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 Set This House on Fire Information
499 words, approx. 2 pages
 Set This House on Fire, is a novel by William Styron, set in Italy centred on the themes of evil and redemption. The narrator, Leverett, is a lawyer from the American Southeast, but the story is primarily told through the recollections of its... 
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 The Record (Bergen County, NJ) Home Chemist Sets House On Fire
01/19/1995: 393 words, approx. 1 pages RITA MALLEY, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 01-19-1995 HOME CHEMIST SETS HOUSE ON FIRE -- HO-HO-KUS ENGINEER WAS MIXING A FUEL ADDITIVE By RITA MALLEY, Staff Writer Date: 01-19-1995, Thursday Section: NEWS Edition: All Bergen Editions -- 3 Star, 2 Star... summary from source:
Sunday News Lancaster, PA Fire set in vacant house in the city
08/14/2005: 1,214 words, approx. 4 pages Police, Fire logCity firefighters worked in sweltering heat to put out a blaze intentionally set in a vacant home in Lancaster Saturday afternoon. The two-alarm fire at 339 W. Grant St. was kindled in a kitchen area on the first floor and caused...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Benjamin Demott
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Everyone familiar with the shameful media treatments of Nazidom over the years has to have felt an obligation to protest…. But I wouldn't have predicted that, among American fictionists of established reputation, the author of Set This House on Fire would have been the figure who met that obligation. And certain signs in Sophie's Choice suggest that Styron isn't entirely at ease in his role. (p. 77) A long narrative (more than 500 oversized, tightly printed pages), circumstantial... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Ihab Hassan
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[Set This House on Fire is] an ambiguous novel of outrage, one that also happens to be artistically flawed…. [It] treats, in distraught and melodramatic fashion, the regeneration of Cass Kinsolving. The regeneration of Cass, bumbling, guilt-ridden drunkard that he is, dates from his murder of a degenerate rapist, Mason Flagg. We move in a foggy world which the narrator describes as "a grotesque fantasy of events lacking sequence and order …". We are witness to the degradation of ...
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