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Title Novels for students. Volume 23 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels / Sara Constantakis, project editor ; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan.

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Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2006.

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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	Charming Billy - Alice McDermott -- The English patient - Michael Ondaatje -- Gravity's rainbow - Thomas Pynchon -- Hotel du lac - Anita Brookner -- The hours - Michael Cunningham -- I never promised you a rose garden - Joanne Greenberg -- Kaddish for a child not born - Imre Kertesz -- Middlemarch - George Eliot -- Midnight's children - Salman Rushdie -- Paradise of the blind - Duong Thu Huong -- The razor's edge - W. Somerset Maugham -- The stone diaries - Carol Shields -- The ugly American - William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick -- Winter in the blood - James Welch.
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: xix, 355 p. : ill., photos. ; 29 cm.
Subject	McDermott, Alice. Charming Billy.
	Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- English patient.
	Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's rainbow.
	Brookner, Anita. Hotel du lac.
	Cunningham, Michael, 1952- Hours.
	Greenberg, Joanne. I never promised you a rose garden.
	Kertesz, Imre, 1929- Kaddish for a child not born.
	Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Middlemarch.
	Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's children.
	Duong, Thu Huong. Paradise of the blind.
	Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. Razor's edge.
	Shields, Carol. Stone diaries.
	Lederer, William J., 1912- Ugly American.
	Burdick, Eugene. Ugly American.
	Welch, James, 1940- Winter in the blood.
	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	Constantakis, Sara.
ISBN	9780787669461
	0787669466