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: 2011
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9781414473642; 9781414466989
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary); Literature; Study and teaching (Higher); Joy Luck Club (Motion picture); History and criticism; Fiction; Outsiders (Motion picture)
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: April morning  -- by Howard Fast; title: The contender  -- by Robert Lipsyte; title: Fever 1793  -- by Laurie Halse Anderson; title: Graceland  -- by Chris Abani; title: The Joy Luck Club --; title: Make lemonade  -- by Virginia Euwer Wolff; title: Maus : a survivor's tale  -- by Art Spiegelman; title: Never let me go  -- by Kazuo Ishiguro; title: Of human bondage  -- by William Somerset Maugham; title: Oroonoko, or, The royal slave : a true history  -- by Aphra Behn; title: The outsiders --; title: The sea-wolf  -- by Jack London; title: Shabanu : daughter of the wind  -- by Suzanne Fisher Staples; title: Wicked : the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West -- by Gregory Maguire.