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: 368
ISBN-13: 9781414449494; 9781414441719
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary); Sense and sensibility (Motion picture); Study and teaching (Higher); History and criticism; Ordinary people (Motion picture); Fiction; Literature
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 adventures of Augie March  -- by Saul Bellow; title: Beauty : a retelling of the story of Beauty and the beast  -- by Robin McKinley; title: The glory field  -- by Walter Dean Myers; title: Intruder in the dust  -- by William Faulkner; title: Kidnapped  -- by Robert Louis Stevenson; title: A lost lady  -- by Willa Cather; title: Murder on the Orient Express  -- by Agatha Christie; title: Nicholas Nickleby  -- by Charles Dickens; title: No longer at ease  -- by Chinua Achebe; title: Ordinary people --; title: Le Pere Goriot  -- by Honore de Balzac; title: Sense and sensibility --; title: The street  -- by Ann Lane Petry; title: Tangerine -- by Edward Bloor.