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The birth-mark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Cat in the rain / Ernest Hemingway -- Gentleman of Rio en Medio / Juan A.A. Sedillo -- Home / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The homecoming stranger / Bei Dao -- Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff -- In a grove /...
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The birth-mark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Cat in the rain / Ernest Hemingway -- Gentleman of Rio en Medio / Juan A.A. Sedillo -- Home / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The homecoming stranger / Bei Dao -- Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff -- In a grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa -- The law of life / Jack London -- Mista Courifer / Adelaide Casely-Hayford -- The outlaws / Selma Lagerlof -- A pair of silk stockings / Kate Chopin -- A shocking accident / Graham Greene -- The street of the Canon / Josephina Niggli -- A sunrise on the veld / Doris Lessing. Presents vital information on the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels. Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism
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The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells -- First confession / Frank O'Connor -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Greasy lake / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- An hour with Abuelo / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Impulse /...
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The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells -- First confession / Frank O'Connor -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Greasy lake / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- An hour with Abuelo / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Impulse / Conrad Aiken -- The lucky stone / Lucille Clifton -- The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- The night face up / Julio Cortazar -- The rain came / Grace Ogot -- Wasps' nest / Agatha Christie -- The white umbrella / Gish Jen -- The widow and the parrot : a true story / Virginia Woolf. Presents vital information on the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels. Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism
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Poetry for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 41
Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens -- The canonization / John Donne -- Cinderella / Anne Sexton -- Constantly risking absurdity / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The cucumber / Nazim Hikmet -- A display of mackerel / Mark Doty -- The end and the...
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Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens -- The canonization / John Donne -- Cinderella / Anne Sexton -- Constantly risking absurdity / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The cucumber / Nazim Hikmet -- A display of mackerel / Mark Doty -- The end and the beginning / Wislawa Szymborska -- The floral apron / Marilyn Chin -- The forge / Seamus Heaney -- Home burial / Robert Frost -- I, being born a woman and distressed (Sonnet XVIII) / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- In the inner city / Lucille Clifton -- Love among the ruins / Robert Browning -- New world / N. Scott Momaday -- United Fruit Co. / Pablo Neruda -- What are friends for / Rosellen Brown. Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction
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Poetry for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 40
Another feeling / by Ruth Stone -- Civilian and soldier / by Wole Soyinka -- Defining the grateful gesture / by Yvonne Sapia -- For the young who want to / by Marge Piercy -- I am learning to abandon the world / by Linda Pastan -- In just / by e.e....
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Another feeling / by Ruth Stone -- Civilian and soldier / by Wole Soyinka -- Defining the grateful gesture / by Yvonne Sapia -- For the young who want to / by Marge Piercy -- I am learning to abandon the world / by Linda Pastan -- In just / by e.e. cummings -- The journey / by Mary Oliver -- Legal alien / by Pat Mora -- London / by William Blake -- Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / by Alfred Edward Housman -- The moon at the fortified pass / by Li Po -- The mother / by Gwendolyn Brooks -- Night journey / by Theodore Roethke -- Spring and fall : to a young girl / by Gerard Manley Hopkins -- We wear the mask / by Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Who understands me but me / by Jimmy Santiago Baca. Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction
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Poetry for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 39
Corinna's going a-maying / by Robert Herrick -- Domestic violence / by Eavan Boland -- Exile / by Julia Alvarez -- Flounder / by Natasha Trethewey -- Frost at midnight / by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Ghost of a chance / by Adrienne Rich -- Let...
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Corinna's going a-maying / by Robert Herrick -- Domestic violence / by Eavan Boland -- Exile / by Julia Alvarez -- Flounder / by Natasha Trethewey -- Frost at midnight / by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Ghost of a chance / by Adrienne Rich -- Let evening come / by Jane Kenyon -- The listeners / by Walter de la Mare -- Miracles / by Walt Whitman -- The powwow at the end of the world / by Sherman Alexie -- Sea canes / by Derek Walcott -- Seven laments for the war-dead / by Yehuda Amichai -- Song for the last act / by Louise Bogan -- Syrinx / by Amy Clampitt -- Thoughts of Hanoi / by Nguyen Thi Vinh -- The tide rises, the tide falls / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction
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Novels for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels ; Volume 40
The bingo palace / Louise Erdrich -- Clueless -- The color purple -- The corrections / Jonathan Franzen -- The idiot / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Jazz / Toni Morrison -- King Solomon's mines / H. Rider Haggard -- The mists of Avalon / Marion Zimmer...
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The bingo palace / Louise Erdrich -- Clueless -- The color purple -- The corrections / Jonathan Franzen -- The idiot / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Jazz / Toni Morrison -- King Solomon's mines / H. Rider Haggard -- The mists of Avalon / Marion Zimmer Bradley -- Monster / Walter Dean Myers -- The ox-bow incident / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- The road / Cormac McCarthy -- Stranger in a strange land / Robert A. Heinlein -- Waiting for the rain / Sheila Gordon -- White teeth / Zadie Smith. Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance
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Novels for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels ; Volume 39
American born Chinese / Gene Leun Yang -- Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress / Dai Sijie -- The cruel sea / Nicholas Monsarrat -- The grapes of wrath -- Half a life / Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul -- The help / Kathryn Stockett -- Housekeeping...
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American born Chinese / Gene Leun Yang -- Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress / Dai Sijie -- The cruel sea / Nicholas Monsarrat -- The grapes of wrath -- Half a life / Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul -- The help / Kathryn Stockett -- Housekeeping / Marilynne Robinson -- The human comedy / William Saroyan -- Montana 1948 / Larry Watson -- The moonstone / Wilkie Collins -- Number the stars / Lois Lowry -- Olive Kitteridge / Elizabeth Strout -- Oryx and crake / Margaret Atwood -- The remains of the day. Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance
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Novels for students
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The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / Sherman Alexie -- Digging to America / Anne Tyler -- Dreaming in Cuban / Cristina Garcia -- The fifth child / Doris Lessing -- Gone with the wind -- My brother Sam is dead / James Lincoln Collier --...
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The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / Sherman Alexie -- Digging to America / Anne Tyler -- Dreaming in Cuban / Cristina Garcia -- The fifth child / Doris Lessing -- Gone with the wind -- My brother Sam is dead / James Lincoln Collier -- My name is Asher Lev / Chaim Potok -- Neuromancer / William Gibson -- The pathfinder; or, The inland sea / James Fenimore Cooper -- Schindler's list -- The shipping news / Annie Proulx -- Sister of my heart / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- A town like Alice / Nevil Shute -- The unvanquished / William Faulkner. Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance
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Drama for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas ; Volume 29
12 angry men -- The Cuban swimmer / by Milcha Sanchez-Scott -- Guys and dolls / by Jo Swerling, Abe Burrows, and Frank Loesser -- Look homeward, angel / by Ketti Frings -- Los vendidos / by Luis Valdez -- Poof! / by Lynn Nottage -- A raisin in the...
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12 angry men -- The Cuban swimmer / by Milcha Sanchez-Scott -- Guys and dolls / by Jo Swerling, Abe Burrows, and Frank Loesser -- Look homeward, angel / by Ketti Frings -- Los vendidos / by Luis Valdez -- Poof! / by Lynn Nottage -- A raisin in the sun -- The stronger / by August Strindberg -- They knew what they wanted / by Sidney Howard -- Time flies / by David Ives -- Trying to find Chinatown / by David Henry Hwang -- Workout / by Wendy Wasserstein. Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; understandable essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary
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Poetry for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 41
Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens -- The canonization / John Donne -- Cinderella / Anne Sexton -- Constantly risking absurdity / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The cucumber / Nazim Hikmet -- A display of mackerel / Mark Doty -- The end and the...
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Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens -- The canonization / John Donne -- Cinderella / Anne Sexton -- Constantly risking absurdity / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The cucumber / Nazim Hikmet -- A display of mackerel / Mark Doty -- The end and the beginning / Wislawa Szymborska -- The floral apron / Marilyn Chin -- The forge / Seamus Heaney -- Home burial / Robert Frost -- I, being born a woman and distressed (Sonnet XVIII) / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- In the inner city / Lucille Clifton -- Love among the ruins / Robert Browning -- New world / N. Scott Momaday -- United Fruit Co. / Pablo Neruda -- What are friends for / Rosellen Brown. Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction
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Poetry for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 40
Another feeling / by Ruth Stone -- Civilian and soldier / by Wole Soyinka -- Defining the grateful gesture / by Yvonne Sapia -- For the young who want to / by Marge Piercy -- I am learning to abandon the world / by Linda Pastan -- In just / by e.e....
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Another feeling / by Ruth Stone -- Civilian and soldier / by Wole Soyinka -- Defining the grateful gesture / by Yvonne Sapia -- For the young who want to / by Marge Piercy -- I am learning to abandon the world / by Linda Pastan -- In just / by e.e. cummings -- The journey / by Mary Oliver -- Legal alien / by Pat Mora -- London / by William Blake -- Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / by Alfred Edward Housman -- The moon at the fortified pass / by Li Po -- The mother / by Gwendolyn Brooks -- Night journey / by Theodore Roethke -- Spring and fall : to a young girl / by Gerard Manley Hopkins -- We wear the mask / by Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Who understands me but me / by Jimmy Santiago Baca. Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction
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Poetry for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 39
Corinna's going a-maying / by Robert Herrick -- Domestic violence / by Eavan Boland -- Exile / by Julia Alvarez -- Flounder / by Natasha Trethewey -- Frost at midnight / by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Ghost of a chance / by Adrienne Rich -- Let...
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Corinna's going a-maying / by Robert Herrick -- Domestic violence / by Eavan Boland -- Exile / by Julia Alvarez -- Flounder / by Natasha Trethewey -- Frost at midnight / by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Ghost of a chance / by Adrienne Rich -- Let evening come / by Jane Kenyon -- The listeners / by Walter de la Mare -- Miracles / by Walt Whitman -- The powwow at the end of the world / by Sherman Alexie -- Sea canes / by Derek Walcott -- Seven laments for the war-dead / by Yehuda Amichai -- Song for the last act / by Louise Bogan -- Syrinx / by Amy Clampitt -- Thoughts of Hanoi / by Nguyen Thi Vinh -- The tide rises, the tide falls / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction
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Novels for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels ; Volume 40
The bingo palace / Louise Erdrich -- Clueless -- The color purple -- The corrections / Jonathan Franzen -- The idiot / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Jazz / Toni Morrison -- King Solomon's mines / H. Rider Haggard -- The mists of Avalon / Marion Zimmer...
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The bingo palace / Louise Erdrich -- Clueless -- The color purple -- The corrections / Jonathan Franzen -- The idiot / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Jazz / Toni Morrison -- King Solomon's mines / H. Rider Haggard -- The mists of Avalon / Marion Zimmer Bradley -- Monster / Walter Dean Myers -- The ox-bow incident / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- The road / Cormac McCarthy -- Stranger in a strange land / Robert A. Heinlein -- Waiting for the rain / Sheila Gordon -- White teeth / Zadie Smith. Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance
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Novels for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels ; Volume 39
American born Chinese / Gene Leun Yang -- Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress / Dai Sijie -- The cruel sea / Nicholas Monsarrat -- The grapes of wrath -- Half a life / Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul -- The help / Kathryn Stockett -- Housekeeping...
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American born Chinese / Gene Leun Yang -- Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress / Dai Sijie -- The cruel sea / Nicholas Monsarrat -- The grapes of wrath -- Half a life / Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul -- The help / Kathryn Stockett -- Housekeeping / Marilynne Robinson -- The human comedy / William Saroyan -- Montana 1948 / Larry Watson -- The moonstone / Wilkie Collins -- Number the stars / Lois Lowry -- Olive Kitteridge / Elizabeth Strout -- Oryx and crake / Margaret Atwood -- The remains of the day. Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance
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Novels for students
presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels ; Volume 38
The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / Sherman Alexie -- Digging to America / Anne Tyler -- Dreaming in Cuban / Cristina Garcia -- The fifth child / Doris Lessing -- Gone with the wind -- My brother Sam is dead / James Lincoln Collier --...
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The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / Sherman Alexie -- Digging to America / Anne Tyler -- Dreaming in Cuban / Cristina Garcia -- The fifth child / Doris Lessing -- Gone with the wind -- My brother Sam is dead / James Lincoln Collier -- My name is Asher Lev / Chaim Potok -- Neuromancer / William Gibson -- The pathfinder; or, The inland sea / James Fenimore Cooper -- Schindler's list -- The shipping news / Annie Proulx -- Sister of my heart / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- A town like Alice / Nevil Shute -- The unvanquished / William Faulkner. Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance
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Drama for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas ; Volume 29
12 angry men -- The Cuban swimmer / by Milcha Sanchez-Scott -- Guys and dolls / by Jo Swerling, Abe Burrows, and Frank Loesser -- Look homeward, angel / by Ketti Frings -- Los vendidos / by Luis Valdez -- Poof! / by Lynn Nottage -- A raisin in the...
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12 angry men -- The Cuban swimmer / by Milcha Sanchez-Scott -- Guys and dolls / by Jo Swerling, Abe Burrows, and Frank Loesser -- Look homeward, angel / by Ketti Frings -- Los vendidos / by Luis Valdez -- Poof! / by Lynn Nottage -- A raisin in the sun -- The stronger / by August Strindberg -- They knew what they wanted / by Sidney Howard -- Time flies / by David Ives -- Trying to find Chinatown / by David Henry Hwang -- Workout / by Wendy Wasserstein. Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; understandable essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary
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Poetry for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 41
Anecdote of the jar, by Wallace Stevens -- The canonization, by John Donne -- Cinderella, by Anne Sexton -- Constantly risking absurdity, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The cucumber, by Nazim Hikmet -- A display of mackerel, by Mark Doty -- The end and...
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Anecdote of the jar, by Wallace Stevens -- The canonization, by John Donne -- Cinderella, by Anne Sexton -- Constantly risking absurdity, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The cucumber, by Nazim Hikmet -- A display of mackerel, by Mark Doty -- The end and the beginning, by Wislawa Szymborska -- The floral apron, by Marilyn Chin -- The forge, by Seamus Heaney -- Home burial, by Robert Frost -- I, being born a woman and distressed (Sonnet XVIII), by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- In the inner city, by Lucille Clifton -- Love among the ruins, by Robert Browning -- New world, by N. Scott Momaday -- United Fruit Co., by Pablo Neruda -- What are friends for, by Rosellen Brown. Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction
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Novels for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels ; Volume 40
The bingo palace, by Louise Erdrich -- Clueless -- The color purple -- The corrections, by Jonathan Franzen -- The idiot, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Jazz, by Toni Morrison -- King Solomon's mines, by H. Rider Haggard -- The mists of Avalon, by Marion...
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The bingo palace, by Louise Erdrich -- Clueless -- The color purple -- The corrections, by Jonathan Franzen -- The idiot, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Jazz, by Toni Morrison -- King Solomon's mines, by H. Rider Haggard -- The mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley -- Monster, by Walter Dean Myers -- The ox-bow incident, by Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- The road, by Cormac McCarthy -- Stranger in a strange land, by Robert A. Heinlein -- Waiting for the rain, by Sheila Gordon -- White teeth, by Zadie Smith. Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance
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Novels for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels ; Volume 39
American born Chinese by Gene Leun Yang -- Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress by Dai Sijie -- The cruel sea by Nicholas Monsarrat -- The grapes of wrath -- Half a life by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul -- The help by Kathryn Stockett --...
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American born Chinese by Gene Leun Yang -- Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress by Dai Sijie -- The cruel sea by Nicholas Monsarrat -- The grapes of wrath -- Half a life by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul -- The help by Kathryn Stockett -- Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson -- The human comedy by William Saroyan -- Montana 1948 by Larry Watson -- The moonstone by Wilkie Collins -- Number the stars by Lois Lowry -- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout -- Oryx and crake by Margaret Atwood -- The remains of the day. Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance
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Poetry for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 40
Another feeling / by Ruth Stone -- Civilian and soldier / by Wole Soyinka -- Defining the grateful gesture / by Yvonne Sapia -- For the young who want to / by Marge Piercy -- I am learning to abandon the world / by Linda Pastan -- In just / by e.e....
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Another feeling / by Ruth Stone -- Civilian and soldier / by Wole Soyinka -- Defining the grateful gesture / by Yvonne Sapia -- For the young who want to / by Marge Piercy -- I am learning to abandon the world / by Linda Pastan -- In just / by e.e. cummings -- The journey / by Mary Oliver -- Legal alien / by Pat Mora -- London / by William Blake -- Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / by Alfred Edward Housman -- The moon at the fortified pass / by Li Po -- The mother / by Gwendolyn Brooks -- Night journey / by Theodore Roethke -- Spring and fall : to a young girl / by Gerard Manley Hopkins -- We wear the mask / by Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Who understands me but me / by Jimmy Santiago Baca. Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction
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Short stories for students
presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories ; Volume 35
The birth-mark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Cat in the rain / Ernest Hemingway -- Gentleman of Rio en Medio / Juan A.A. Sedillo -- Home / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The homecoming stranger / Bei Dao -- Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff -- In a grove /...
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The birth-mark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Cat in the rain / Ernest Hemingway -- Gentleman of Rio en Medio / Juan A.A. Sedillo -- Home / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The homecoming stranger / Bei Dao -- Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff -- In a grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa -- The law of life / Jack London -- Mista Courifer / Adelaide Casely-Hayford -- The outlaws / Selma Lagerlof -- A pair of silk stockings / Kate Chopin -- A shocking accident / Graham Greene -- The street of the Canon / Josephina Niggli -- A sunrise on the veld / Doris Lessing. Presents vital information on the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels. Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism
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Short stories for students
presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories ; Volume 34
The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells -- First confession / Frank O'Connor -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Greasy lake / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- An hour with Abuelo / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Impulse /...
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The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells -- First confession / Frank O'Connor -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Greasy lake / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- An hour with Abuelo / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Impulse / Conrad Aiken -- The lucky stone / Lucille Clifton -- The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- The night face up / Julio Cortazar -- The rain came / Grace Ogot -- Wasps' nest / Agatha Christie -- The white umbrella / Gish Jen -- The widow and the parrot : a true story / Virginia Woolf. Presents vital information on the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels. Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism
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Drama for students. Volume 29
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; understandable essays on...
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Universität Frankfurt, Elektronische Ressourcen
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Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; understandable essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.
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Poetry for students. Volume 39
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
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Universität Frankfurt, Elektronische Ressourcen
Fernleihe:
keine Fernleihe
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Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
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Poetry for students. Volume 40
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
mehr
Standort:
Universität Frankfurt, Elektronische Ressourcen
Fernleihe:
keine Fernleihe
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Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
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