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Seven short stories from the prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Edith Wharton. With a wide variety of protagonists – a cloistered monk to a struggling artist to a Governor to a New England lawyer’s wife – she is flexing her writing muscles and trying on personas. Includes „The Last Asset”, „In Trust”, „The Pretext”, „The Verdict”, „The Pot-Boiler”, and „The Best Man”. In the title story,...

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies is a peer-reviewed journal published since 1988 under the auspices of the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. Anglica is an annual print in two volumes. The literary volume contains articles addressing various aspects of Anglophone culture ranging from the medieval period to the twenty-first century, with specific emphasis on literature,...

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies is a peer-reviewed journal published since 1988 under the auspices of the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. Anglica is an annual print in two volumes. The literary volume contains articles addressing various aspects of Anglophone culture ranging from the medieval period to the twenty-first century, with specific emphasis on literature,...

  The historical background to a Jewish presence in Canada is very well researched [...] the sections on critical analysis of individual texts are strong and insightful. Good use is made of particular texts as examples of general or theoretical propositions, e.g. Wiseman’s novel  The Sacrifice is used extensively in the theoretical section on travel writing to test and illuminate theory. This...