Format:
Ebook, Electronic Resources, Book
Title:
Novels for students. Volume 11 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels / Elizabeth Thomason, editor ; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan.
Call Number:
eBook
Web Site:
Publisher, Date:
Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, c2001.
Description:
1 online resource (xxii, 381 p.) : ill., photos.
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.
Series:
Gale virtual reference library
Subjects:
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Age of innocence.
O'Hara, John, 1905-1970. Appointment in Samarra.
Allison, Dorothy. Bastard out of Carolina.
Shange, Ntozake. Betsey Brown.
Conroy, Frank, 1936-2005. Body and soul.
Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967. Cane.
Auel, Jean M. Clan of the cave bear.
Crutcher, Chris. Crazy horse electric game.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Power, Susan, 1961- Grass dancer.
Ellis, Bret Easton. Less than zero.
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Return of the native.
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970. Room with a view.
Laurence, Margaret. Stone Angel.
Adams, Richard, 1920- Watership down.
Fiction -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
Fiction -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States.
Fiction -- History and criticism.
Literature -- History and criticism.
Other Author:
Thomason, Elizabeth, editor.
Gale Group.
Contents:
The age of innocence / Edith Wharton -- Appointment in Samarra / John O'Hara -- Bastard out of Carolina / Dorothy Allison -- Betsey Brown / Ntozake Shange -- Body and soul / Frank Conroy -- Cane / Jean Toomer -- The clan of the cave bear / Jean Auel -- The crazy horse electric game / Chris Crutcher -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The grass dancer / Susan Power -- Less than zero / Bret Easton Ellis -- The return of the native / Thomas Hardy -- A room with a view / E.M. Forster -- The stone angel / Margaret Laurence -- Watership down / Richard Adams.
ISBN:
9781414428048 (electronic book)
1414428049 (electronic book)
* 9780787648947
* 0787648949