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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gale eBooksPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale, [(c)2006.]Description: 1 online resource (xix, 355 pages) : illustrations, photographsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781414410531
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version --: LOC classification:
  • PN3385
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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.
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.

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.

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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