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

Title
Novels for students. Volume 6 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context, and crticism on commonly studied novels / Marie Rose Napierkowski and Deborah A. Stanley, editors.
Publication
Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, c1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Napierkowski, Marie Rose
  • Stanley, Deborah A.
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 6 (Online)
Subject
  • Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
  • Morrison, Toni
  • Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963
  • Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
  • McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967
  • Allende, Isabel
  • Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968
  • Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018
  • Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
  • Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008
  • Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015
  • Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962
  • Camus, Albert, 1913-1960
  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
  • Kingston, Maxine Hong
  • 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 adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain -- Beloved - Toni Morrison -- Brave new world - Aldous Huxley -- Gulliver's travels - Jonathan Swift -- The heart is a lonely hunter - Carson McCullers -- The house of the spirits - Isabel Allende -- The jungle - Upton Sinclair -- The left hand of darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin -- The old man and the sea - Ernest Hemingway -- One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow -- Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse -- The stranger - Albert Camus -- Uncle Tom's cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The woman warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston.
OCLC
ssj0000515612
Title
Novels for students. Volume 6 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context, and crticism on commonly studied novels / Marie Rose Napierkowski and Deborah A. Stanley, editors.
Imprint
Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, c1999.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Original Version
Original: xix, 366 p. : ill., photos. ; 29 cm.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Napierkowski, Marie Rose.
Stanley, Deborah A.
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