Novels for students
Subtitle: presenting analysis, context, and crticism on commonly studied novels
By: Marie Rose Napierkowski and Deborah A. Stanley, editors
Series: Gale virtual reference library
Publisher: Gale Group
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781414428017
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary); Literature; Fiction; Study and teaching (Higher); History and criticism
Description: Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism.
Notes: Title from website (viewed Dec. 18, 2008).

Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan.

Each entry includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.
Table of contents: title: As I lay dying  -- William Faulkner; title: The brothers Karamazov  -- Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky; title: The call of the wild  -- Jack London; title: Don Quixote  -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; title: Empire of the sun  -- J.G. Ballard; title: The hobbit  -- J.R.R. Tolkien; title: Kindred  -- Octavia Butler; title: The master and Margarita  -- Mikhail Bulgakov; title: The old gringo  -- Carlos Fuentes; title: On the road  -- Jack Kerouac; title: Sister Carrie  -- Theodore Dreiser; title: Song of Solomon  -- Toni Morrison; title: Ten little Indians  -- Agatha Christie; title: them  -- Joyce Carol Oates; title: To the lighthouse -- Virginia Woolf.