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Explores how the theme of friendship has been treated in a variety of literary works, from the classics of pre-modern periods to more modern works like Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Evans, Robert C., 1955- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ipswich, Massachusetts : Amenia, New York : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Grey House Publishing, [2025].
Series:Critical insights.
Subjects:
Friendship in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Exploring the Theme of Friendship
  • The Adventure of the Great Relationship: Friendship in the Sherlock Holmes Stories
  • Enobarbus and Friendship
  • The Janie-Pheoby Friendship in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Modern Fairy-Tale Friendships in Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles
  • Huck, Jim, and James: Friendship in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Percival Everett's James
  • The Hero Pair: Friendship and Genre in Shakespeare's Plays
  • Friendship and Love: Dyads and Differences in Jane Austen
  • When Friends Speak Up for Friends: Jack London's Legacy of Animal Friendship in The Call of the Wild,
  • Loneliness, Companionship, and Friendship in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
  • Friendship as Deliverance: Self, Other, and World in the Diary of Anne Frank
  • C. S. Lewis and Warren Hamilton Lewis: Conspirators, Collaborators, and Companions
  • Friendship in Langston Hughes's The Best of Simple
  • Breaking Down Boundaries: Inter-Species Friendships and Alliances in Harry Potter
  • "It's really nice to have a good career": Caring and the Futility of Friendship in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
  • Additional Works on the Theme of Friendship
  • Bibliography
  • About the Editor
  • Contributors.