title: The Atlas of Literature
author: Malcolm Bradbury
description: A novel comes alive to the reader when he or she can relate to its landscape or themes. The Victorian world of Dickens and Austen, for example, becomes much clearer to a reader removed from it by 150 years through such excellent surveys as <i>What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew</i> (Simon &amp; Schuster, 1993). Novelist and retired professor of American Studies Malcolm Bradbury has compiled a much more inclusive picture of the world of literature in <i>The Atlas of Literature</i>.
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  # Cold Hand in Mine
  
  Robert Aickman
  
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  # Table of Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  [Title Page](9780571316410_booktitlepage.html)  
  
  
  [Dedication](9780571316410_dedication.html)  
  
  
  [Epigraph](9780571316410_epigraph.html)  
  
  
  [Uneasy Does It: An Introduction to Robert Aickman by Reece
  Shearsmith](9780571316410_introduction.html)  
  
  
  [The Swords](9780571316410_chapter_01.html)  
  
  
  [The Real Road to the Church](9780571316410_chapter_02.html)  
  
  
  [Niemandswasser](9780571316410_chapter_03.html)  
  
  
  [Pages from a Young Girl’s Journal](9780571316410_chapter_04.html)  
  
  
  [The Hospice](9780571316410_chapter_05.html)  
  
  
  [The Same Dog](9780571316410_chapter_06.html)  
  
  
  [Meeting Mr Millar](9780571316410_chapter_07.html)  
  
  
  [The Clock Watcher](9780571316410_chapter_08.html)  
  
  
  [Memories of a Friend: An Afterword by Jean
  Richardson](9780571316410_afterword.html)  
  
  
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