Title: Novels for students
Description: Contains entries that provide information about fifteen novels, each with an introduction to the novel and its author; a plot summary; descriptions of characters; analysis of themes; an explanation of literary techniques and movements; a historical context essay; a look at media adaptations; and reading suggestions.
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary), Literature, Study and teaching (Higher), History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Fiction, English fiction, American fiction, Modern Poetry
Places: United States
People: J. G. Ballard (1930-2009), Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), William Faulkner (1897-1962), Joyce Carol Oates (1938-), Carlos Fuentes, Jack London (1876-1916), Theodore Dreier (1902-1997), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), Agatha Christie (1890-1976), J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), Octavia E. Butler, Toni Morrison (1931-2019), Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
Time periods: 20th century, 19th century