The New Lifetime Reading Plan

Further reading: The standard authority is Arthur H. Quinn's Edgar Allan Poe: A Criticai Biography. See also Joseph Wood Krutch's excellent Edgar Allan Poe: A Study in Genius; Edward Wagenknecht, Edgar Allan Poe: The Man Behind the Legend; Constance Pope-Hennessy, Edgar Allan Poe, 180Q-184Q: A Criticai Biography; Perry Miller, The Raven and the Whale; William L. Howarth, ed., Twentieth Century Interpretations of Poes Tales; Roger Asselineau, Edgar Allan Poe.

William Makepeace Thackeray—Vanity Fair is available generally. Good editions: Modern Library, Oxford U. Press, Penguin, Riverside. Penguin has a good Henry Esmond. His English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century (Dutton) contains interesting assessments of some of his predecessors.

Further reading: The standard life is Gordon N. Ray's Thackeray: The Uses of Adversity (1811-1846) and Thackeray: The Age of

Wisdom (1847-1863). A good one-volume biography: Ann Monsarrat, An Uneasy Victorian. A fine criticai study is Geoffrey Tillotson, Thackeray the Novelist. See also John Careys Thackeray: Prodigal Genius.

Charles Dickens—Ali of the major novйis are available in mul- tiple paperback editions. Oxford offers a handsome complete set of Dickens's novйis in hardcover.

Further reading: The comprehensive biography is Edgar Johnson, Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph. The Dickens literature is formidable. Here are some interesting treatments: F.R. and Q.D. Leavis, Dickens the Novelist; Humphry House, The Dickens World; Angus Wilson, The World of Charles Dickens; Edmund Wilson's pathbreaking essay "Dickens: The Two Scrooges" in The Wound and the Bow; J. Hillis Miller, Charles Dickens: The World of His Novйis; G.K Chesterton, Charles Dickens: A Criticai Study, a brilliant study; George Orwell, "Dickens" in Dickens, Dali т■ Others.

Anthony Trollope—Virtually ali of the novйis are available in Penguin; also most from Oxford U. Press, Everyman, and Ayer.

Further reading: Victoria Glendenning, Anthony Trollope; Robert H. Soper, The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollope; N. John Hall, Trollope: A Biography. Old but still inter­esting is Elizabeth Bowen's Anthony Trollope: A New Judgement. See also James R. Kincaid, The Novйis of Anthony Trollope.

The Brontк Sisters—Among the many available editions of Emily's Wuthering Heights note especially: Riverside, ed. V.S. Pritchett; Penguin, ed. David Daiches. Penguin publishes a large paperback that also contains Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Separate editions of Jane Eyre are widely available.

Further reading: Though of course somewhat outmoded by sub- sequent scholarship, Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontк still offers an interesting picture of the whole family. See also Muriel Spark's Emily Bronte: Her Life and Work. Other informative books: Irene Cooper Willis, The Brontкs; Thomas Winnifirith, The Brontиs; Winifred Gerin, Emily Bronte: A Biography; Juliet Barker, The Brontиs.