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Title:
Novels for students. Volume 6 presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels
Series:
Gale virtual reference library
Publication Information:
Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, c1999.
Publication Date(s):
1999
ISBN:
9781414427997
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
General Note:
"ISSN 1094-3552."

Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan.
Abstract:
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.
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.
System Details:
Mode of access: Internet.
Format:
Electronic Resources
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