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Title Novels for students. Volume 23 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels / Sara Constantakis, project editor ; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan.
Publication Info. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2006.
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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 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi : Gale. Available via World Wide Web.
Note Original: xix, 355 p. : ill., photos. ; 29 cm.
System Details Mode of access: Internet.
Subject McDermott, Alice. Charming Billy.
Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- English patient.
Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's rainbow.
Brookner, Anita. Hotel du lac.
Cunningham, Michael, 1952- Hours.
Greenberg, Joanne. I never promised you a rose garden.
Kertesz, Imre, 1929- Kaddish for a child not born.
Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Middlemarch.
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's children.
Duong, Thu Huong. Paradise of the blind.
Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. Razor's edge.
Shields, Carol. Stone diaries.
Lederer, William J., 1912- Ugly American.
Burdick, Eugene. Ugly American.
Welch, James, 1940- Winter in the blood.
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 Constantakis, Sara, editor.
Gale Group.
ISBN 9781414410531 (electronic book)
1414410530 (electronic book)
9780787669461
0787669466
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