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Novels for students. presenting analysis, context, and crticism on commonly studied novels

Title
Novels for students. Volume 5 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context, and crticism on commonly studied novels / Sheryl Ciccarelli, Marie Rose Napierkowski, editors.
Publication
Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Ciccarelli, Sheryl.
  • Napierkowski, Marie Rose.
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.
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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.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Original Version
Original: xx, 395 p. : ill., photos. ; 29 cm.
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Added Author
Ciccarelli, Sheryl.
Napierkowski, Marie Rose.
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