Title: Novels for students
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.
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary), Middlemarch (Eliot, George), Literature, Razor's edge (Maugham, W. Somerset), Hotel du Lac (Brookner, Anita), Study and teaching (Higher), Ugly American (Lederer, William J.), History and criticism, Hours (Cunningham, Michael), Fiction, English patient (Ondaatje, Michael), Midnight's children (Rushdie, Salman)
Places: United States
People: Salman Rushdie, Anita Brookner, Thomas Pynchon, Carol Shields, Joanne Greenberg, W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), Imre Kertesz (1929-2016), Eugene Burdick, Michael Cunningham (1952-), George Eliot (1819-1880), Michael Ondaatje (1943-), Thu H¡ʻ¡Łng D¡ʻ¡Łng, William J. Lederer (1912-2009), James Welch (1940-2003), Alice McDermott