Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 330 p)
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ill., photos
ISBN:
9781414428031
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1414428030
Series Statement:
Gale eBooks
Content:
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.
Content:
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
Note:
"ISSN 1094-3552."
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Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780787638290
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Novels for studnets, Volume 10 Detroit, Mich : Gale Group, c2001 ISBN 9780787638290
Language:
English
URL:
Available via Gale eBooks. Click here to access
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