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Novels for students. Volume 24 : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels / Ira Mark Milne, project editor ; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gale eBooksPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale, [(c)2007.]Description: 1 online resource (xix, 330 pages) : illustrations, photographsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781414410548
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version --: LOC classification:
  • PN3385
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Contents:
The bone people / Keri Hulme -- The bridge of San Luis Ray / Thornton Wilder -- Foreign affairs / Alison Lurie -- Forever ... / Judy Blume -- Gilead / Marilynne Robinson -- Light in August / William Faulkner -- The lion, the witch and the wardrobe / C.S. Lewis -- Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides -- The poisonwood bible / Barbara Kingsolver -- Steppenwolf / Hermann Hesse -- Toward the end of time / John Updike -- We were the Mulvaneys / Joyce Carol Oates.
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 bone people / Keri Hulme -- The bridge of San Luis Ray / Thornton Wilder -- Foreign affairs / Alison Lurie -- Forever ... / Judy Blume -- Gilead / Marilynne Robinson -- Light in August / William Faulkner -- The lion, the witch and the wardrobe / C.S. Lewis -- Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides -- The poisonwood bible / Barbara Kingsolver -- Steppenwolf / Hermann Hesse -- Toward the end of time / John Updike -- We were the Mulvaneys / Joyce Carol Oates.

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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