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9780816076758

The American Novel

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  • ISBN13:

    9780816076758

  • ISBN10:

    0816076758

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-03-01
  • Publisher: Facts on File
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Summary

The American Novel helps students better understand and appreciate literature through a close examination of great short passages in classic works. Offering interpretations of selected passages from 150 great American novels, this new, two-volume set is curriculum-oriented and perfectly designed for student use. Each passage is reprinted along with a detailed analysis, which is then followed by a variety of questions designed to inspire further thinking or discussion of the passage. This comprehensive work is designed not only to facilitate comprehension of these particular passages, but also to teach students the techniques they need in order to understand any great and complicated passage of American literature.

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Excerpts

The American Novel helps students better understand and appreciate literature through a close examination of great short passages in classic works. Offering interpretations of selected passages from 150 great American novels, this comprehensive work is curriculum-oriented and perfectly designed for student use. Each passage is reprinted along with a detailed analysis, which is then followed by a variety of questions designed to inspire further thinking or discussion of the passage.
This new, two-volume set is designed not only to facilitate comprehension of these particular passages, but also to teach students the techniques they need in order to understand any great and complicated passage of American literature.
Coverage includes:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald   
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
and many more.

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