Savage Reprisals
Subtitle: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780393325096
First sentence: IF THERE WAS ONE CRITICAL MOMENT IN HIS NOVELS that was Charles Dickens's specialty, and that unfailingly appealed to the Victorians' ready tear ducts, it was the emotional death scene.