Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 332 p)
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ill., photos
ISBN:
9781414428017
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1414428014
Series Statement:
Gale eBooks
Content:
As I lay dying / William Faulkner -- The brothers Karamazov / Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky -- The call of the wild / Jack London -- Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra -- Empire of the sun / J.G. Ballard -- The hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien -- Kindred / Octavia Butler -- The master and Margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov -- The old gringo / Carlos Fuentes -- On the road / Jack Kerouac -- Sister Carrie / Theodore Dreiser -- Song of Solomon / Toni Morrison -- Ten little Indians / Agatha Christie -- them / Joyce Carol Oates -- To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf.
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 9780787638276
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Novels for studnets, Volume 8 Detroit, Mich : Gale Group, c2000 ISBN 9780787638276
Language:
English
URL:
Available via Gale eBooks. Click here to access
