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Novels for students. Volume 8 : 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)2000.]Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 332 pages) : illustrations, photographsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781414428017
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version --: LOC classification:
  • PN3385
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Contents:
As I lay dying / William Faulkner -- The brothers Karamazov / Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky -- The call of the wild / Jack London -- Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra -- Empire of the sun / J.G. Ballard -- The hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien -- Kindred / Octavia Butler -- The master and Margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov -- The old gringo / Carlos Fuentes -- On the road / Jack Kerouac -- Sister Carrie / Theodore Dreiser -- Song of Solomon / Toni Morrison -- Ten little Indians / Agatha Christie -- them / Joyce Carol Oates -- To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf.
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.

As I lay dying / William Faulkner -- The brothers Karamazov / Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky -- The call of the wild / Jack London -- Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra -- Empire of the sun / J.G. Ballard -- The hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien -- Kindred / Octavia Butler -- The master and Margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov -- The old gringo / Carlos Fuentes -- On the road / Jack Kerouac -- Sister Carrie / Theodore Dreiser -- Song of Solomon / Toni Morrison -- Ten little Indians / Agatha Christie -- them / Joyce Carol Oates -- To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf.

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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