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Title Novels for students. Volume 24 : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels / Ira Mark Milne, project editor ; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan
Published Detroit, Mich. : Gale, [2007]
©2007
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 330 pages) : illustrations, photographs
Series Gale virtual reference library
Gale virtual reference library.
Contents The bone people / Keri Hulme -- The bridge of San Luis Rey / Thornton Wilder -- Foreign affairs / Alison Lurie -- Forever ... / Judy Blume -- Gilead / Marilynne Robinson -- Light in August / William Faulkner -- The lion, the witch and the wardrobe / C.S. Lewis -- Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides -- The poisonwood bible / Barbara Kingsolver -- Steppenwolf / Hermann Hesse -- Toward the end of time / John Updike -- We were the Mulvaneys / Joyce Carol Oates
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
Notes Each entry Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism
Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Blume, Judy. Forever
Eugenides, Jeffrey. Middlesex
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Light in August.
Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962. Steppenwolf.
Hulme, Keri. Bone people
Kingsolver, Barbara. Poisonwood Bible.
Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. Lion, the witch, and the wardrobe.
Lurie, Alison. Foreign affairs
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- We were the Mulvaneys
Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead
Updike, John. Toward the end of time
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. Bridge of San Luis Rey.
SUBJECT Bone people (Hulme, Keri) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01379565
Bridge of San Luis Rey (Wilder, Thornton) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01362077
Forever (Blume, Judy) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01369023
Gilead (Robinson, Marilynne) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01913759
Light in August (Faulkner, William) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01356389
Lion, the witch, and the wardrobe (Lewis, C. S.) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01366189
Middlesex (Eugenides, Jeffrey) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01915399
Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver, Barbara) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01393120
Steppenwolf (Hesse, Hermann) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01357022
Subject Fiction -- History and criticism.
Fiction -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States
Fiction -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States
Literature -- History and criticism.
Fiction -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Fiction -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Fiction.
Literature.
United States.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Milne, Ira Mark.
Thomson Gale (Firm)
ISBN 1414410549
9781414410548