Physical description |
volumes <1-5 >: illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm |
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Each entry or chapter focuses on one novel. Each entry heading lists the full name of the novel, the author's name, and the date of the novel's publication. The following elements are contained in each entry: introduction, author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical and cultural context, critical overview, sources, for furhter study, and criticism. |
Contents |
V.1. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain -- The bell jar / Sylvia Plath -- Black boy / Richard Wright -- The bluest eye / Toni Morrison -- Catch-22 / Joseph Heller -- Catcher in the rye / J. D. Salinger -- Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury -- A farewell to arms / Ernest Hemingway -- Frankenstein / Mary Shelley -- The joy luck club / Amy Tan -- Love in the time of Cholera / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Of mice and men / John Steinbeck -- Ordinary people / Judith Guest -- Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen - The scarlet letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne. |
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V.2. The chocolate war / Robert Cormier -- Dinner at the homesick restaurant / Anne Tyler -- Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes -- The great gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- The house on mango street / Sandra Cisneros -- I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou -- Invisible man / Ralph Ellison -- Lord of the flies / William Golding -- My Antonia / Willa Cather -- One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey -- A separate peace / John Knowles -- Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe -- To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee -- Wuthering heights / Emily Bronte. |
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V.3. Animal farm / George Orwell -- Annie John / Jamaica Kincaid -- The awakening / Kate Chopin -- Crime and punishment / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Cry, the beloved country / Alan Paton -- Democracy / Joan Didion -- Ellen Foster / Kaye Gibbons -- The giver / Lois Lowry -- Grendel / John Gardner -- Obasan / Joy Kogawa -- A passage to India / E. M. Forster -- Slaughterhouse-Five / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Thomas Hardy -- Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston -- Wise blood / Flannery O'Connor -- A yellow raft in blue water / Michael Dorris. |
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V.4. All quiet on the Western Front / Erich Maria Remarque -- Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The chosen / Chaim Potok -- Go tell it on the mountain / James Baldwin -- Great expectations / Charles Dickens -- The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood -- In country / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte -- July's people / Nardine Gordimer -- The natural / Bernard Malamud -- Night / Eliezer Wiesel -- The red badge of courage / Stephen Crane -- Seize the day / Saul Bellow -- The sound and the fury / William Faulkner -- Winesberg, Ohio / Sherwood Anderson -- The women of Brewster Place / Gloria Naylor. |
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V.5. The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / Ernest J. Gaines -- The bean trees / Barbara Kingsolver -- The color purple / Alice Walker -- Do Androids dream of electric sheep? / Philip K. Dick -- Ender's game / Orson Scott Card -- Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton -- Giants in the earth / O.E. Rolvaag -- How the Garcia girls lost their accents / Julia Alvarez -- Like water for chocolate / Laura Esquivel -- Love medicine / Louise Erdrich -- Les Miserables / Victor Hugo -- One hundred years of solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The outsiders / S.E. Hinton -- The pearl / John Steinbeck -- The sun also rises / Ernest Hemingway -- A tale of two cities / Charles Dickens. |
Summary |
Give students the tools they need to make books and authors a meaningful part of their lives by introducing them to one of our "For Students" literary references. These resources are specially crafted to meet the curricular needs of high school and undergraduate college students and their teachers as well as the interests of general readers and researchers. |
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Each title in the series provides understandable, comprehensive explanations of the most commonly studied poems, novels, dramas, epics and short stories as identified by an advisory board of teachers and librarians. No other literature references furnish such a high level of coverage -- all written in an unassuming tone that users will welcome. |
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The references in the Gale Group's "For Students" series provide: -- Easy-to-read discussions of themes, plots and characters-- Easy-to-understand critical essays chosen specifically for students-- Analysis of each work's construction and historical context-- Photos, illustrations and other graphics-- And more |
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The "For Students" series includes Poetry for Students, Novels for Students, Short Stories for Students, Drama for Students, Shakespeare for Students, Shakespeare's Characters for Students and Epics for Students. They're sure to be a welcome addition to your library. |
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Each volume in the Novels for Students series contains easily accessible and context-rich discussions of the literary and historical significance of 15 works from various cultures and time periods. Each 16- to 24-page entry is divided into sections that present the work, the author and the critical response in ways that students and general patrons with limited exposure to literature can understand and appreciate. |
Other author |
Telgen, Diane.
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Subject |
Fiction -- 19th century.
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Fiction -- 20th century.
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Fiction -- History and criticism.
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Fiction -- Collections.
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ISBN |
0787616869 (v.1) |
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0787616877 (v.2) |
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0787621137 (v.3) |
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0787621145 (v.4) |
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0787621153 (v.5) |
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