Book Mole: The Marriage Plot

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Mon, 10/15/2012 - 12:00am
Book Review of The Marriage Plot, by Jeffery Eugenides

 Larry Bowlden reviews Jeffery Eugenides' "The Marriage Plot", which follows the trajectories of three college seniors. Larry explores how Eugenides expresses in the voices of his key characters the influence of Charles Dickens, Edith Warton, Henry James, Anthony Trollope, Jane Austen, George Elliot, and the Brontes Sisters.

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