Bibliograph

Novels for students. :, presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels /, Sara Constantakis, project editor ; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan, Volume 23

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Novels for students. :, presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels /, Sara Constantakis, project editor ; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan, Volume 23

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

276878050

Responsibility statement

Sara Constantakis, project editor ; 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

Charming Billy / Alice McDermott -- The English patient / Michael Ondaatje -- Gravity's rainbow / Thomas Pynchon -- Hotel du lac / Anita Brookner -- The hours / Michael Cunningham -- I never promised you a rose garden / Joanne Greenberg -- Kaddish for a child not born / Imre Kertesz -- Middlemarch / George Eliot -- Midnight's children / Salman Rushdie -- Paradise of the blind / Duong Thu Huong -- The razor's edge / W. Somerset Maugham -- The stone diaries / Carol Shields -- The ugly American / William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick -- Winter in the blood / James Welch

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