Novels for students. presenting analysis, context, and crticism on commonly studied novels / Volume 6 :

Novels for students. presenting analysis, context, and crticism on commonly studied novels / Volume 6 : Marie Rose Napierkowski and Deborah A. Stanley, editors. - 1 online resource (xix, 366 pages) : illustrations, photographs. - Gale eBooks .

"ISSN 1094-3552." Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain -- Beloved / Toni Morrison -- Brave new world / Aldous Huxley -- Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift -- The heart is a lonely hunter / Carson McCullers -- The house of the spirits / Isabel Allende -- The jungle / Upton Sinclair -- The left hand of darkness / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The old man and the sea / Ernest Hemingway -- One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- Ragtime / E.L. Doctorow -- Siddhartha / Hermann Hesse -- The stranger / Albert Camus -- Uncle Tom's cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The woman warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston.

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.



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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved.
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. Brave new world.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Gulliver's travels.
McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. Heart is a lonely hunter.
Allende, Isabel. English. Casa de los espiritus.
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968. Jungle.
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929- Left hand of darkness.
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. Old man and the sea.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918- English. Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha.
Doctorow, E. L., 1931- Ragtime.
Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962. Siddhartha.
Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. Stranger.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin.
Kingston, Maxine Hong. Woman warrior.


Fiction--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
Fiction--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.
Fiction--History and criticism.
Literature--History and criticism.

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