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presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas ; Volume 29
12 angry men -- The Cuban swimmer / by Milcha Sanchez-Scott -- Guys and dolls / by Jo Swerling, Abe Burrows, and Frank Loesser -- Look homeward, angel / by Ketti Frings -- Los vendidos / by Luis Valdez -- Poof! / by Lynn Nottage -- A raisin in the...
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12 angry men -- The Cuban swimmer / by Milcha Sanchez-Scott -- Guys and dolls / by Jo Swerling, Abe Burrows, and Frank Loesser -- Look homeward, angel / by Ketti Frings -- Los vendidos / by Luis Valdez -- Poof! / by Lynn Nottage -- A raisin in the sun -- The stronger / by August Strindberg -- They knew what they wanted / by Sidney Howard -- Time flies / by David Ives -- Trying to find Chinatown / by David Henry Hwang -- Workout / by Wendy Wasserstein. Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; understandable essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary
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Drama for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas ; Volume 27
Aria da capo / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The crucible -- Desire under the elms / by Eugene O'Neill -- The governess / by Neil Simon -- Heather Raffo's 9 parts of desire / by Heather Raffo -- Henrietta / by Karen Jones Meadows -- I never saw...
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Aria da capo / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The crucible -- Desire under the elms / by Eugene O'Neill -- The governess / by Neil Simon -- Heather Raffo's 9 parts of desire / by Heather Raffo -- Henrietta / by Karen Jones Meadows -- I never saw another butterfly / by Celeste Raspanti -- Light shining in Buckinghamshire / by Caryl Churchill -- Robert Johnson : trick the devil / by Bill Harris -- The servant of two masters / by Carlo Goldoni -- A streetcar named Desire -- The Trojan women / by Euripides -- Urinetown / by Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann -- West side story / by Arthur Laurents ... [et al.]. Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context
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Short stories for students
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The birth-mark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Cat in the rain / Ernest Hemingway -- Gentleman of Rio en Medio / Juan A.A. Sedillo -- Home / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The homecoming stranger / Bei Dao -- Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff -- In a grove /...
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The birth-mark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Cat in the rain / Ernest Hemingway -- Gentleman of Rio en Medio / Juan A.A. Sedillo -- Home / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The homecoming stranger / Bei Dao -- Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff -- In a grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa -- The law of life / Jack London -- Mista Courifer / Adelaide Casely-Hayford -- The outlaws / Selma Lagerlof -- A pair of silk stockings / Kate Chopin -- A shocking accident / Graham Greene -- The street of the Canon / Josephina Niggli -- A sunrise on the veld / Doris Lessing. Presents vital information on the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels. Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism
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Short stories for students
presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories ; Volume 34
The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells -- First confession / Frank O'Connor -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Greasy lake / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- An hour with Abuelo / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Impulse /...
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The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells -- First confession / Frank O'Connor -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Greasy lake / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- An hour with Abuelo / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Impulse / Conrad Aiken -- The lucky stone / Lucille Clifton -- The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- The night face up / Julio Cortazar -- The rain came / Grace Ogot -- Wasps' nest / Agatha Christie -- The white umbrella / Gish Jen -- The widow and the parrot : a true story / Virginia Woolf. Presents vital information on the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels. Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism
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Short stories for students
presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories ; Volume 31
By the waters of Babylon / by Stephen Vincent Benet -- Daughter of invention / by Julia Alvarez -- A devoted son / by Anita Desai -- End of the game / by Julio Cortazar -- The fence / by Hamsad Rangkuti -- The garden of stubborn cats / by Italo...
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By the waters of Babylon / by Stephen Vincent Benet -- Daughter of invention / by Julia Alvarez -- A devoted son / by Anita Desai -- End of the game / by Julio Cortazar -- The fence / by Hamsad Rangkuti -- The garden of stubborn cats / by Italo Calvino -- Good climate, friendly inhabitants / by Nadine Gordimer -- The jewels / by Guy de Maupassant -- An outpost of progress / by Joseph Conrad -- A retrieved reformation / by O. Henry -- Tears of autumn / by Yoshiko Uchida -- The treasure of Lemon Brown / by Walter Dean Myers -- With all flags flying / by Anne Tyler -- The witness for the prosecution / by Agatha Christie. Provides critical overviews of short stories from all cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the story's cultural and historical significance
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Short stories for students
presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories ; Volume 30
Beware of the dog / by Roald Dahl -- A day goes by / by Luigi Pirandello -- Dr. Heidegger's experiment / by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The heavenly Christmas tree / by Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The leap / by Louise Erdrich -- Love must not be forgotten / by...
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Beware of the dog / by Roald Dahl -- A day goes by / by Luigi Pirandello -- Dr. Heidegger's experiment / by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The heavenly Christmas tree / by Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The leap / by Louise Erdrich -- Love must not be forgotten / by Zhang Jie -- Marriage is a private affair / by Chinua Achebe -- No witchcraft for sale / by Doris Lessing -- One ordinary day, with peanuts / by Shirley Jackson -- The prisoner who wore glasses / by Bessie Head -- The son from America / by Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Sorry, right number / by Stephen King -- Sweet potato pie / by Eugenia Collier -- The thrill of the grass / by W. P. Kinsella. Provides critical overviews of short stories from all cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the story's cultural and historical significance
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Short stories for students
presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories ; Volume 29
Aunty Misery / by Judith Ortiz Cofer -- B. Wordsworth / by V.S. Naipaul -- The censors / by Luisa Valenzuela -- Contents of the dead man's pocket / by Jack Finney -- Dog star / by Arthur C. Clarke -- The doll's house / by Katherine Mansfield --...
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Aunty Misery / by Judith Ortiz Cofer -- B. Wordsworth / by V.S. Naipaul -- The censors / by Luisa Valenzuela -- Contents of the dead man's pocket / by Jack Finney -- Dog star / by Arthur C. Clarke -- The doll's house / by Katherine Mansfield -- forty-five a month / by R.K. Narayan -- The grasshopper and the bell cricket / by Yasunari Kawabata -- Ha'penny / by Alan Paton -- The pit and the pendulum / by Edgar Allan Poe -- A problem / by Anton Chekhov -- Suzy and Leah / by Jane Yolen -- Thank you, ma'm / by Langston Hughes -- Where have you gone charming Billy? / by Tim O'Brien. Provides critical overviews of short stories from all cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the story's cultural and historical significance
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Short stories for students
presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories ; Volume 28
Amigo brothers / by Piri Thomas -- The bass, the river, and Sheila Mant / by W.D. Wetherell -- Day of the butterfly / by Alice Munro -- Federigo's falcon / by Giovanni Boccaccio -- The first year of my life / by Muriel Spark -- Games at twilight / by...
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Amigo brothers / by Piri Thomas -- The bass, the river, and Sheila Mant / by W.D. Wetherell -- Day of the butterfly / by Alice Munro -- Federigo's falcon / by Giovanni Boccaccio -- The first year of my life / by Muriel Spark -- Games at twilight / by Anita Desai -- The golden kite, the silver wind / by Ray Bradbury -- House taken over / by Julio Cortazar -- How much land does a man need? / by Leo Tolstoy -- Marigolds / by Eugenia W. Collier -- The medicine bag / by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve -- A mystery of heroism / by Stephen Crane -- Once upon a time / by Nadine Gordimer -- Two friends / by Guy de Maupassant. Provides critical overviews of short stories from all cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the story's cultural and historical significance
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Poetry for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 41
Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens -- The canonization / John Donne -- Cinderella / Anne Sexton -- Constantly risking absurdity / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The cucumber / Nazim Hikmet -- A display of mackerel / Mark Doty -- The end and the...
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Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens -- The canonization / John Donne -- Cinderella / Anne Sexton -- Constantly risking absurdity / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The cucumber / Nazim Hikmet -- A display of mackerel / Mark Doty -- The end and the beginning / Wislawa Szymborska -- The floral apron / Marilyn Chin -- The forge / Seamus Heaney -- Home burial / Robert Frost -- I, being born a woman and distressed (Sonnet XVIII) / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- In the inner city / Lucille Clifton -- Love among the ruins / Robert Browning -- New world / N. Scott Momaday -- United Fruit Co. / Pablo Neruda -- What are friends for / Rosellen Brown. Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction
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Poetry for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 40
Another feeling / by Ruth Stone -- Civilian and soldier / by Wole Soyinka -- Defining the grateful gesture / by Yvonne Sapia -- For the young who want to / by Marge Piercy -- I am learning to abandon the world / by Linda Pastan -- In just / by e.e....
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Another feeling / by Ruth Stone -- Civilian and soldier / by Wole Soyinka -- Defining the grateful gesture / by Yvonne Sapia -- For the young who want to / by Marge Piercy -- I am learning to abandon the world / by Linda Pastan -- In just / by e.e. cummings -- The journey / by Mary Oliver -- Legal alien / by Pat Mora -- London / by William Blake -- Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / by Alfred Edward Housman -- The moon at the fortified pass / by Li Po -- The mother / by Gwendolyn Brooks -- Night journey / by Theodore Roethke -- Spring and fall : to a young girl / by Gerard Manley Hopkins -- We wear the mask / by Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Who understands me but me / by Jimmy Santiago Baca. Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction
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Poetry for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 39
Corinna's going a-maying / by Robert Herrick -- Domestic violence / by Eavan Boland -- Exile / by Julia Alvarez -- Flounder / by Natasha Trethewey -- Frost at midnight / by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Ghost of a chance / by Adrienne Rich -- Let...
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Corinna's going a-maying / by Robert Herrick -- Domestic violence / by Eavan Boland -- Exile / by Julia Alvarez -- Flounder / by Natasha Trethewey -- Frost at midnight / by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Ghost of a chance / by Adrienne Rich -- Let evening come / by Jane Kenyon -- The listeners / by Walter de la Mare -- Miracles / by Walt Whitman -- The powwow at the end of the world / by Sherman Alexie -- Sea canes / by Derek Walcott -- Seven laments for the war-dead / by Yehuda Amichai -- Song for the last act / by Louise Bogan -- Syrinx / by Amy Clampitt -- Thoughts of Hanoi / by Nguyen Thi Vinh -- The tide rises, the tide falls / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction
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Poetry for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 35
Acquainted with the night / by Robert Frost -- Blackberry eating / by Galway Kinnell -- Childe Harold's pilgrimage / by Lord Byron -- The dead / by Susan Mitchell -- I'm nobody! Who are you? / by Emily Dickinson -- In music / by Czeslaw Milosz --...
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Acquainted with the night / by Robert Frost -- Blackberry eating / by Galway Kinnell -- Childe Harold's pilgrimage / by Lord Byron -- The dead / by Susan Mitchell -- I'm nobody! Who are you? / by Emily Dickinson -- In music / by Czeslaw Milosz -- Miniver Cheevy / by Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Odysseus to Telemachus / by Joseph Brodsky -- Of modern poetry / by Wallace Stevens -- River of August / by Pak Tu-Jin -- Seven ages of man / by William Shakespeare -- Song / by John Donne -- Sonnet LXXXIX / by Pablo Neruda -- Uncoiling / by Pat Mora -- Winter / by Nikki Giovanni -- Words are the diminution of all things / by Charles Penzel Wright. Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction
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Poetry for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 34
Autobiographia literaria / by Frank O'Hara -- The bridegroom / by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin -- Conscientious objector / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The fly / by William Blake -- Grandmother / by Valzhyna Mort -- Midsummer, Tobago / by Derek...
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Autobiographia literaria / by Frank O'Hara -- The bridegroom / by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin -- Conscientious objector / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The fly / by William Blake -- Grandmother / by Valzhyna Mort -- Midsummer, Tobago / by Derek Walcott -- My mother combs my hair / by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- Possibilities / by Wislawa Szymborska -- Since feeling is first / by E. E. Cummings -- The snow-storm / by Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The stolen child / by William Butler Yeats -- This is just to say / by William Carlos Williams -- To Althea, from prison / by Richard Lovelace -- Up-hill / by Christina Georgina Rossetti -- The waking / by Theodore Roethke -- Women / by Alice Walker. Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction
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Poetry for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 33
Classic ballroom dances / by Charles Simic -- Elena / by Pat Mora -- Fully empowered / by Pablo Neruda -- The hollow men / by T.S. Eliot -- I wandered lonely as a cloud / by William Wordsworth -- Jazz fantasia / by Carl Sandburg -- The lotus flowers...
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Classic ballroom dances / by Charles Simic -- Elena / by Pat Mora -- Fully empowered / by Pablo Neruda -- The hollow men / by T.S. Eliot -- I wandered lonely as a cloud / by William Wordsworth -- Jazz fantasia / by Carl Sandburg -- The lotus flowers / by Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Mushrooms / by Sylvia Plath -- The old stoic / by Emily Bronte -- On my first son / by Ben Jonson -- Shoulders / by Naomi Shihab Nye -- Sympathy / by Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Two eclipses / by Shmuel HaNagid -- Upon the burning of our house, July 10th, 1666 / by Anne Bradstreet -- What for / by Garrett Kaoru Hongo -- Woman work / by Maya Angelou. Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction
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Poetry for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 32
After apple picking / by Robert Frost -- A Black man talks of reaping / by Arna Bontemps -- Everything is plundered / by Anna Akhmatova -- The explorer / by Gwendolyn Brooks -- Grudnow / by Linda Pastan -- Hanging fire / by Audre Lorde -- The horses...
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After apple picking / by Robert Frost -- A Black man talks of reaping / by Arna Bontemps -- Everything is plundered / by Anna Akhmatova -- The explorer / by Gwendolyn Brooks -- Grudnow / by Linda Pastan -- Hanging fire / by Audre Lorde -- The horses / by Ted Hughes -- In response to Executive Order 9066 : all Americans of Japanese descent must report to relocation centers / by Dwight Okita -- Jade flower palace / by Tu Fu -- On the grasshopper and the cricket / by John Keats -- Remember / by Joy Harjo -- Sonnet 75 / by Edmund Spenser -- Success is counted sweetest / by Emily Dickinson -- To a sky-lark / by Percy Bysshe Shelley -- To be of use / by Marge Piercy -- To Lucasta, going to the wars / by Richard Lovelace. Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction
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Poetry for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 31
An ancient gensture / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The black snake / by Mary Oliver -- The fish / by Elizabeth Bishop -- Fragment 2 / by Sappho -- The hippopotamus / by Ogden Nash -- Huswifery / by Edward Taylor -- Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias...
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An ancient gensture / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The black snake / by Mary Oliver -- The fish / by Elizabeth Bishop -- Fragment 2 / by Sappho -- The hippopotamus / by Ogden Nash -- Huswifery / by Edward Taylor -- Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias / by Federico Garcia Lorca -- Lineage / by Margaret Walker -- Losses / by Randall Jarrell -- A noiseless patient spider / by Walt Whitman -- Outside history / by Eavan Boland -- Runagate runagate / by Robert Hayden -- Some people like poetry / by Wislawa Szymborska -- Storm ending / by Jean Toomer -- A tree telling of Orpheus / by Denise Levertov -- The wreck of the Hesperus / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction
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Novels for students
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The bingo palace / Louise Erdrich -- Clueless -- The color purple -- The corrections / Jonathan Franzen -- The idiot / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Jazz / Toni Morrison -- King Solomon's mines / H. Rider Haggard -- The mists of Avalon / Marion Zimmer...
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The bingo palace / Louise Erdrich -- Clueless -- The color purple -- The corrections / Jonathan Franzen -- The idiot / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Jazz / Toni Morrison -- King Solomon's mines / H. Rider Haggard -- The mists of Avalon / Marion Zimmer Bradley -- Monster / Walter Dean Myers -- The ox-bow incident / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- The road / Cormac McCarthy -- Stranger in a strange land / Robert A. Heinlein -- Waiting for the rain / Sheila Gordon -- White teeth / Zadie Smith. Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance
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Novels for students
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American born Chinese / Gene Leun Yang -- Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress / Dai Sijie -- The cruel sea / Nicholas Monsarrat -- The grapes of wrath -- Half a life / Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul -- The help / Kathryn Stockett -- Housekeeping...
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American born Chinese / Gene Leun Yang -- Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress / Dai Sijie -- The cruel sea / Nicholas Monsarrat -- The grapes of wrath -- Half a life / Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul -- The help / Kathryn Stockett -- Housekeeping / Marilynne Robinson -- The human comedy / William Saroyan -- Montana 1948 / Larry Watson -- The moonstone / Wilkie Collins -- Number the stars / Lois Lowry -- Olive Kitteridge / Elizabeth Strout -- Oryx and crake / Margaret Atwood -- The remains of the day. Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance
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The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / Sherman Alexie -- Digging to America / Anne Tyler -- Dreaming in Cuban / Cristina Garcia -- The fifth child / Doris Lessing -- Gone with the wind -- My brother Sam is dead / James Lincoln Collier --...
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The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / Sherman Alexie -- Digging to America / Anne Tyler -- Dreaming in Cuban / Cristina Garcia -- The fifth child / Doris Lessing -- Gone with the wind -- My brother Sam is dead / James Lincoln Collier -- My name is Asher Lev / Chaim Potok -- Neuromancer / William Gibson -- The pathfinder; or, The inland sea / James Fenimore Cooper -- Schindler's list -- The shipping news / Annie Proulx -- Sister of my heart / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- A town like Alice / Nevil Shute -- The unvanquished / William Faulkner. Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance
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Adam Bede / by George Eliot -- Arrowsmith / by Sinclair Lewis -- The castle / by Franz Kafka -- Davita's harp / by Chaim Potok -- East of Eden -- The great train robbery / by Michael Crichton -- A handful of dust / by Evelyn Waugh -- Journey to the...
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Adam Bede / by George Eliot -- Arrowsmith / by Sinclair Lewis -- The castle / by Franz Kafka -- Davita's harp / by Chaim Potok -- East of Eden -- The great train robbery / by Michael Crichton -- A handful of dust / by Evelyn Waugh -- Journey to the center of the earth / by Jules Verne -- The magnificent Ambersons / by Booth Tarkington -- The natural -- Nothing but the truth : a documentary novel / by Avi -- Patternmaster / by Octavia E. Butler -- Pelle the conqueror / by Martin Andersen Nexo -- Three Junes / by Julia Glass. Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance
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Novels for students
presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels ; Volume 33
The adventures of Augie March / by Saul Bellow -- Beauty : a retelling of the story of Beauty and the beast / by Robin McKinley -- The glory field / by Walter Dean Myers -- Intruder in the dust / by William Faulkner -- Kidnapped / by Robert Louis...
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The adventures of Augie March / by Saul Bellow -- Beauty : a retelling of the story of Beauty and the beast / by Robin McKinley -- The glory field / by Walter Dean Myers -- Intruder in the dust / by William Faulkner -- Kidnapped / by Robert Louis Stevenson -- A lost lady / by Willa Cather -- Murder on the Orient Express / by Agatha Christie -- Nicholas Nickleby / by Charles Dickens -- No longer at ease / by Chinua Achebe -- Ordinary people -- Le Pere Goriot / by Honore de Balzac -- Sense and sensibility -- The street / by Ann Lane Petry -- Tangerine / by Edward Bloor. Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance
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Novels for students
presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels ; Volume 32
Atonement / by Ian McEwan -- The bridge over the River Kwai / by Pierre Boulle -- Joseph Andrews / by Henry Fielding -- The last of the Mohicans -- The learning tree / by Gordon Parks -- The pilgrim's progress / by John Bunyan -- A place where the...
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Atonement / by Ian McEwan -- The bridge over the River Kwai / by Pierre Boulle -- Joseph Andrews / by Henry Fielding -- The last of the Mohicans -- The learning tree / by Gordon Parks -- The pilgrim's progress / by John Bunyan -- A place where the sea remembers / by Sandra Benitez -- The power of one / by Bryce Courtenay -- Staying fat for Sarah Byrnes / by Chris Crutcher -- A thousand acres / by Jane Smiley -- To kill a mockingbird -- Typee / by Herman Melville -- The wings of the dove / by Henry James -- A wrinkle in time / by Madeleine L'Engle. Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance
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Novels for students
presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels ; Volume 31
The bonesetter's daughter / by Amy Tan -- Cold Sassy tree / by Olive Ann Burns -- Dune / by Frank Herbert -- Ivanhoe / by Walter Scott -- The namesake / by Jhumpa Lahiri -- The power and the glory / by Graham Greene -- The princess bride / by William...
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The bonesetter's daughter / by Amy Tan -- Cold Sassy tree / by Olive Ann Burns -- Dune / by Frank Herbert -- Ivanhoe / by Walter Scott -- The namesake / by Jhumpa Lahiri -- The power and the glory / by Graham Greene -- The princess bride / by William Goldman -- The prince and the pauper / by Mark Twain -- Reservation blues / by Sherman Alexie -- The Scarlet Pimpernel / by Emmuska Orczy -- Speak / by Laurie Halse Anderson -- A tree grows in Brooklyn / by Betty Smith -- When rain clouds gather / by Bessie Head -- Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values / by Robert Pirsig. Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance
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Novels for students
presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels ; Volume 30
The A.B.C. murders / Agatha Christie -- Around the world in eighty days / Jules Verne -- Bel canto / Ann Patchett -- Bleak house / Charles Dickens -- Briar rose / Jane Yolen -- Fallen angels / Walter Dean Myers -- Franny and Zooey / J.D. Salinger --...
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The A.B.C. murders / Agatha Christie -- Around the world in eighty days / Jules Verne -- Bel canto / Ann Patchett -- Bleak house / Charles Dickens -- Briar rose / Jane Yolen -- Fallen angels / Walter Dean Myers -- Franny and Zooey / J.D. Salinger -- How green was my valley / Richard Llewellyn -- A journal of the plague year / Daniel Defoe -- Jude the obscure / Thomas Hardy -- The little prince / Antoine de Saint-Exupery -- The once and future king / T.H. White -- To sir, with love / E.R. Braithwaite -- Typical American / Gish Jen. Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance
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Novels for students. Volume 30
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Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance.
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