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Title Novels for students. Volume 23 : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels / Sara Constantakis, project editor ; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan
Published Detroit, Mich. : Gale, [2006]
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 355 pages) : illustrations, photographs
Series Gale virtual reference library
Gale virtual reference library.
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
Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Brookner, Anita. Hotel du lac
Burdick, Eugene. Ugly American
Cunningham, Michael, 1952- Hours.
Dương, Thu Hương. Những thiên đường mù. English
Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Middlemarch.
Greenberg, Joanne. I never promised you a rose garden.
Kertész, Imre, 1929-2016. Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért. English
Lederer, William J., 1912-2009. Ugly American
Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. Razor's edge
McDermott, Alice. Charming Billy
Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- English patient
Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's rainbow
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's children.
Shields, Carol. Stone diaries
Welch, James, 1940-2003. Winter in the blood
SUBJECT English patient (Ondaatje, Michael) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01389162
Hotel du Lac (Brookner, Anita) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01914319
Hours (Cunningham, Michael) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01398039
Middlemarch (Eliot, George) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01356518
Midnight's children (Rushdie, Salman) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01378003
Razor's edge (Maugham, W. Somerset) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01370586
Ugly American (Lederer, William J.) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01360300
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 Constantakis, Sara.
Thomson Gale (Firm)
ISBN 0787669466
1414410530
9780787669461
9781414410531