Novels for students

Description:

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.

subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary),  Sense and sensibility (Motion picture),  Study and teaching (Higher),  History and criticism,  Ordinary people (Motion picture),  Fiction,  Literature,  Sense and sensibility (Motion picture : 1995),  Adventures of Augie March (Bellow, Saul),  Intruder in the dust (Faulkner, William),  Kidnapped (Stevenson, Robert Louis),  Lost lady (Cather, Willa),  Murder on the Orient Express (Christie, Agatha),  Nicholas Nickleby (Dickens, Charles),  No longer at ease (Achebe, Chinua),  Père Goriot (Balzac, Honoré de),  Sense and sensibility (Austen, Jane)

People: Ann Petry (1908-1997),  William Faulkner (1897-1962),  Judith Guest,  Walter Dean Myers (1937-),  Charles Dickens (1812-1870),  Saul Bellow,  Edward Bloor (1950-),  Jane Austen (1775-1817),  Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894),  Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850),  Robin McKinley,  Chinua Achebe,  Willa Cather (1873-1947),  Agatha Christie (1890-1976)

Places: United States