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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Introduction to literary context
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Introduction to literary context (Salem Press)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul -- Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire -- Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Dead Man's Path by Chinua Achebe -- Dubliners by James Joyce -- Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien -- God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy -- Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling -- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad -- Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle -- House of Spirits by Isabel Allende -- Illywhacker by Peter Carey -- Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling -- Loaded by Christos Tsiolka -- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka -- Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield -- Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe -- My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey -- Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen -- Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol -- Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce -- Prophecy by Anjana Appachana -- Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien -- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe -- Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally -- At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien -- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy -- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie -- Time Machine by H.G. Wells -- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf -- Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien -- Twyborn Affair by Patrick White -- Ulysses by James Joyce -- War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells -- Waves by Virginia Woolf -- Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch. |
| Summary |
This volume provides essays on significant works of literature from around the world that are studied by high school and undergraduate college students. With coverage of both novels and works of short fiction, the essays provide an in-depth examination of the most-studied historical and contemporary works of literature from around the world. Each essay includes a synopsis, societal context, scientific and technological context, and biographical context. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Literature -- History and criticism.
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Literature. |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Salem Press.
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| Added Title |
World literature |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Introduction to literary context. World literature 9781619254831 (OCoLC)877570627 |
| ISBN |
9781619254848 (electronic book) |
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1619254840 (electronic book) |
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9781619254831 |
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1619254832 |
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