Format:
Ebook, Electronic Resources, Book
Title:
Novels for students. Volume 39 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels / Sara Constantakis, project editor ; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan.
Call Number:
eBook
Web Site:
Publisher, Date:
Detroit : Gale, 2012.
Description:
1 online resource (xix, 363 p.) : ill.
Summary:
Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance.
Series:
Gale virtual reference library
Subjects:
Fiction -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
Fiction -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States.
Fiction -- Stories, plots, etc.
Fiction -- History and criticism.
Other Author:
Constantakis, Sara, editor.
Jordan, Anne Devereaux.
Gale Group.
Contents:
American born Chinese / Gene Leun Yang -- Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress / Dai Sijie -- The cruel sea / Nicholas Monsarrat -- The grapes of wrath -- Half a life / Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul -- The help / Kathryn Stockett -- Housekeeping / Marilynne Robinson -- The human comedy / William Saroyan -- Montana 1948 / Larry Watson -- The moonstone / Wilkie Collins -- Number the stars / Lois Lowry -- Olive Kitteridge / Elizabeth Strout -- Oryx and crake / Margaret Atwood -- The remains of the day.
ISBN:
9781414473680 (electronic book)
1414473680 (electronic book)
* 9781414467023
* 1414467028