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: 352
ISBN-13: 9781414449487; 9781414441702
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary); Last of the Mohicans (Motion picture : 1992); Literature; Study and teaching (Higher); History and criticism; Fiction; To kill a mockingbird (Motion picture : 1962)
Description: 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.
Notes: Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Print version record.
Table of contents: title: Atonement  -- by Ian McEwan; title: The bridge over the River Kwai  -- by Pierre Boulle; title: Joseph Andrews  -- by Henry Fielding; title: The last of the Mohicans --; title: The learning tree  -- by Gordon Parks; title: The pilgrim's progress  -- by John Bunyan; title: A place where the sea remembers  -- by Sandra Benitez; title: The power of one  -- by Bryce Courtenay; title: Staying fat for Sarah Byrnes  -- by Chris Crutcher; title: A thousand acres  -- by Jane Smiley; title: To kill a mockingbird --; title: Typee  -- by Herman Melville; title: The wings of the dove  -- by Henry James; title: A wrinkle in time -- by Madeleine L'Engle.