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Novels for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context & Criticism on Commonly Studied Novels

  • Series Name: Novels for Students Series
  • Volume 45
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  • ISBN-10: 141449274X
  • ISBN-13: 9781414492742
  • DDC: 809.3
  • Grade Level Range: 9th Grade - 12th Grade +
  • 355 Pages | eBook
  • Previous Editions: 2014, 2013, 2013
  • Original Copyright 2014 | Published/Released January 2014
  • This publication's content originally published in print form: 2014

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Overview

Each volume of Novels for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of 12 to 15 works from various cultures and time periods. Each novel included in this new resource was specially chosen by an advisory panel of teachers and librarians -- experts who have helped us define the information needs of students and ensure the age-appropriateness of this reference's content.

Each volume (beginning with volume 32) will include two "Literature to Film" entries. Entries profiling film versions of plays/novels not only diversify the study of plays/novels but support alternate learning styles, media literacy, and film studies curricula as well

You may also be interested in For Students Online - the complete For Students Collection in eBook format.

While Gale strives to replicate print content, some content may not be available in the eBook version due to rights restrictions. Call your Sales Rep for details.

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Novels for Students Series

When your high school students need understandable explanations of Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Color Purple, and other novels frequently studied in literature courses, direct them to this reference from Gale. Each volume of Novels For Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of 15 to 20 works from various cultures and time periods. Each novel included in this series was specially chosen by an advisory panel of teachers and librarians -- experts who have helped us define the information needs of students and ensure the age-appropriateness of this reference's content. Within the pages of Novels For Students, young researchers will discover everything they need to complete homework assignments and lead classroom discussions. You may also be interested in For Students Online - the complete For Students Collection in eBook format. While Gale strives to replicate print content, some content may not be available due to rights restrictions. Call your Sales Rep for details.

Features and Benefits

  • Student friendly: Homework help format, w/ criticism at H.S. students' interest and reading levels.
  • Librarian friendly: Lower price than more scholarly criticism volumes (e.g., Poetry Criticism).
  • Reader friendly: For patrons interested in more info on the classics or bestsellers they’re reading.
  • Curriculum Connection: Supports standards on study of literature by genre or in historical context and provides read-a-likes for common core activities.
  • Assignment based: For Students designed to match real English projects and the format facilitates compare and contrast, inquiry based activities. Title lists correlate well with textbooks, anthologies.

What's New

  • Each volume of Novels for Student contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of 12 to 15 works from various cultures and time periods.
  • Entries included in this volume: James Ramsey Ullman; Edna Ferber; Bharati Mukherjee; Tracy Chevalier; Graham Greene; Charles W. Chesnutt; Jane Hamilton; D. H. Lawrence; Jerry Spinelli; Walter Dean Myers; Joyce McDonald; and N. Scott Momaday.

Alternate Formats

  • Casebound Edition

    ISBN-10: 1414494882 | ISBN-13: 9781414494883

Table of Contents

Ullman, James Ramsey - Banner in the Sky.
Ferber, Edna – Cimarron.
Mukherjee, Bharati - Desirable Daughters.
Chevalier, Tracy - Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Greene, Graham - Heart of the Matter.
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell - The House Behind the Cedars.
Hamilton, Jane - Map of the World.
Never Let Me Go (film entry).
Lawrence, D. H. - Sons and Lovers.
Spinelli, Jerry – Stargirl.
Myers, Walter Dean - Sunrise over Fallujah.
McDonald, Joyce - Swallowing Stones.
Momaday, N. Scott - The Way to Rainy Mountain.
Wuthering Heights (film entry).