Friendship enables plots about rivalry, education, compassion, pity, deceit, betrayal, animosity, and breakup. It crosses boundaries of gender, class, nationality, disposition, race, age, and experience. The essays in Friendship and the Novel illustrate that friendship, in its many forms, is a central problem and abiding mystery in fiction.
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Friendship enables plots about rivalry, education, compassion, pity, deceit, betrayal, animosity, and breakup. It crosses boundaries of gender, class, nationality, disposition, race, age, and experience. The essays in Friendship and the Novel illustrate that friendship, in its many forms, is a central problem and abiding mystery in fiction.
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