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: 365
ISBN-13: 9781414449500; 9781414441726
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary); East of Eden (Motion picture); Literature; Study and teaching (Higher); History and criticism; Natural (Motion picture); Fiction
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: Adam Bede  -- by George Eliot; title: Arrowsmith  -- by Sinclair Lewis; title: The castle  -- by Franz Kafka; title: Davita's harp  -- by Chaim Potok; title: East of Eden --; title: The great train robbery  -- by Michael Crichton; title: A handful of dust  -- by Evelyn Waugh; title: Journey to the center of the earth  -- by Jules Verne; title: The magnificent Ambersons  -- by Booth Tarkington; title: The natural --; title: Nothing but the truth : a documentary novel  -- by Avi; title: Patternmaster  -- by Octavia E. Butler; title: Pelle the conqueror  -- by Martin Andersen Nexo; title: Three Junes -- by Julia Glass.