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Title Novels for students. Volume 10 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels / Michael L. LaBlanc and Ira Mark Milne, editors ; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan.
Publication Info. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, c2001.
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Series Gale virtual reference library
Note "ISSN 1094-3552."
Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Atlas shrugged - Ayn Rand -- Breathing lessons - Anne Tyler -- A Christmas carol - Charles Dickens -- Chronicle of a death foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The dead of the house - Hannah Green -- House made of dawn - N. Scott Momaday -- Howards end - E.M. Forster -- The naked and the dead - Norman Mailer -- Pigs in heaven - Barbara Kingsolver -- Shogun: a novel of Japan - James du Maresq Clavell -- Summer of my German soldier - Bette Greene -- War and peace - Leo Tolstoy.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi : Gale. Available via World Wide Web.
Note Original: xxi, 330 p. : ill., photos. ; 29 cm.
System Details Mode of access: Internet.
Subject Rand, Ayn. Atlas shrugged.
Tyler, Anne. Breathing lessons.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Christmas carol.
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, 1928- Cronica de una muerte anunciada. English.
Green, Hannah. Dead of the house.
Momaday, N. Scott, 1934- House made of dawn.
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970. Howards end.
Mailer, Norman. Naked and the dead.
Kingsolver, Barbara. Pigs in heaven.
Clavell, James. Sho□gun.
Greene, Bette, 1934- Summer of my German soldier.
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Voina i mir. English.
Fiction -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
Fiction -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States.
Fiction -- History and criticism.
Literature -- History and criticism.
Ebook reference.
Added Author LaBlanc, Michael L., editor.
Milne, Ira Mark, editor.
Gale Group.
ISBN 9781414428031 (electronic book)
1414428030 (electronic book)
9780787638290
0787638293