Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

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Does Becky kill Jos at the end of Vanity Fair? Why does no one notice that Hetty is pregnant in Adam Bede? How, exactly, does Victor Frankenstein make his monster?


Readers of Victorian fiction often find themselves tripping up on seeming anomalies, enigmas and mysteries in their favourite novels.








In Is Heathcliff a Murderer? John Sutherland investigates 34 conundrums of n...