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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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Study and teaching (Secondary), God of small things (Roy, Arundhati), Literature, Death in the family (Agee, James), Study and teaching (Higher), Suna no onna (Abe, Kobo), History and criticism, Elmer Gantry (Lewis, Sinclair), Fiction, Nome della rosa (Eco, Umberto), Sophie's choice (Styron, William), Damnation of Theron Ware (Frederic, Harold), Black Beauty (Sewell, Anna), Satanic verses (Rushdie, Salman), Dandelion wine (Bradbury, Ray), Stories, plots, Life of Pi (Motion picture), Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Motion picture), Age of Iron (Coetzee, J.M.), Last picture show (McMurtry, Larry), Life of Pi (Martel, Yann), Lucy (Kincaid, Jamaica), Moviegoer (Percy, Walker), One flew over the cuckoo's nest (Motion picture), Ragtime (Motion picture), Book thief (Zusak, Markus), Gattopardo (Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe), Hundred secret senses (Tan, Amy), Johnny got his gun (Trumbo, Dalton), One flew over the cuckoo's nest (Kesey, Ken), Ragtime (Doctorow, E. L.), Way of all flesh (Butler, Samuel)People
Salman Rushdie (1947-), William Styron (1925-2006), Umberto Eco (1932-2016), Anna Sewell (1820-1878), Harold Frederic (1856-1898), Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), Arundhati Roy (1961-), Muriel Spark, Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), Kobo Abe (1924-1993), James Agee (1909-1955)Places
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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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.
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