Novels for students.

Novels for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels / Volume 40 [electronic resource] : Sara Constantakis, project editor ; foreword by Anne Deveraux Jordan. - Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2012. - 1 online resource (xix, 360 p.) : ill. - Gale virtual reference library .

"ISSN 1094-3552."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The bingo palace / Louise Erdrich -- Clueless -- The color purple -- The corrections / Jonathan Franzen -- The idiot / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Jazz / Toni Morrison -- King Solomon's mines / H. Rider Haggard -- The mists of Avalon / Marion Zimmer Bradley -- Monster / Walter Dean Myers -- The ox-bow incident / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- The road / Cormac McCarthy -- Stranger in a strange land / Robert A. Heinlein -- Waiting for the rain / Sheila Gordon -- White teeth / Zadie Smith.

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.

9781414482316 (electronic book) 1414482310 (electronic book)


Fiction--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
Fiction--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.
Fiction--Stories, plots, etc.
Fiction--History and criticism.