| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 355 pages) : illustrations, photos. |
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Gale eBooks
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| Note |
"ISSN 1094-3552." |
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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. |
| Subject |
McDermott, Alice. Charming Billy.
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Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- English patient.
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Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's rainbow.
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Brookner, Anita. Hotel du lac.
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Cunningham, Michael, 1952- Hours.
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Greenberg, Joanne. I never promised you a rose garden.
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Kertész, Imre, 1929-2016. Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért. English.
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Middlemarch.
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Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's children.
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Dương, Thu Hương. Nh̃ưng thiên đừơng mù. English.
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Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. Razor's edge.
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Shields, Carol. Stone diaries.
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Lederer, William J., 1912-2009. Ugly American.
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Burdick, Eugene. Ugly American.
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Welch, James, 1940- Winter in the blood.
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Fiction -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
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Fiction -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States.
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Fiction -- History and criticism.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Constantakis, Sara, editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Novels for students, Volume 23. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2006 9780787669461 |
| ISBN |
9781414410531 (electronic book) |
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1414410530 (electronic book) |
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9780787669461 |
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0787669466 |
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