| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 355 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
| Series |
Gale virtual reference library |
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Gale virtual reference library.
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| Contents |
Charming Billy / Alice McDermott -- The English patient / Michael Ondaatje -- Gravity's rainbow / Thomas Pynchon -- Hotel du lac / Anita Brookner -- The hours / Michael Cunningham -- I never promised you a rose garden / Joanne Greenberg -- Kaddish for a child not born / Imre Kertesz -- Middlemarch / George Eliot -- Midnight's children / Salman Rushdie -- Paradise of the blind / Duong Thu Huong -- The razor's edge / W. Somerset Maugham -- The stone diaries / Carol Shields -- The ugly American / William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick -- Winter in the blood / James Welch |
| 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 |
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Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan |
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Title from website (viewed Dec. 2, 2008) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Brookner, Anita. Hotel du lac
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Burdick, Eugene. Ugly American
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Cunningham, Michael, 1952- Hours.
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Dương, Thu Hương. Những thiên đường mù. English
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Middlemarch.
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Greenberg, Joanne. I never promised you a rose garden.
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Kertész, Imre, 1929-2016. Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért. English
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Lederer, William J., 1912-2009. Ugly American
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Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. Razor's edge
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McDermott, Alice. Charming Billy
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Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- English patient
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Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's rainbow
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Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's children.
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Shields, Carol. Stone diaries
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Welch, James, 1940-2003. Winter in the blood
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| SUBJECT |
English patient (Ondaatje, Michael) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01389162 |
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Hotel du Lac (Brookner, Anita) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01914319 |
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Hours (Cunningham, Michael) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01398039 |
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Middlemarch (Eliot, George) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01356518 |
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Midnight's children (Rushdie, Salman) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01378003 |
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Razor's edge (Maugham, W. Somerset) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01370586 |
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Ugly American (Lederer, William J.) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01360300 |
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Fiction -- History and criticism.
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Fiction -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States
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Fiction -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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Fiction -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Fiction -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
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Fiction.
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Literature.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Constantakis, Sara.
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Thomson Gale (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0787669466 |
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1414410530 |
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9780787669461 |
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9781414410531 |
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