Novels for students. presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels / Volume 28 : Ira Mark Milne, project editor. - 1 online resource (xix, 349 pages) : illustrations, photographs. - Gale eBooks .

"ISSN 1094-3552." Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy -- Cannery row / John Steinbeck -- Cat's cradle / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- The dew breaker / Edwidge Danticat -- The good soldier / Ford Madox Ford -- The hound of the Baskervilles / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Hullabaloo in the guava orchard / Kiran Desai -- Nervous conditions / Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Northanger Abbey / Jane Austen -- Notes from underground / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- So far from the bamboo grove / Yoko Kawashima Watkins -- Sweetgrass / Jan Hudson -- The waves / Virginia Woolf -- White Noise / Don DeLillo.

Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance.



9781414438320


Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. English. Anna Karenina.
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. Cannery row.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat's cradle.
Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- Dew breaker.
Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939. Good soldier.
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930. Hound of the Baskervilles.
Desai, Kiran, 1971- Hullabaloo in the guava orchard.
Dangarembga, Tsitsi. Nervous conditions.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Northanger Abbey.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. English. Zapiski iz podpolia.
Watkins, Yoko Kawashima. So far from the bamboo grove.
Hudson, Jan, 1954- Sweetgrass.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Waves.
DeLillo, Don. White noise.


Fiction--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
Fiction--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.
Fiction--History and criticism.
Literature--History and criticism.

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