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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  ### Jacob Abbott
  
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
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  PREFACE
  
  
  HIS CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH
  
  
  THE EXPEDITION INTO SPAIN.
  
  
  ACCESSION TO THE THRONE.
  
  
  BUCKINGHAM
  
  
  THE KING AND HIS PREROGATIVE.
  
  
  ARCHBISHOP LAUD
  
  
  THE EARL OF STRAFFORD.
  
  
  DOWNFALL OF STRAFFORD AND LAUD
  
  
  CIVIL WAR.
  
  
  THE CAPTIVITY.
  
  
  TRIAL AND DEATH.
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### PREFACE
  
  
  
  
  
    
  THE history of the life of every individual who has, for any reason,
  
  
  attracted extensively the attention of mankind, has been written in a
  
  
  great variety of ways by a multitude of authors, and persons sometimes
  
  
  wonder why we should have so many different accounts of the same thing.
  
  
  The reason is, that each one of these accounts is intended for a
  
  
  different set of readers, who read with ideas and purposes widely
  
  
  dissimilar from each other. Among the twenty millions of people in the
  
  
  United States, there are perhaps two millions, bet