Novels for students
Subtitle: presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels
By: Sara Constantakis, project editor
Series: Gale virtual reference library; Gale virtual reference library
Publisher: Gale
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9781414449470; 9781414441696
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary); Literature; Fiction; Study and teaching (Higher); History and criticism
Description: 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.
Notes: "ISSN 1094-3552."

Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: The bonesetter's daughter  -- by Amy Tan; title: Cold Sassy tree  -- by Olive Ann Burns; title: Dune  -- by Frank Herbert; title: Ivanhoe  -- by Walter Scott; title: The namesake  -- by Jhumpa Lahiri; title: The power and the glory  -- by Graham Greene; title: The princess bride  -- by William Goldman; title: The prince and the pauper  -- by Mark Twain; title: Reservation blues  -- by Sherman Alexie; title: The Scarlet Pimpernel  -- by Emmuska Orczy; title: Speak  -- by Laurie Halse Anderson; title: A tree grows in Brooklyn  -- by Betty Smith; title: When rain clouds gather  -- by Bessie Head; title: Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values -- by Robert Pirsig.