Novels for Students

by Stanley, Deborah A.

• ISBN13: 9780787638283
• ISBN10: 0787638285
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning

Summary

Each volume in the Novels for Students series contains easily accessible and context-rich discussions of the literary and historical significance of approximately 15 major works from various cultures and time periods.

Table of Contents

Guest Foreword
``The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature''	viii
Anne Devereaux Jordan
Introduction	x
Literary Chronology	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Contributors	xviii
Always Coming Home	1	(25)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Author Biography	2	(1)
Plot Summary	2	(3)
Characters	5	(3)
Themes	8	(2)
Style	10	(1)
Historical Context	11	(2)
Critical Overview	13	(1)
Criticism	14	(1)
Criticism	14	(12)
Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative	26	(24)
Herman Melville
Author Biography	27	(1)
Plot Summary	27	(2)
Characters	29	(4)
Themes	33	(1)
Style	34	(3)
Historical Context	37	(1)
Critical Overview	38	(1)
Criticism	39	(11)
Deliverance	50	(17)
James Dickey
Author Biography	50	(1)
Plot Summary	51	(2)
Characters	53	(4)
Themes	57	(1)
Style	58	(1)
Historical Context	59	(2)
Critical Overview	61	(1)
Criticism	62	(1)
Criticism	62	(5)
The Fixer	67	(23)
Bernard Malamud
Author Biography	68	(1)
Plot Summary	68	(3)
Characters	71	(3)
Themes	74	(2)
Style	76	(1)
Historical Context	77	(3)
Critical Overview	80	(1)
Criticism	81	(9)
Gone with the Wind	90	(19)
Margaret Mitchell
Author Biography	91	(1)
Plot Summary	91	(2)
Characters	93	(4)
Themes	97	(1)
Style	98	(2)
Historical Context	100	(2)
Critical Overview	102	(1)
Criticism	103	(6)
In the Time of the Butterflies	109	(23)
Julia Alvarez
Author Biography	110	(1)
Plot Summary	111	(1)
Characters	112	(5)
Themes	117	(2)
Style	119	(1)
Historical Context	120	(3)
Critical Overview	123	(1)
Criticism	124	(8)
The Last of the Mohicans	132	(19)
James Fenimore Cooper
Author Biography	133	(1)
Plot Summary	133	(2)
Characters	135	(3)
Themes	138	(2)
Style	140	(1)
Historical Context	141	(2)
Critical Overview	143	(1)
Criticism	144	(7)
Lolita	151	(16)
Vladimir Nabokov
Author Biography	152	(1)
Plot Summary	152	(1)
Characters	153	(3)
Themes	156	(1)
Style	157	(1)
Historical Context	158	(1)
Critical Overview	159	(1)
Criticism	160	(7)
On the Beach	167	(20)
Nevil Shute
Author Biography	167	(2)
Plot Summary	169	(2)
Characters	171	(3)
Themes	174	(1)
Style	175	(1)
Historical Context	176	(3)
Critical Overview	179	(1)
Criticism	179	(8)
Out of Africa	187	(18)
Isak Dinesen
Author Biography	188	(1)
Plot Summary	188	(1)
Characters	189	(3)
Themes	192	(1)
Style	193	(1)
Historical Context	193	(2)
Critical Overview	195	(1)
Criticism	196	(9)
The Prince	205	(23)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Author Biography	206	(1)
Plot Summary	206	(2)
Characters	208	(1)
Themes	209	(2)
Style	211	(1)
Historical Context	211	(2)
Critical Overview	213	(1)
Criticism	214	(14)
Robinson Crusoe	228	(23)
Daniel Defoe
Author Biography	228	(1)
Plot Summary	229	(2)
Characters	231	(2)
Themes	233	(1)
Style	234	(1)
Historical Context	235	(3)
Critical Overview	238	(1)
Criticism	239	(12)
Roots: The Story of an American Family	251	(19)
Alex Haley
Author Biography	251	(1)
Plot Summary	252	(2)
Characters	254	(2)
Themes	256	(1)
Style	257	(1)
Historical Context	258	(1)
Critical Overview	259	(1)
Criticism	260	(10)
Rubyfruit Jungle	270	(14)
Rita Mae Brown
Author Biography	270	(1)
Plot Summary	271	(1)
Characters	272	(3)
Themes	275	(1)
Style	276	(1)
Historical Context	277	(2)
Critical Overview	279	(1)
Criticism	280	(4)
Tex	284	(17)
S.E. Hinton
Author Biography	284	(1)
Plot Summary	285	(1)
Characters	286	(2)
Themes	288	(2)
Style	290	(1)
Historical Context	290	(2)
Critical Overview	292	(1)
Criticism	293	(8)
Glossary of Literary Terms	301	(12)
Cumulative Author/Title Index	313	(4)
Cumulative Nationality/Ethnicity Index	317	(4)
Subject/Theme Index	321