| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 324 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
| Series |
Gale virtual reference library |
|
Gale virtual reference library.
|
| Contents |
A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court / Mark Twain -- Hard times / Charles Dickens -- The house of the seven gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The hunchback of Notre Dame / Victor Hugo -- Maggie : a girl of the streets / Stephen Crane -- The phantom of the opera / Gaston Leroux -- The picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde -- Silas Marner / George Eliot -- Summer / Edith Wharton -- This side of paradise / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Treasure island / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The war of the worlds / H.G. Wells -- The wind in the willows / Kenneth Grahame |
| 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 |
|
Title from website (viewed Dec. 2, 2008) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900. Maggie, a girl of the streets.
|
|
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Hard times.
|
|
Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Silas Marner.
|
|
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. This side of paradise.
|
|
Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932. Wind in the willows.
|
|
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. House of the seven gables.
|
|
Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885. Notre-Dame de Paris.
|
|
Leroux, Gaston, 1868-1927. Fantôme de l'Opéra. English.
|
|
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. Treasure Island.
|
|
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court.
|
|
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946. War of the worlds.
|
|
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Summer
|
|
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Picture of Dorian Gray.
|
| SUBJECT |
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court (Twain, Mark) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01357196 |
|
Fantôme de l'Opéra (Leroux, Gaston) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01380734 |
|
Hard times (Dickens, Charles) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01356081 |
|
House of the seven gables (Hawthorne, Nathaniel) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01356710 |
|
Maggie, a girl of the streets (Crane, Stephen) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01356656 |
|
Notre-Dame de Paris (Hugo, Victor) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01363544 |
|
Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde, Oscar) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01357163 |
|
Silas Marner (Eliot, George) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01357730 |
|
This side of paradise (Fitzgerald, F. Scott) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01362658 |
|
Treasure Island (Stevenson, Robert Louis) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01356187 |
|
War of the worlds (Wells, H. G.) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01361827 |
|
Wind in the willows (Grahame, Kenneth) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01358149 |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 19th century.
|
|
American fiction -- 20th century.
|
|
English fiction -- 19th century.
|
|
Fiction -- History and criticism.
|
|
Fiction -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States
|
|
Fiction -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States
|
|
Fiction -- 19th century.
|
|
Fiction -- 20th century.
|
|
Literature -- History and criticism.
|
|
American fiction.
|
|
English fiction.
|
|
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.
|
|
Sisler, Timothy J.
|
|
Thomson Gale (Firm)
|
| ISBN |
0787669431 |
|
0787694169 |
|
9780787669430 |
|
9780787694166 |
