

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	Oliver Twist - Full Text The Dickens Page Dickens and the City of Light How Charles Dickens Saw London Dickens' London Page Interactive map of Dickens' London Oliver's London a PBS page Dickens House Museum Dickens Concordances The Life of Charles Dickens A Brief Explanation of the Poor Law in respect of Rural Communities 1601 - 1834 The Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834 The Poor Law Overview Did the treatment of the poor improve after the 1834 Poor Law? History of The Workhouse Encyclopaedia of British History: Child Labour 1750-1850 Charles Dickens On-line Full Texts
	Old Goriot In English with Biographical Note, Criticisms and Interpretations. [Le] père Goriot [Document électronique] / H. de Balzac ; [éd. par Pierre-Georges Castex,...] - Full Text in French The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix by Honore de Balzac The Human Comedy by Honore de Balzac Honoré de Balzac (Books and Writers Page) A Monarchist Marxists Could Love - Peter Brooks on Balzac BALZAC AND LA COMÉDIE HUMAINE BALZAC: LE PERE GORIOT - General Notes BALZAC: LE PERE GORIOT - Topography of the Novel The Topography of Le Père Goriot Rastignac's Bildung Balzac and the Literature of the City
	Dostoevsky's name in English What's in a name? Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky translated by Constance Garnett Crime and Punishment in Russian Brief Biography of Dostoevsky Fyodor Dostoevsky - Biography Gitta Hammarberg's- Dostoevsky's Petersburg St. Petersburg on the Road to Capitalism (1840s to 1890s) Background and a Virtual Tour. The Crystal Palace Model Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Lecture on the novel from Russell McNeil Crime and Punishment Summary & Study Guide. From Professor Beyer at Middlebury College. Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment - Study notes from Professor Gary R. Jahn, University of Minnesota Dostoevsky Bibliography and Criticism Dostoevsky Timeline 19th Century Time Line - The Age of Dostoevsky
	Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Full text in English, Garnett trans. Notes From Underground in Russian Notes from Underground in Russian - this site is for those whose Russian skills could use some help. Just click on an unfamiliar word and the English translation will appear at the bottom. What is to be Done by Nikolai Chernyshevsky in Russian What is to be Done by Nikolai Chernyshevsky in English Study Guide for Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground Study Notes fot the text The Crystal Palace Model Kant's Aesthetics in Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground by David A. Goldfarb Dostoevsky as Philosopher Gothicism in Conrad and Dostoevsky by Robert Berry, Department of English, University of Otago, New Zealand N. A. Berdyaev (Berdiaev): The Revelation About Man in the Creativity of Dostoevsky Scandal, Resentment, Idolatry: The Underground Psychology of Terrorism by Andrew McKenna Dostoevsky and His Theology Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and Ayn Rand's Moral Triad Fyodor Dostoevsky - Living with Epilepsy
	Andrei Bely Petersburg - Full text in Russian Short Biography of Andrei Bely Bely's Biography from the Encyclopedia of Soviet Writers N. A. Berdyaev (Berdiaev) An Astral Novel (Reflections regarding A. Bely's Novel "Petersburg") [PDF] The World of the Novel "Petersburg" by Andrei Bely. An article by Eva Maliti, Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences,Konventná 13, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia Party Bombs and Sardine Tins, or Petersburg: the Crux of Russian Modernism Russian Modernism Timeline Decembrist Square: St Petersburg, Russia Scroll down for information on the Bronze Horseman Constructing the City: Petersburg by Andrei Bely and the Development of the Twentieth Century Montage by Nataliya Mateboer ( PDF document, Acrobat reader required) The Texture of the Retina: Intertwining Patterns of Perception in the City. On Andrei Bely’s Petersburg and Ingo Schulze’s 33 Moments of Happiness by Katalin Teller Bely and The Mongols: Geopolitical Visions in Andrey Bely’s Petersburg by Thomas Edward and Sandys Bamforth ( PDF document, Acrobat reader required) The City as Dialectic: Andrei Bely’s Creative Consciousness, its Nietzschean Influence, and the Urban Centre in Petersburg by Sandra Joy Russell from Central Michigan University "Silver Age" City (Turn-of-the-Century St. Petersburg) Background and a Virtual Tour Andrei Bely's "Petersburg" by Solzhenitsyn - In Russian
	Zamyatin's We - English Full text - PDF Acrobat Reader Required Zamyatin's We - Russian Text We - In Russian; this site is for those whose Russian skills could use some help. Just click on an unfamiliar word and the English translation will appear at the bottom Imagining the Future: Zamyatin and Wells by Patrick Parrinder Kafka v Zamyatin on Oppression and Tyranny by Bryan Register Stifled Heresy: The Tragedy of Zamyatin The critique of technocracy in early Soviet literature: The responses of Zamyatin and Mayakovsky by Susan Layton Reinterpretations of Orwell's 1984, Huxley's Brave New World and Zamyatin's We Based on the Conflict Between Liberty and Domination Public and Secret in the Topography of Slavic Dystopias by Dejan Ajdachich Revolutions from the waist downwards: desire as rebellion in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, George Orwell's 1984, and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Petrograd (Petersburg) During World War I and the Revolution (1914-1924) Background and a Virtual Tour Review by George Orwell of We by E.I. Zamyatin in Tribune, January 4, 1946 1984 by George Orwell
	Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bukgakov. Full text in Russian Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bukgakov. Full text in English. tr. Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bukgakov. Full text in English. tr. Michael Glenny Maps for Master and Magarita Look at the rest of this site. It is very useful. The myth of Goethe's Faust in The Master and Margarita. An article by Anita McCreath, University of South Africa "The Bacchae and The Master and Margarita," Elementa, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1996), 129-42 PDF File, Acrobat reader required "Bulgakov's Master and Margarita: Masking the Supernatural and the Secret Police," Russian Language Journal, Vol. 38, Nos. 129-30 (1984), 115-131 PDF File, Acrobat reader required