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STUDY HOWTO STUDY HOW TO STUDYHOW TO STUDY HOW TOSTUDY HOW TO STUDY HOWTO STUDY HOW TO STUDYHOW TO STUDY HOW TOSTUDY HOW TO STUDY HOWTO STUDY HOW TO STUDYHOW TO STUDY HOW TOSTUDY HOW TO STUDY HOWTO STUDY HOW TO STUDYNEWLY REVISED AND EXPANDEDMACMILLAN  \nHOW TO STUDY LITERATUREGeneral Editors:John Peck and Martin Coyle  \nHOW TO STUDYA NOVEL  \nSecond Edition  \nIN THE SAME SERIES  \nHow to Begin Studying English Literature*Nicholas MarshHow to Study a Jane Austen Novel Vvien JonesHow to Study Chaucer Robert Pope  \nHow to Study a Joseph Conrad Novel Brian SpittlesHow to Study a Charles Dickens Novel Keith SelbyHow to study an E.M.Forster Novel Nigel MessengerHow to Study a Thomas Hardy Novel John PeckHow to Study a D.H.Lawrence Novel Nigel MessengerHow to Study Milton David Keams  \nHow to Study Modern Drama Kenneth PickeringHow to Study Modern Poetry Tony CurtisHow to Study a Novel*John PeckHow to Study a Poet John Peck  \nHow to Study a Renaissance Play Chris ColesHow to Study Romantic Poetry Paul O'Flinn  \nHow to Study a Shakespeare Play*John Peck and Martin CoyleLiterary Terms and Criticism*John Peck and Martin CoylePractical Criticism John Peck and Martin Coyle  \n*Now in a second edition  \n\n| Series Standing Order  \u003Cbr>f you would like to receive future itles in this series as they are  \u003Cbr>published,you can make use of our standing order facility.To place a  \u003Cbr>standing order please contact your bookseller or,in case of difficulty,  \u003Cbr>write to us at the address below with your name and address and the  \u003Cbr>name of the series.Please state with which title you wish to begin  \u003Cbr>your standing order.(If you live outside the UK we may not have  \u003Cbr>the rights for your area,in which case we will forward your order to  \u003Cbr>the publisher concerned.)  \u003Cbr>Standing Order Service,Macmillan Distribution Ltd,  \u003Cbr>Houndmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire,RG212XS,England   |\n| --- |\n\nHOW TO STUDY ANOVEL  \n# Second Edition\n\nJohn Peck  \nCJohn Peck 1983,1995  \nAll rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmission ofthis publication may be made without written permission.  \nNo paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copied ortransmitted save with written permission or in accordance withthe provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988,or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copyingissued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,90 Tottenham CourtRoad,London W1P9HE.  \nAny person who does any unauthorised act in relation to thispublication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civilclaims for damages.  \nFirst edition 1983  \nReprinted 1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1990(twice),1992,1993Second edition 1995  \nPublished by  \nMACMILLAN PRESS LTD  \nHoundmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG212XSand London  \nCompanies and representativesthroughout the world  \nISBN 978-0-333-63994-8  \nISBN 978-1-349-13783-1(eBook)  \nDOI 10.1007/978-1-349-13783-1  \nA catalogue record for this book is availablefrom the British Library.  \n10  9  8  76  5   4   3  2   104030201009998979695  \nFor Alison  \nContents  \nGeneral editors'preface  \n1X  \nPreface  \nX  \nPART ONE  \n1 Tackling the text  \n3  \nNovels discussed:Waverley,by Sir Walter ScottSons and Lovers,by D.H.Lawrence  \n2 Constructing a basic analysis  \n29  \nNovels discussed:Mansfield Park,by Jane AustenJane Eyre,by Charlotte Bronte  \n3 Looking at aspects of a novelNovel discussed:The Portrait of a Lady,by Henry James  \n4  \n4 Coping with different kinds of novel  \n61  \nNovels discussed:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,by James JoyceMartin Chuzzlewit,by Charles Dickens  \n5 Tackling a long and difficult novel81Novels discussed:Middlemarch,by George EliotBleak House,by Charles Dickens  \n6 Writing an essay97  \n7 Writing a more complicated essay111  \nPART TWO  \n## 8 New approaches\n\nNovels discussed:Jane Eyre,by Charlotte BronteWuthering Heights,by Emily BronteThe Mill on the Floss,by George 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