Novels for students. Volume 21 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels / Ira Mark Milne and Timothy Sisler, project editors ; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan.

Contributor(s): Series: Gale virtual reference libraryPublication details: Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2005.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 348 p.) : ill., photosISBN:
  • 9781414405698 (electronic book)
  • 1414405693 (electronic book)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Novels for students, Volume 21.DDC classification:
  • 23
LOC classification:
  • PN3385
Online resources:
Contents:
Dusklands / J.M. Coetzee -- Emma / Jane Austen -- The French lieutenant's woman / John Fowles -- I, Claudius / Robert Graves -- The immoralist / Andre Gide -- Juneteenth / Ralph Ellison -- Kim / Rudyard Kipling -- The Maltese falcon / Dashiell Hammett -- Nausea / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Parable of the sower / Octavia Butler -- Tambourines to glory / Langston Hughes -- The violent bear it away / Flannery O'Connor.
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.
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"ISSN 1094-3552."

Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dusklands / J.M. Coetzee -- Emma / Jane Austen -- The French lieutenant's woman / John Fowles -- I, Claudius / Robert Graves -- The immoralist / Andre Gide -- Juneteenth / Ralph Ellison -- Kim / Rudyard Kipling -- The Maltese falcon / Dashiell Hammett -- Nausea / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Parable of the sower / Octavia Butler -- Tambourines to glory / Langston Hughes -- The violent bear it away / Flannery O'Connor.

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.

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