The Novel
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- Start reading: Chapter One
- Complete text of The Last Days of Pompeii
- Theme & subject
- Genre, mode, & style
- Setting & description
- Image & symbol
- Characterization
- Plot and Structure
- Literary relations: sources, influences, confluences
Biographical matters
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Cultural contexts
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Last modified 4 March 2016