Novels for students. presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels / Volume 9 :

Novels for students. presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels / Volume 9 : Deborah A. Stanley and Ira Mark Milne, editors ; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan. - 1 online resource (xviii, 326 pages) : illustrations, photographs. - Gale eBooks .

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

Includes bibliographies and index.

Always coming home / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Billy Budd, sailor: an inside narrative / Herman Melville -- Deliverance / James Dickey -- The fixer / Bernard Malamud -- Gone with the wind / Margaret Mitchell -- In the time of the butterflies / Julia Alvarez -- The last of the Mohicans / James Fenimore Cooper -- Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov -- On the beach / Nevil Shute -- Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen -- The prince / Niccolo Machiavelli -- Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe -- Roots: the story of an American family / Alex Haley -- Rubyfruit jungle / Rita Mae Brown -- Tex / S.E. Hinton.

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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Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929- Always coming home.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Billy Budd.
Dickey, James. Deliverance.
Malamud, Bernard. Fixer.
Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949. Gone with the wind.
Alvarez, Julia. In the time of the butterflies.
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Last of the Mohicans.
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Lolita.
Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960. On the beach.
Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962. Out of Africa.
Machiavelli, Niccolo, 1469-1527. English. Principe.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe.
Haley, Alex. Roots.
Brown, Rita Mae. Rubyfruit jungle.
Hinton, S. E. Tex.


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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