Novels for Students

by Stanley, Deborah A.; Napierkowski, Marie Rose

• ISBN13: 9780787638276
• ISBN10: 0787638277
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning

Table of Contents

Guest Foreword ``The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature''	viii
Anne Devereaux Jordan
Introduction	x
Literary Chronology	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Contributors	xviii
As I Lay Dying	1	(24)
William Faulkner
Author Biography	2	(1)
Plot Summary	2	(2)
Characters	4	(3)
Themes	7	(2)
Style	9	(1)
Historical Context	10	(1)
Critical Overview	11	(2)
Criticism	13	(12)
The Brothers Karamazov	25	(17)
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Author Biography	25	(1)
Plot Summary	26	(2)
Characters	28	(3)
Themes	31	(1)
Style	32	(1)
Historical Context	33	(2)
Critical Overview	35	(1)
Criticism	36	(6)
The Call of the Wild	42	(17)
Jack London
Author Biography	42	(1)
Plot Summary	43	(2)
Characters	45	(1)
Themes	46	(1)
Style	47	(1)
Historical Context	48	(3)
Critical Overview	51	(1)
Criticism	52	(7)
Don Quixote	59	(21)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Author Biography	60	(1)
Plot Summary	60	(2)
Characters	62	(3)
Themes	65	(1)
Style	66	(1)
Historical Context	67	(2)
Critical Overview	69	(1)
Criticism	70	(10)
Empire of the Sun	80	(14)
J. G. Ballard
Author Biography	80	(1)
Plot Summary	81	(1)
Characters	82	(3)
Themes	85	(1)
Style	86	(1)
Historical Context	86	(1)
Critical Overview	87	(1)
Criticism	88	(6)
The Hobbit	94	(20)
J. R. R. Tolkien
Author Biography	94	(1)
Plot Summary	95	(2)
Characters	97	(3)
Themes	100	(2)
Style	102	(1)
Historical Context	102	(2)
Critical Overview	104	(1)
Criticism	104	(10)
Kindred	114	(25)
Octavia Butler
Author Biography	115	(1)
Plot Summary	115	(1)
Characters	116	(4)
Themes	120	(2)
Style	122	(1)
Historical Context	123	(2)
Critical Overview	125	(1)
Criticism	126	(13)
The Master and Margarita	139	(19)
Makhail Bulgakov
Author Biography	140	(1)
Plot Summary	140	(2)
Characters	142	(4)
Themes	146	(1)
Style	147	(1)
Historical Context	148	(2)
Critical Overview	150	(1)
Criticism	151	(7)
The Old Gringo	158	(22)
Carlos Fuentes
Author Biography	158	(1)
Plot Summary	159	(2)
Characters	161	(3)
Themes	164	(2)
Style	166	(1)
Historical Context	167	(2)
Critical Overview	169	(1)
Criticism	170	(10)
On the Road	180	(22)
Jack Kerouac
Author Biography	181	(1)
Plot Summary	182	(1)
Characters	183	(4)
Themes	187	(2)
Style	189	(1)
Historical Context	190	(2)
Critical Overview	192	(1)
Criticism	193	(9)
Sister Carrie	202	(17)
Theodore Dreiser
Author Biography	203	(1)
Plot Summary	203	(2)
Characters	205	(2)
Themes	207	(2)
Style	209	(2)
Historical Context	211	(2)
Critical Overview	213	(1)
Criticism	214	(5)
Song of Solomon	219	(23)
Toni Morrison
Author Biography	219	(2)
Plot Summary	221	(2)
Characters	223	(3)
Themes	226	(1)
Style	227	(1)
Historical Context	227	(2)
Critical Overview	229	(1)
Criticism	230	(12)
Ten Little Indians	242	(18)
Agatha Christie
Author Biography	243	(1)
Plot Summary	243	(2)
Characters	245	(3)
Themes	248	(1)
Style	249	(1)
Historical Context	250	(1)
Critical Overview	251	(1)
Criticism	252	(8)
them	260	(26)
Joyce Carol Oates
Author Biography	261	(1)
Plot Summary	261	(2)
Characters	263	(3)
Themes	266	(2)
Style	268	(1)
Historical Context	269	(2)
Critical Overview	271	(1)
Criticism	272	(14)
To the Lighthouse	286	(21)
Virginia Woolf
Author Biography	287	(1)
Plot Summary	287	(1)
Characters	288	(4)
Themes	292	(2)
Style	294	(1)
Historical Context	295	(2)
Critical Overview	297	(1)
Criticism	298	(9)
Glossary of Literary Terms	307	(12)
Cumulative Author/Title Index	319	(4)
Cumulative Nationality/Ethnicity Index	323	(4)
Subject/Theme Index	327