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- Description
- 1 online resource (xix, 363 p.) : ill.
- Summary
- Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance.
- Series Statement
- Literature resource center
- Uniform Title
- Novels for students. Volume 39 (Online)
- Subject
- Note
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- American born Chinese by Gene Leun Yang -- Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress by Dai Sijie -- The cruel sea by Nicholas Monsarrat -- The grapes of wrath -- Half a life by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul -- The help by Kathryn Stockett -- Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson -- The human comedy by William Saroyan -- Montana 1948 by Larry Watson -- The moonstone by Wilkie Collins -- Number the stars by Lois Lowry -- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout -- Oryx and crake by Margaret Atwood -- The remains of the day.
- OCLC
- ssj0000670847
- Title
Novels for students. Volume 39 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels / Sara Constantakis, project editor ; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan.
- Imprint
Detroit : Gale, 2012.
- Series
Literature resource center
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Constantakis, Sara.
Jordan, Anne Devereaux.
Gale Group.