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Novels for students : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels, Diane Telgen, editor

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Novels for students : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels

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Diane Telgen, editor

Contains profiles of fifteen novels, each including an introduction to the story and its author, a plot summary, descriptions of characters, analysis of themes and style, discussion of historical context, a critical overview, and other related information

V.1. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain -- The bell jar / Sylvia Plath -- Black boy / Richard Wright -- The bluest eye / Toni Morrison -- Catch-22 / Joseph Heller -- Catcher in the rye / J. D. Salinger -- Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury -- A farewell to arms / Ernest Hemingway -- Frankenstein / Mary Shelley -- The joy luck club / Amy Tan -- Love in the time of Cholera / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Of mice and men / John Steinbeck -- Ordinary people / Judith Guest -- Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen - The scarlet letter / Nathaniel HawthorneV.2. The chocolate war / Robert Cormier -- Dinner at the homesick restaurant / Anne Tyler -- Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes -- The great gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- The house on mango street / Sandra Cisneros -- I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou -- Invisible man / Ralph Ellison -- Lord of the flies / William Golding -- My Antonia / Willa Cather -- One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey -- A separate peace / John Knowles -- Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe -- To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee -- Wuthering heights / Emily BronteV.3. Animal farm / George Orwell -- Annie John / Jamaica Kincaid -- The awakening / Kate Chopin -- Crime and punishment / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Cry, the beloved country / Alan Paton -- Democracy / Joan Didion -- Ellen Foster / Kaye Gibbons -- The giver / Lois Lowry -- Grendel / John Gardner -- Obasan / Joy Kogawa -- A passage to India / E. M. Forster -- Slaughterhouse-Five / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Thomas Hardy -- Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston -- Wise blood / Flannery O'Connor -- A yellow raft in blue water / Michael DorrisV.4. All quiet on the western front / Erich Maria Remarque -- Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The chosen / Chaim Potok -- Go tell it on the mountain / James Baldwin -- Great expectations / Charles Dickens -- The Handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood -- In country / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte -- July's people / Nadine Gordimer -- The natural / Bernard Malamud -- Night / Eliezer Wiesel -- The red badge of courage / Stephen Crane -- Seize the day / Saul Bellow -- The sound and the fury / William Faulkner -- Winesburg, Ohio / Sherwood Anderson -- The women of Brewster Place / Gloria NaylorV. 5. The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / Ernest J. Gaines -- The Bean Trees / Barbara Kingsolver -- The color purple / Alice Walker -- Do Androids dream of electric sheep / Philip K. Dick -- Ender's game / Orson Scott Card -- Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton -- Giants in the earth / O.E. Rolvaag -- How the Garcia girls lost their accents / Julia Alvarez -- Like water for chocolate / Laura Esquivel -- Love medicine / Louise Erdrich -- Les Miserables / Victor Hugh -- One hundred years of solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The outsiders / S. E. Hinton -- The pearl / John Steinbeck -- The sun also rises / Ernest Hemingway -- A tale of two cities / Charles DickensV. 6. The adventures of Tom Sawyer -- Mark Twain -- Beloved / Toni Morrison -- Brave new world / Aldous Huxley -- Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift -- The heart is a lonely hunter / Carson McCullers -- The house of the Spirits / Isabel Allende -- The jungle / Upton Sinclair -- The left hand of darkness / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The old man and the sea / Ernest Hemingway -- One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- Ragtime / E. L. Doctorow -- Siddhartha / Hermann Hesse -- The stranger / Albert Camus -- Uncle Tom's cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The woman warrior / Maxine Hong KingstonV. 7. The accidental tourist / Anne Tyler -- Alice's adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll -- The Caine mutiny / Herman Wouk -- Candide / Voltaire -- Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe / Fannie Flagg -- The grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck -- The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy / Douglas Adams -- Kitchen / Banana Yoshimoto -- A lesson before dying / Ernest J. Gaines -- Mama Day / Gloria Naylor -- Moby-Dick / Herman Melville -- Native son / Richard Wright -- 1984 / George Orwell -- A portrait of the artist as a young man / James Joyce -- The trial / Franz KafkaV. 8. As I lay dying / William Faulkner -- The Brothers Karamazov / Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky -- The call of the wild / Jack London -- Don Quixote / Cervantes Saavedra -- Empire of the Sun / J. G. Ballard -- The Hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien -- Kindred / Octavia Butler -- The Master and Margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov -- The old gringo / Carlos Fuentes -- On the road / Jack Kerouac -- Sister Carrie / Theodore Dreiser -- Song of Solomon / Toni Morrison -- Ten little Indians / Agatha Christie -- them / Joyce Carol Oates -- To the lighthouse / Virginia WoolfV. 9. Always coming home / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Billy Budd, sailor: and 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. HintonV. 10. Atlas shrugged / Ayn Rand -- Breathing lessons / Anne Tyler -- A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens -- Chronicle of a death foretold / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The dead of the house / Hannah Green -- House made of dawn / N. Scott Momaday -- Howards End / E. M. Forster -- The naked and the dead / Norman Mailer -- Pigs in Heaven / Barbara Kingsolver -- Shogun: a novel of Jappan / James du Maresq Clavell -- Summer of my German soldier / Bette Greene -- War and peace / Leo TolstoyV. 11. The age of innocence / Edith Wharton -- Appointment in Samarra / John O'Hara -- Bastard out of Carolina / Dorothy Allison -- Betsey Brown / Ntozake Shange -- Body and soul / Frank Conroy -- Cane / Jean Toomer -- The clan of the cave bear / Jean Auel -- The crazy horse electric game / Chris Crutcher -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The grass dancer / Susan Power -- Less than zero / Bret Easton Ellis -- The return of the native / Thomas Hardy -- A room with a view / E. M. Forster -- The stone angel / Margaret Laurence -- Watership Down / Richard AdamsV. 12. The Ambassadors / Henry James -- Animal dreams / Barbara Kingsolver -- Bless me, Ultima / Rudolfo Anaya -- The Bride price / Buchi Emecheta -- The edible woman / Margaret Atwood -- Little Women / Louisa May Alcott -- Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf -- The Octopus / Frank Norris -- The painted bird / Jerrry Kosinski -- Pilgrims in Aztlan / Miguel Mendez -- Rabbit, Run / John Updike -- Rebecca / Daphne du Maurier -- The slave dancer / Paula Fox -- Too late the Phalarope / Alan Paton -- The world according to Garp / John Irving

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