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Novels for students. Volume 1 : presenting analysis, context, and crticism on commonly studied novels / Diane Telgen, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gale eBooksPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale, [(c)1997.]Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 350 pages) : illustrations, photographsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781414427942
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version --: LOC classification:
  • PN3385
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Contents:
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain -- The bell jar / Sylvia Plath -- Black Boy / Richard Wright -- The bluest eye / Toni Morrison -- Catch-22 / Joseph Heller -- The catcher in the rye / J.D. Salinger -- Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury -- A farewell to arms / Ernest Hemingway -- Frankenstein / Mary Shelley -- The joy luck club / Amy Tan -- Love in the time of cholera / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Of mice and men / John Steinbeck -- Ordinary people / Judith Guest -- Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen -- The scarlet letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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.
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"ISSN 1094-3552."

Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain -- The bell jar / Sylvia Plath -- Black Boy / Richard Wright -- The bluest eye / Toni Morrison -- Catch-22 / Joseph Heller -- The catcher in the rye / J.D. Salinger -- Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury -- A farewell to arms / Ernest Hemingway -- Frankenstein / Mary Shelley -- The joy luck club / Amy Tan -- Love in the time of cholera / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Of mice and men / John Steinbeck -- Ordinary people / Judith Guest -- Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen -- The scarlet letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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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