Novels for students. Volume 27 [Gale EBooks electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels / Ira Mark Milne, project editor ; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan.
Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The assistant - Bernard Malamud -- Blindness - Jose Saramago -- The book of laughter and forgetting - Milan Kundera -- The golden notebook - Doris Lessing -- Ida - Gertrude Stein -- Life of Pi - Yann Martel -- Lives of girls and women - Alice Munro -- The man who loved children - Christina Stead -- My name is red - Orhan Pamuk -- The secret life of bees - Sue Monk Kidd -- The talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith -- Through the looking-glass - Lewis Carroll.
Summary
Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance.