Bibliograph

Novels for students. :, presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels /, Ira Mark Milne and Timothy Sisler, project editors; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan, Volume 20

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Novels for students. :, presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels /, Ira Mark Milne and Timothy Sisler, project editors; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan, Volume 20

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

photographsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Novels for students. :

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

276877840

Responsibility statement

Ira Mark Milne and Timothy Sisler, project editors; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan

Series statement

Gale eBooks

Sub title

presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels /

Summary

Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism

Table Of Contents

A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court / Mark Twain -- Hard times / Charles Dickens -- The house of the seven gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The hunchback of Notre Dame / Victor Hugo -- Maggie : a girl of the streets / Stephen Crane -- The phantom of the opera / Gaston Leroux -- The picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde -- Silas Marner / George Eliot -- Summer / Edith Wharton -- This side of paradise / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Treasure island / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The war of the worlds / H.G. Wells -- The wind in the willows / Kenneth Grahame

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