Novels for Students
Subtitle: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Novels
By: Sara Constantakis, Project Editor ; Foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan
Series: Gale virtual reference library
Publisher: Gale Research Inc
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781573023023; 9781573022996
Subjects: Fiction; Study and teaching; Languages & Literatures; Literature - General; Elmer Gantry (Motion picture); Room with a view (Motion picture); Call it sleep (Roth, Henry); Caramelo (Cisneros, Sandra); Elmer Gantry (Lewis, Sinclair); Mama's bank account (Forbes, Kathryn); O pioneers! (Cather, Willa); Perks of being a wallflower (Chbosky, Stephen); Underworld (DeLillo, Don)
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: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

English.
Table of contents: title: Among the Hidden (by Margaret Peterson Haddix); title: Call It Sleep (by Henry Roth); title: Caramelo, or, Puro Cuento (by Sandra Cisneros); title: The Dive from Clausen's Pier (by Ann Packer); title: Dred : A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (by Harriet Beecher Stowe); title: Elmer Gantry; title: Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions (by Edwin Abbott Abbott); title: Mama's Bank Account (by Kathryn Forbes); title: O Pioneers! (by Willa Cather); title: The Perks of Being a Wallflower (by Stephen Chbosky); title: A Room with a View; title: Time's Arrow : Or, the Nature of the Offence (by Martin Amis); title: Underworld (by Don DeLillo); title: War Horse (by Michael Morpurgo).