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- Description
- 1 online resource.
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Novels for students. Volume 5 (Online)
- Subject
- Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019
- Kingsolver, Barbara
- Walker, Alice, 1944-
- Dick, Philip K
- Card, Orson Scott
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
- Rolvaag, O. E. 1876-1931
- Alvarez, Julia
- Esquivel, Laura, 1950-
- Erdrich, Louise
- Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885
- García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014
- Hinton, S. E
- Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
- Fiction > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States
- Fiction > Study and teaching (Secondary) > United States
- Fiction > History and criticism
- Literature > History and criticism
- Note
- "ISSN 1094-3552."
- Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Ernest J. Gaines -- The bean trees - Barbara Kingsolver -- The color purple - Alice Walker -- Do androids dream of electric sheep? - Philip K. Dick -- Ender's game - Orson Scott Card -- Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton -- Giants in the earth - O.E. Rolvaag -- How the Garcia girls lost their accents - Julia Alvarez -- Like water for chocolate - Laura Esquivel -- Love medicine - Louise Erdrich -- Les miserables - Victor Hugo -- One hundred years of solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The outsiders - S.E. Hinton -- The pearl - John Steinbeck -- The sun also rises - Ernest Hemingway -- A tale of two cities - Charles Dickens.
- OCLC
- ssj0000515611
- Title
Novels for students. Volume 5 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context, and crticism on commonly studied novels / Sheryl Ciccarelli, Marie Rose Napierkowski, editors.
- Imprint
Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c1999.
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Access restricted to authorized users.
- Original Version
Original: xx, 395 p. : ill., photos. ; 29 cm.
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Ciccarelli, Sheryl.
Napierkowski, Marie Rose.