The aim of the Macmillan Master Guides is to help you to appreciate the
book you are studying by providing information about it and by suggesting
ways of reading and thinking about it which will lead to a fuller understanding.
Description:
We can move on from discussion of the narrative method to consider
the use of time in the novel. Even if there is no obvious exploitation. of
time as a narrative device we cannot avoid at least some thoughts on its significance.