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Novels for students. Volume 6 : presenting analysis, context, and crticism on commonly studied novels / Marie Rose Napierkowski and Deborah A. Stanley, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gale eBooksPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, [(c)1999.]Description: 1 online resource (xix, 366 pages) : illustrations, photographsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781414427997
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version --: LOC classification:
  • PN3385
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Contents:
The adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain -- Beloved / Toni Morrison -- Brave new world / Aldous Huxley -- Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift -- The heart is a lonely hunter / Carson McCullers -- The house of the spirits / Isabel Allende -- The jungle / Upton Sinclair -- The left hand of darkness / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The old man and the sea / Ernest Hemingway -- One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- Ragtime / E.L. Doctorow -- Siddhartha / Hermann Hesse -- The stranger / Albert Camus -- Uncle Tom's cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The woman warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston.
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 Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain -- Beloved / Toni Morrison -- Brave new world / Aldous Huxley -- Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift -- The heart is a lonely hunter / Carson McCullers -- The house of the spirits / Isabel Allende -- The jungle / Upton Sinclair -- The left hand of darkness / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The old man and the sea / Ernest Hemingway -- One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- Ragtime / E.L. Doctorow -- Siddhartha / Hermann Hesse -- The stranger / Albert Camus -- Uncle Tom's cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The woman warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston.

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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