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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gale eBooksPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale, [(c)2005.]Description: 1 online resource (xix, 324 pages) : illustrations, photographsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780787694166
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version --: LOC classification:
  • PN3385
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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.
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.

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.

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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