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Novels for students. Volume 5 : presenting analysis, context, and crticism on commonly studied novels / Sheryl Ciccarelli, Marie Rose Napierkowski, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gale eBooksPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale, [(c)1999.]Description: 1 online resource (xx, 395 pages) : illustrations, photographsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781414427980
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version --: LOC classification:
  • PN3385
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Contents:
The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / Ernest J. Gaines -- The bean trees / Barbara Kingsolver -- The color purple / Alice Walker -- Do androids dream of electric sheep? / Philip K. Dick -- Ender's game / Orson Scott Card -- Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton -- Giants in the earth / O.E. Rolvaag -- How the Garcia girls lost their accents / Julia Alvarez -- Like water for chocolate / Laura Esquivel -- Love medicine / Louise Erdrich -- Les miserables / Victor Hugo -- One hundred years of solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The outsiders / S.E. Hinton -- The pearl / John Steinbeck -- The sun also rises / Ernest Hemingway -- A tale of two cities / Charles Dickens.
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 autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / Ernest J. Gaines -- The bean trees / Barbara Kingsolver -- The color purple / Alice Walker -- Do androids dream of electric sheep? / Philip K. Dick -- Ender's game / Orson Scott Card -- Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton -- Giants in the earth / O.E. Rolvaag -- How the Garcia girls lost their accents / Julia Alvarez -- Like water for chocolate / Laura Esquivel -- Love medicine / Louise Erdrich -- Les miserables / Victor Hugo -- One hundred years of solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The outsiders / S.E. Hinton -- The pearl / John Steinbeck -- The sun also rises / Ernest Hemingway -- A tale of two cities / Charles Dickens.

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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