S U M M A R Y INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................. 1- BILDUNGSROMAN NOVELS......................................................................................... 2- TWO BILDUNGSROMAN NOVELS............................................................................. 3.1- Great Expectations..................................................................................................... 3.2- Emma........................................................................................................................... CONCLUSION.................................................................................................................. BIBLIOGRAPHY................................................................................................................. INTRODUCTION A novel is a prose narrative of a certain length and complexity that deals imaginatively with human experience usually through a connected sequence of events. Most novels involve many characters and tell a complex story by placing the characters in a number of different situations. One theme commonly present in British novels …showed first 75 words of 4315 total…

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