Novels for students [electronic resource] Volume 10 : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels / Michael L. LaBlanc and Ira Mark Milne, editors ; foreword by Anne Devereaux Jordan.
Atlas shrugged / Ayn Rand -- Breathing lessons / Anne Tyler -- A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens -- Chronicle of a death foretold / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The dead of the house / Hannah Green -- House made of dawn / N. Scott Momaday -- Howards end / E.M. Forster -- The naked and the dead / Norman Mailer -- Pigs in heaven / Barbara Kingsolver -- Shogun: a novel of Japan / James du Maresq Clavell -- Summer of my German soldier / Bette Greene -- War and peace / Leo Tolstoy.
Summary
Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism.