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Title Novels for students. Volume 9 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels / Deborah A. Stanley and Ira Mark Milne, editors ; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan.

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Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, c2000.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Gale Electronic Resource	Electronic Resource	---	Available

Note	"ISSN 1094-3552."
	Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan.
Contents	Always coming home - Ursula K. Le Guin -- Billy Budd, sailor: an inside narrative - Herman Melville -- Deliverance - James Dickey -- The fixer - Bernard Malamud -- Gone with the wind - Margaret Mitchell -- In the time of the butterflies - Julia Alvarez -- The last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper -- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -- On the beach - Nevil Shute -- Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen -- The prince - Niccolo Machiavelli -- Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe -- Roots: the story of an American family - Alex Haley -- Rubyfruit jungle - Rita Mae Brown -- Tex - S.E. Hinton.
Access	Access limited to licensed institutions.
Summary	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.
Original Version	Original: xviii, 326 p. : ill., photos. ; 29 cm.
Subject	Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929- Always coming home.
	Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Billy Budd.
	Dickey, James. Deliverance.
	Malamud, Bernard. Fixer.
	Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949. Gone with the wind.
	Alvarez, Julia. In the time of the butterflies.
	Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Last of the Mohicans.
	Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Lolita.
	Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960. On the beach.
	Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962. Out of Africa.
	Machiavelli, Niccolo, 1469-1527. Principe. English.
	Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe.
	Haley, Alex. Roots.
	Brown, Rita Mae. Rubyfruit jungle.
	Hinton, S. E. Tex.
	Fiction -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
	Fiction -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States.
	Fiction -- History and criticism.
	Literature -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Stanley, Deborah A.
	Milne, Ira Mark.
ISBN	9780787638283
	0787638285