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Novels for students. Volume 9 : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels / Deborah A. Stanley and Ira Mark Milne, editors ; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gale eBooksPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, [(c)2000.]Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 326 pages) : illustrations, photographsContent type:
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781414428024
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version --: LOC classification:
  • PN3385
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Contents:
Always coming home / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Billy Budd, sailor: an inside narrative / Herman Melville -- Deliverance / James Dickey -- The fixer / Bernard Malamud -- Gone with the wind / Margaret Mitchell -- In the time of the butterflies / Julia Alvarez -- The last of the Mohicans / James Fenimore Cooper -- Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov -- On the beach / Nevil Shute -- Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen -- The prince / Niccolo Machiavelli -- Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe -- Roots: the story of an American family / Alex Haley -- Rubyfruit jungle / Rita Mae Brown -- Tex / S.E. Hinton.
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.

Always coming home / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Billy Budd, sailor: an inside narrative / Herman Melville -- Deliverance / James Dickey -- The fixer / Bernard Malamud -- Gone with the wind / Margaret Mitchell -- In the time of the butterflies / Julia Alvarez -- The last of the Mohicans / James Fenimore Cooper -- Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov -- On the beach / Nevil Shute -- Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen -- The prince / Niccolo Machiavelli -- Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe -- Roots: the story of an American family / Alex Haley -- Rubyfruit jungle / Rita Mae Brown -- Tex / S.E. Hinton.

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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