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EM Forster's most challenging work, "A Passage to India" has since 1924 provoked debate on topics from imperialism to modernism to ethnicity, sexuality and symbolism. This book introduces not only the novel but the key issues which surround it. It offers a contextual and biographical overview, with a chronology of important dates.

Damned upon publication for engaging with the taboo issues of female sexuality and infidelity, Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" (1899) is hailed as a key early feminist text and an important work of American literature. This book combines commentary with reprinted documents to provide an introduction to this widely debated novel.

"Emma" is widely regarded as Jane Austen's most perfectly constructed novel. This title introduces readers not only to Jane Austen's text, but also to the literary and historical contexts within which the novel was written, and to the different critical readings that it has generated, from the time of its publication to the twenty-first century.