Novels for students.  presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels /  Volume 23 : 
Sara Constantakis, project editor ; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan. 
 - 1 online resource (xix, 355 pages) :  illustrations, photographs. 
 - Gale eBooks .
<br/><br/> "ISSN 1094-3552."  Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue:  Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781414410531 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>McDermott, Alice. Charming Billy. <br/>Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-  English patient. <br/>Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's rainbow. <br/>Brookner, Anita. Hotel du lac. <br/>Cunningham, Michael, 1952-  Hours. <br/>Greenberg, Joanne. I never promised you a rose garden. <br/>Kert�esz, Imre, 1929-2016.  English.  Kaddis a meg nem sz�uletett gyermek�ert. <br/>Eliot, George, 1819-1880.  Middlemarch. <br/>Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's children. <br/>D��ng, Thu H��ng. English.  Nh��ng thi�en ����ng m�u. <br/>Maugham, W. Somerset 1874-1965.  Razor's edge. <br/>Shields, Carol. Stone diaries. <br/>Lederer, William J., 1912-2009.  Ugly American. <br/>Burdick, Eugene. Ugly American. <br/>Welch, James, 1940-  Winter in the blood. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fiction--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.<br/>Fiction--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.<br/>Fiction--History and criticism.<br/>Literature--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN3385