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Introduction -- Bakaullah's Preface -- Handless Harish: Horrible Homicide, Three Murders -- A Can of Worms: A Wily Woman and the Terrible Wages of Sin -- Ray Mahashay: A Great Conspiracy and Warring Factions -- What's this! A murder? The Sensational Mystery of a Man Caught with His Stabbed Wife -- The Aerial Corpse: A Shocking and Sensational Incident! -- A Severed Head: The Search for Unclaimed Property -- Girijasundari: A Woman Killed on the Capital's Thoroughfare -- Promoda: Havoc Wreaked by a Wife's Illicit Liaison -- Why! What's This? Suicide or Homicide -- Imprudence: The Terrible Misjudgments of a Foolish Woman.

Marxism has had an enormous impact on literary and cultural studies, and all those interested in the field need to be aware of its achievements. This collection presents the very best of recent Marxist literary criticism in one single volume. An international group of contributors provide an introduction to the development, current trends and evolution of the subject. They include such notable Marxist critics as Tony Bennett, Terry Eagleton, Edward W. Said, Raymond Williams and Fredric Jameson. A diverse range of subjects are analysed such as James Bond, Brecht, Jane Austen and the modern hist.