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Background on the Text

• The Guardian: Ian McEwan: The Literary Novelist with a Popular Appeal by Andrew Anthony
• SFGate: Q & A: Ian McEwan: Getting rid of the ghosts
• Poem Hunter: 'To A Conscript Of 1940' by Sir Herbert Read

Critical Reception

• London Review of Books: Point of View by Frank Kermode
• The Telegraph: How to Write Convincing Fiction: Make it Up by Angela Lambert
• Good Reads: Atonement by Ian McEwan

Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: Part Three

• The New York Times: Eyebrows Are Raised Over Passages in a Best Seller by Ian McEwan by Alan Cowell

Whole Text Analysis: Genre

• The Age: Atoning for his Past by Mel Gussow
• British Library: The Origins of the Gothic by John Mullan (British Library Archive temporarily unavailable)

Whole Text Analysis: Themes

• The New Yorker: The Background Hum: Ian McEwan’s Art of Unease by Daniel Zalewski
• 'Atonement is a Soulful Game' by Troy Patterson

Whole Text Analysis: Attitudes and Values

• The Scotsman: First Love, Last Writes

Whole Text Analysis: Language

• The Scotsman: First Love, Last Writes
• The New Yorker: The Background Hum: Ian McEwan’s Art of Unease by Daniel Zalewski

Whole Text Analysis: Form

• Powells Books: Ian McEwan, Reinventing Himself Still
• The Writers Workshop: Average Novel Wordcount (And when is YOUR novel too long?)

Whole Text Analysis: Structure

• Powells Books: Ian McEwan, Reinventing Himself Still

Answers: Discussion Points

• The Church of England: A Catechism

Answers: Research Tasks

• The Free Dictionary: Nymph
• Paleothea: Nymph
• English Oxford Living Dictionaries: Patriarch
• Definiton: Profiteering
• Town Topics: War Profiteeing, Moral Angst and Family Strife at Intime in All my Sons (1947), Arthur Miller's First Successful Play
• BBC News: 'Profiteering' care agency 'took money' from workers By Guy Lynn and Ed Davey
• Tate: Pre-Raphaelite
• Time: Mind Your Manners: The Secrets of Switzerland's Last Traditional Finishing School By William Lee Adams
• BBC News: The Swiss Finishing School Refusing to be Finished by Imogen Foulkes
• The New Yorker: Lessons from the Last Swiss Finishing School
• Criterion
• Study.com: Psychoanalysis Theory: Definition & Explanation
• Freud File: What is Psychoanalysis?
• The Guardian: The Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover
• Poetry Foundation: Hexameter
• Literary Devices: Anapest
• New Advent: The Sacrament of Penance
• Spartacus Educational: Oswald Mosley
• The Churchill Society: The War Time Speeches of Winston Churchill: We Shall Fight on the Beaches
• Literary Devices: Stream of Consciousness
• Oxford Dictionaries
• Imperial War Museums

Videos

Webography

• Oxford Dictionaries
• Amazon: Atonement by Ian McEwan
• IanMcEwan.com
• The Guardian: Who's Afraid of Influence? By Geoff Dyer
• The Guardian: If your memories serve you well... By Hermione Lee
• Facebook: Ian McEwan
• Penguin
• London Review of Books: Point of View by Frank Kermode
• The Atlantic: The Beauty of Conjuring by Claire Messud
• SFGate: Stumbling into fate: Accidents and Choices Trip up the Characters in Ian McEwan's New Novel by David Wiegand
• SFGate: Q & A: Ian McEwan: Getting Rid of the Ghosts by David Wiegand
• The Age: Atoning for his Past by Mel Gussow
• 'Atonement is a Soulful Game' by Troy Patterson
• New Republic: When I Stop Believing in Fiction by Ian McEwan
• Free Williamsburg: Atonement by Ian McEwan Review by J. Stefan-Cole (page no longer exists)
• The Guardian: Between the Lines by John Mullan
• Powells: Ian McEwan, Reinventing Himself Still
• The Scotsman: First Love, Last Writes
• The Guardian: Beyond Fiction by John Mullan