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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 20 (Online)
- Subject
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
- Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885
- Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900
- Leroux, Gaston, 1868-1927
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1896-1940
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
- Wells, H. G. 1866-1946
- Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932
- Fiction > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States
- Fiction > Study and teaching (Secondary) > United States
- Fiction > 20th century
- Fiction > 19th century
- American fiction > 20th century
- American fiction > 19th century
- English fiction > 19th century
- 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
- A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court - Mark Twain -- Hard times - Charles Dickens -- The house of the seven gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo -- Maggie : a girl of the streets - Stephen Crane -- The phantom of the opera - Gaston Leroux -- The picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde -- Silas Marner - George Eliot -- Summer - Edith Wharton -- This side of paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Treasure island - Robert Louis Stevenson -- The war of the worlds - H.G. Wells -- The wind in the willows - Kenneth Grahame.
- OCLC
- ssj0000081101
- Title
Novels for students. Volume 20 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels / Ira Mark Milne and Timothy Sisler, project editors; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan.
- Imprint
Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2005.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Original Version
Original: xix, 324 p. : ill., photos. ; 29 cm.
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Milne, Ira Mark.
Sisler, Timothy.