- Additional Authors
- Constantakis, Sara.
- 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 23 (Online)
- Subject
- McDermott, Alice
- Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-
- Pynchon, Thomas
- Brookner, Anita
- Cunningham, Michael, 1952-
- Greenberg, Joanne
- Kertesz, Imre, 1929-
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880
- Rushdie, Salman
- Duong, Thu Huong
- Maugham, W. Somerset 1874-1965
- Shields, Carol
- Lederer, William J., 1912-
- Burdick, Eugene
- Welch, James, 1940-2003
- 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
- Charming Billy - Alice McDermott -- The English patient - Michael Ondaatje -- Gravity's rainbow - Thomas Pynchon -- Hotel du lac - Anita Brookner -- The hours - Michael Cunningham -- I never promised you a rose garden - Joanne Greenberg -- Kaddish for a child not born - Imre Kertesz -- Middlemarch - George Eliot -- Midnight's children - Salman Rushdie -- Paradise of the blind - Duong Thu Huong -- The razor's edge - W. Somerset Maugham -- The stone diaries - Carol Shields -- The ugly American - William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick -- Winter in the blood - James Welch.
- OCLC
- ssj0000515605
- Title
Novels for students. Volume 23 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels / Sara Constantakis, project editor ; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan.
- Imprint
Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2006.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Original Version
Original: xix, 355 p. : ill., photos. ; 29 cm.
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- Added Author
Constantakis, Sara.