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Novels for students
presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels ; Volume 12
The ambassadors / Henry James -- Animal dreams / Barbara Kingsolver -- Bless me, Ultima / Rudolfo Anaya -- The bride price / Buchi Emecheta -- The edible woman / Margaret Atwood -- Little women / Louisa May Alcott -- Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf --...
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The ambassadors / Henry James -- Animal dreams / Barbara Kingsolver -- Bless me, Ultima / Rudolfo Anaya -- The bride price / Buchi Emecheta -- The edible woman / Margaret Atwood -- Little women / Louisa May Alcott -- Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf -- The octopus / Frank Norris -- The painted bird / Jerzy Kosinski -- Pilgrims in Aztlan / Miguel Mendez -- Rabbit, run / John Updike -- Rebecca / Daphne du Maurier -- The slave dancer / Paula Fox -- Too late the phalarope / Alan Paton -- The world according to Garp / John Irving. 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
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Novels for students
presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels ; Volume 11
The age of innocence / Edith Wharton -- Appointment in Samarra / John O'Hara -- Bastard out of Carolina / Dorothy Allison -- Betsey Brown / Ntozake Shange -- Body and soul / Frank Conroy -- Cane / Jean Toomer -- The clan of the cave bear / Jean Auel...
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The age of innocence / Edith Wharton -- Appointment in Samarra / John O'Hara -- Bastard out of Carolina / Dorothy Allison -- Betsey Brown / Ntozake Shange -- Body and soul / Frank Conroy -- Cane / Jean Toomer -- The clan of the cave bear / Jean Auel -- The crazy horse electric game / Chris Crutcher -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The grass dancer / Susan Power -- Less than zero / Bret Easton Ellis -- The return of the native / Thomas Hardy -- A room with a view / E.M. Forster -- The stone angel / Margaret Laurence -- Watership down / Richard Adams. 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
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Nonfiction classics for students
presenting analysis, context, and criticism on nonfiction works
vol. 1. Angela's ashes / Frank McCourt -- Aspects of the novel / E. M. Forster -- Black boy / Richard Wright -- Darkness visible / William Styron -- The education of Henry Adams / Henry Brooks Adams -- The journalist and the murderer / Janet Malcolm...
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vol. 1. Angela's ashes / Frank McCourt -- Aspects of the novel / E. M. Forster -- Black boy / Richard Wright -- Darkness visible / William Styron -- The education of Henry Adams / Henry Brooks Adams -- The journalist and the murderer / Janet Malcolm -- Lindbergh / A. Scott Berg -- The making of the atomic bomb / Richard Rhodes -- My brother / Jamaica Kincaid -- Paula / Isabel Allende -- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek / Annie Dillard -- A preface to morals / Walter Lippmann -- Silent spring / Rachel Carson -- The souls of Black folk / W. E. B. Du Bois -- A study of history / Arnold J. Toynbee. vol. 2. Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl / Anne Frank -- Cadillac desert: the American West and its disappearing water / Marc Reisner -- Design for dying / Timothy Leary -- The double helix / James D. Watson -- Eleanor Roosevelt, volume one, 1884-1933 / Blanche Wiesen Cook -- Good-bye to all that / Robert Graves -- I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou -- In cold blood / Truman Capote -- Madame Curie / Eve Curie -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself / Frederick Douglass -- Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen -- Profiles in courage / John Fitzgerald Kennedy -- A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf -- The story of my life / Helen Keller -- Undaunted courage / Stephen E. Ambrose. vol. 3. The affluent society / John Kenneth Galbraith -- Autobiographies / William Butler Yeats -- The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X -- Backlash: the undeclared war against American women / Susan Faludi -- Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody -- Hunger of memory: the education of Richard Rodriguez / Richard Rodriguez -- The interpretation of dreams / Sigmund Freud -- I remain in darkness / Annie Ernaux -- I will bear witness: a diary of the Nazi years, 1933-1941 / Victor Klemperer -- News of a kidnapping / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Operating instructions / Anne Lamott -- Self-reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Shadow and act / Ralph Ellison -- A theory of justice / John Rawls -- Walden / Henry David Thoreau. vol. 4. The American language / H. L. Mencken -- The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas / Gertrude Stein -- The autobiography of Mark Twain / Mark Twain -- Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia / Rebecca West -- The diary of Samuel Pepys / Samuel Pepys -- Elizabeth the Great / Elizabeth Jenkins -- Eminent Victorians / Lytton Strachey -- The Gnostic gospels / Elaine Pagels -- In the American grain / William Carlos Williams -- Kaffir boy: the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in apartheid South Africa / Mark Mathabane -- Night / Elie Wiesel -- Notes of a native son / James Baldwin -- On growth and form / D'Arcy Thompson -- The promise of American life / Herbert Croly -- Speak, memory: an autobiography revisited / Vladimir Nabokov. vol. 5. Art and illusion: a study in the psychology of pictorial representation / E. H. Gombrich -- The basketball diaries / Jim Carroll -- A boy called H / Kappa Senoh -- Bury my heart at Wounded Knee / Dee Brown -- The elements of style / William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White -- The feminine mystique / Betty Friedan -- The golden bough / James Frazer -- The liars' club / Mary Karr -- The lost daughters of China / Karin Evans -- A mathematician's apology / G. H. Hardy -- Selected essays, 1917-1932 / T. S. Eliot -- Shame / Annie Ernaux -- Steal this book / Abbie Hoffman -- The varieties of religious experience / William James. Provides critical overviews on the most frequently studied nonfiction essays, books, biographies, and memoirs. Includes discussions of literary format, themes, and structure
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Drama for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas ; Volume 13
Amadeus / Peter Shaffer -- The cocktail party / T.S. Eliot -- Da / Hugh Leonard -- Dinner with friends / Donald Margulies -- The Jew of Malta / Christopher Marlowe -- The misanthrope / Molière -- The purple flower / Marita Bonner -- The raft / John...
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Amadeus / Peter Shaffer -- The cocktail party / T.S. Eliot -- Da / Hugh Leonard -- Dinner with friends / Donald Margulies -- The Jew of Malta / Christopher Marlowe -- The misanthrope / Molière -- The purple flower / Marita Bonner -- The raft / John Pepper Clark -- Seascape / Edward Albee -- Six degrees of separation / John Guare -- Sleuth / Anthony Shaffer -- Sticks and bones / David Rabe -- The teahouse of the August moon / John Patrick -- Travesties / Tom Stoppard -- Wit / Margaret Edson. 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; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary
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Drama for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas ; Volume 12
Anna Christie / Eugene O'Neill -- Biloxi blues / Neil Simon -- The effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds / Paul Zindel -- The fourposter / Jan de Hartog -- The government inspector / Nikolai Gogol -- The green pastures / Marc Connelly --...
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Anna Christie / Eugene O'Neill -- Biloxi blues / Neil Simon -- The effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds / Paul Zindel -- The fourposter / Jan de Hartog -- The government inspector / Nikolai Gogol -- The green pastures / Marc Connelly -- A life in the theatre / David Mamet -- The River Niger / Joseph A. Walker -- The seagull / Anton Chekov -- Street scene / Elmer Rice -- Sweet bird of youth / Tennessee Williams -- Talley's folly / Lanford Wilson -- That championship season / Jason Miller -- Top girls / Caryl Churchill -- The tower / Hugo von Hofmannsthal. 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; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary
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Drama for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas ; Volume 11
Abe Lincoln in Illinois / Robert E. Sherwood -- The amen corner / James Baldwin -- Dancing at Lughnasa / Brian Friel -- Driving Miss Daisy / Alfred Uhry -- Ghosts / Henrik Ibsen -- The great god Brown / Eugene O'Neill -- Harvey / Mary Chase -- Indian...
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois / Robert E. Sherwood -- The amen corner / James Baldwin -- Dancing at Lughnasa / Brian Friel -- Driving Miss Daisy / Alfred Uhry -- Ghosts / Henrik Ibsen -- The great god Brown / Eugene O'Neill -- Harvey / Mary Chase -- Indian ink / Tom Stoppard -- The insect play / Josef Capek and Karel Capek -- M. Butterfly / David Henry Hwang -- Saint Joan / George Bernard Shaw -- Shadowlands / William Nicholson -- Slave ship / Amiri Baraka -- The sleep of reason / Antonio Buero Vallejo -- Spike heels / Theresa Rebeck. 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; 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 13
An African elegy / Robert Duncan -- Birches / Robert Frost -- Blood oranges / Lisel Mueller -- Cavalry crossing a ford / Walt Whitman -- The conquerors / Phyllis McGinley -- Darwin in 1881 / Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- Daylights / Rosanna Warren -- For...
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An African elegy / Robert Duncan -- Birches / Robert Frost -- Blood oranges / Lisel Mueller -- Cavalry crossing a ford / Walt Whitman -- The conquerors / Phyllis McGinley -- Darwin in 1881 / Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- Daylights / Rosanna Warren -- For the White poets who would be Indian / Wendy Rose -- I felt a funeral, in my brain / Emily Dickinson -- i was sitting in mcsorley's / e. e. cummings -- The idea of order at Key West / Wallace Stevens -- Leda and the swan / William Butler Yeats -- The song of the smoke / W. E. B. Du Bois -- To his excellency General Washington / Phillis Wheatley -- To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick -- We live by what we see at night / Martin Espada. Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, 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 12
Anorexic / Eavan Boland -- An Arundel tomb / Philip Larkin -- The base stealer / Robert Francis -- The Czar's last Christmas letter. A barn in the Urals / Norman Dubie -- Filling station / Elizabeth Bishop -- For Jean Vincent D'abbadie, Baron...
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Anorexic / Eavan Boland -- An Arundel tomb / Philip Larkin -- The base stealer / Robert Francis -- The Czar's last Christmas letter. A barn in the Urals / Norman Dubie -- Filling station / Elizabeth Bishop -- For Jean Vincent D'abbadie, Baron St.-Castin / Alden Nowlan -- A grafted tongue / John Montague -- Having a Coke with you / Frank O'Hara -- Hope is a tattered flag / Carl Sandburg -- The lamb / William Blake -- maggie and milly and molly and may / e. e. cummings -- My mother pieced quilts / Teresa Palomo Acosta -- On freedom's ground / Richard Wilbur -- The rape of the lock / Alexander Pope -- A tall man executes a jig / Irving Layton -- Wilderness gothic / Al Purdy. Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, 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 11
Beowulf / Richard Wilbur -- Chocolates / Louis Simpson -- The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Go down, Moses / Anonymous -- The hospital window / James Dickey -- Island of the three Marias / Alberto Rios -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- The...
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Beowulf / Richard Wilbur -- Chocolates / Louis Simpson -- The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Go down, Moses / Anonymous -- The hospital window / James Dickey -- Island of the three Marias / Alberto Rios -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- The milkfish gatherers / James Fenton -- A narrow fellow in the grass / Emily Dickinson -- Overture to a dance of locomotives / William Carlos Williams -- Paradoxes and oxymorons / John Ashbery -- To a child running with outstretched arms in Canyon de Chelly / N. Scott Momaday -- Tonight I can write / Pablo Neruda -- A valediction: forbidding mourning / John Donne -- The war against the trees / Stanley Kunitz -- The weight of sweetness / Li-Young Lee. Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, 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 13
An African elegy / Robert Duncan -- Birches / Robert Frost -- Blood oranges / Lisel Mueller -- Cavalry crossing a ford / Walt Whitman -- The conquerors / Phyllis McGinley -- Darwin in 1881 / Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- Daylights / Rosanna Warren -- For...
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An African elegy / Robert Duncan -- Birches / Robert Frost -- Blood oranges / Lisel Mueller -- Cavalry crossing a ford / Walt Whitman -- The conquerors / Phyllis McGinley -- Darwin in 1881 / Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- Daylights / Rosanna Warren -- For the White poets who would be Indian / Wendy Rose -- I felt a funeral, in my brain / Emily Dickinson -- i was sitting in mcsorley's / e. e. cummings -- The idea of order at Key West / Wallace Stevens -- Leda and the swan / William Butler Yeats -- The song of the smoke / W. E. B. Du Bois -- To his excellency General Washington / Phillis Wheatley -- To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick -- We live by what we see at night / Martin Espada. Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, 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 12
Anorexic / Eavan Boland -- An Arundel tomb / Philip Larkin -- The base stealer / Robert Francis -- The Czar's last Christmas letter. A barn in the Urals / Norman Dubie -- Filling station / Elizabeth Bishop -- For Jean Vincent D'abbadie, Baron...
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Anorexic / Eavan Boland -- An Arundel tomb / Philip Larkin -- The base stealer / Robert Francis -- The Czar's last Christmas letter. A barn in the Urals / Norman Dubie -- Filling station / Elizabeth Bishop -- For Jean Vincent D'abbadie, Baron St.-Castin / Alden Nowlan -- A grafted tongue / John Montague -- Having a Coke with you / Frank O'Hara -- Hope is a tattered flag / Carl Sandburg -- The lamb / William Blake -- maggie and milly and molly and may / e. e. cummings -- My mother pieced quilts / Teresa Palomo Acosta -- On freedom's ground / Richard Wilbur -- The rape of the lock / Alexander Pope -- A tall man executes a jig / Irving Layton -- Wilderness gothic / Al Purdy. Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, 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 11
Beowulf / Richard Wilbur -- Chocolates / Louis Simpson -- The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Go down, Moses / Anonymous -- The hospital window / James Dickey -- Island of the three Marias / Alberto Rios -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- The...
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Beowulf / Richard Wilbur -- Chocolates / Louis Simpson -- The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Go down, Moses / Anonymous -- The hospital window / James Dickey -- Island of the three Marias / Alberto Rios -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- The milkfish gatherers / James Fenton -- A narrow fellow in the grass / Emily Dickinson -- Overture to a dance of locomotives / William Carlos Williams -- Paradoxes and oxymorons / John Ashbery -- To a child running with outstretched arms in Canyon de Chelly / N. Scott Momaday -- Tonight I can write / Pablo Neruda -- A valediction: forbidding mourning / John Donne -- The war against the trees / Stanley Kunitz -- The weight of sweetness / Li-Young Lee. Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism
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Novels for students
presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels ; Volume 12
The ambassadors / Henry James -- Animal dreams / Barbara Kingsolver -- Bless me, Ultima / Rudolfo Anaya -- The bride price / Buchi Emecheta -- The edible woman / Margaret Atwood -- Little women / Louisa May Alcott -- Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf --...
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The ambassadors / Henry James -- Animal dreams / Barbara Kingsolver -- Bless me, Ultima / Rudolfo Anaya -- The bride price / Buchi Emecheta -- The edible woman / Margaret Atwood -- Little women / Louisa May Alcott -- Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf -- The octopus / Frank Norris -- The painted bird / Jerzy Kosinski -- Pilgrims in Aztlan / Miguel Mendez -- Rabbit, run / John Updike -- Rebecca / Daphne du Maurier -- The slave dancer / Paula Fox -- Too late the phalarope / Alan Paton -- The world according to Garp / John Irving. 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
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Novels for students
presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels ; Volume 11
The age of innocence / Edith Wharton -- Appointment in Samarra / John O'Hara -- Bastard out of Carolina / Dorothy Allison -- Betsey Brown / Ntozake Shange -- Body and soul / Frank Conroy -- Cane / Jean Toomer -- The clan of the cave bear / Jean Auel...
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The age of innocence / Edith Wharton -- Appointment in Samarra / John O'Hara -- Bastard out of Carolina / Dorothy Allison -- Betsey Brown / Ntozake Shange -- Body and soul / Frank Conroy -- Cane / Jean Toomer -- The clan of the cave bear / Jean Auel -- The crazy horse electric game / Chris Crutcher -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The grass dancer / Susan Power -- Less than zero / Bret Easton Ellis -- The return of the native / Thomas Hardy -- A room with a view / E.M. Forster -- The stone angel / Margaret Laurence -- Watership down / Richard Adams. 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
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Nonfiction classics for students
presenting analysis, context, and criticism on nonfiction works
vol. 1. Angela's ashes / Frank McCourt -- Aspects of the novel / E. M. Forster -- Black boy / Richard Wright -- Darkness visible / William Styron -- The education of Henry Adams / Henry Brooks Adams -- The journalist and the murderer / Janet Malcolm...
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vol. 1. Angela's ashes / Frank McCourt -- Aspects of the novel / E. M. Forster -- Black boy / Richard Wright -- Darkness visible / William Styron -- The education of Henry Adams / Henry Brooks Adams -- The journalist and the murderer / Janet Malcolm -- Lindbergh / A. Scott Berg -- The making of the atomic bomb / Richard Rhodes -- My brother / Jamaica Kincaid -- Paula / Isabel Allende -- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek / Annie Dillard -- A preface to morals / Walter Lippmann -- Silent spring / Rachel Carson -- The souls of Black folk / W. E. B. Du Bois -- A study of history / Arnold J. Toynbee. vol. 2. Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl / Anne Frank -- Cadillac desert: the American West and its disappearing water / Marc Reisner -- Design for dying / Timothy Leary -- The double helix / James D. Watson -- Eleanor Roosevelt, volume one, 1884-1933 / Blanche Wiesen Cook -- Good-bye to all that / Robert Graves -- I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou -- In cold blood / Truman Capote -- Madame Curie / Eve Curie -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself / Frederick Douglass -- Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen -- Profiles in courage / John Fitzgerald Kennedy -- A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf -- The story of my life / Helen Keller -- Undaunted courage / Stephen E. Ambrose. vol. 3. The affluent society / John Kenneth Galbraith -- Autobiographies / William Butler Yeats -- The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X -- Backlash: the undeclared war against American women / Susan Faludi -- Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody -- Hunger of memory: the education of Richard Rodriguez / Richard Rodriguez -- The interpretation of dreams / Sigmund Freud -- I remain in darkness / Annie Ernaux -- I will bear witness: a diary of the Nazi years, 1933-1941 / Victor Klemperer -- News of a kidnapping / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Operating instructions / Anne Lamott -- Self-reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Shadow and act / Ralph Ellison -- A theory of justice / John Rawls -- Walden / Henry David Thoreau. vol. 4. The American language / H. L. Mencken -- The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas / Gertrude Stein -- The autobiography of Mark Twain / Mark Twain -- Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia / Rebecca West -- The diary of Samuel Pepys / Samuel Pepys -- Elizabeth the Great / Elizabeth Jenkins -- Eminent Victorians / Lytton Strachey -- The Gnostic gospels / Elaine Pagels -- In the American grain / William Carlos Williams -- Kaffir boy: the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in apartheid South Africa / Mark Mathabane -- Night / Elie Wiesel -- Notes of a native son / James Baldwin -- On growth and form / D'Arcy Thompson -- The promise of American life / Herbert Croly -- Speak, memory: an autobiography revisited / Vladimir Nabokov. vol. 5. Art and illusion: a study in the psychology of pictorial representation / E. H. Gombrich -- The basketball diaries / Jim Carroll -- A boy called H / Kappa Senoh -- Bury my heart at Wounded Knee / Dee Brown -- The elements of style / William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White -- The feminine mystique / Betty Friedan -- The golden bough / James Frazer -- The liars' club / Mary Karr -- The lost daughters of China / Karin Evans -- A mathematician's apology / G. H. Hardy -- Selected essays, 1917-1932 / T. S. Eliot -- Shame / Annie Ernaux -- Steal this book / Abbie Hoffman -- The varieties of religious experience / William James. Provides critical overviews on the most frequently studied nonfiction essays, books, biographies, and memoirs. Includes discussions of literary format, themes, and structure
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Drama for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas ; Volume 13
Amadeus / Peter Shaffer -- The cocktail party / T.S. Eliot -- Da / Hugh Leonard -- Dinner with friends / Donald Margulies -- The Jew of Malta / Christopher Marlowe -- The misanthrope / Molière -- The purple flower / Marita Bonner -- The raft / John...
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Amadeus / Peter Shaffer -- The cocktail party / T.S. Eliot -- Da / Hugh Leonard -- Dinner with friends / Donald Margulies -- The Jew of Malta / Christopher Marlowe -- The misanthrope / Molière -- The purple flower / Marita Bonner -- The raft / John Pepper Clark -- Seascape / Edward Albee -- Six degrees of separation / John Guare -- Sleuth / Anthony Shaffer -- Sticks and bones / David Rabe -- The teahouse of the August moon / John Patrick -- Travesties / Tom Stoppard -- Wit / Margaret Edson. 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; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary
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Drama for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas ; Volume 12
Anna Christie / Eugene O'Neill -- Biloxi blues / Neil Simon -- The effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds / Paul Zindel -- The fourposter / Jan de Hartog -- The government inspector / Nikolai Gogol -- The green pastures / Marc Connelly --...
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Anna Christie / Eugene O'Neill -- Biloxi blues / Neil Simon -- The effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds / Paul Zindel -- The fourposter / Jan de Hartog -- The government inspector / Nikolai Gogol -- The green pastures / Marc Connelly -- A life in the theatre / David Mamet -- The River Niger / Joseph A. Walker -- The seagull / Anton Chekov -- Street scene / Elmer Rice -- Sweet bird of youth / Tennessee Williams -- Talley's folly / Lanford Wilson -- That championship season / Jason Miller -- Top girls / Caryl Churchill -- The tower / Hugo von Hofmannsthal. 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; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary
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Drama for students
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas ; Volume 11
Abe Lincoln in Illinois / Robert E. Sherwood -- The amen corner / James Baldwin -- Dancing at Lughnasa / Brian Friel -- Driving Miss Daisy / Alfred Uhry -- Ghosts / Henrik Ibsen -- The great god Brown / Eugene O'Neill -- Harvey / Mary Chase -- Indian...
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Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois / Robert E. Sherwood -- The amen corner / James Baldwin -- Dancing at Lughnasa / Brian Friel -- Driving Miss Daisy / Alfred Uhry -- Ghosts / Henrik Ibsen -- The great god Brown / Eugene O'Neill -- Harvey / Mary Chase -- Indian ink / Tom Stoppard -- The insect play / Josef Capek and Karel Capek -- M. Butterfly / David Henry Hwang -- Saint Joan / George Bernard Shaw -- Shadowlands / William Nicholson -- Slave ship / Amiri Baraka -- The sleep of reason / Antonio Buero Vallejo -- Spike heels / Theresa Rebeck. 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; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary
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Drama for students. Volume 11
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; essays on play's construction;...
mehr
Standort:
Universität Frankfurt, Elektronische Ressourcen
Fernleihe:
keine Fernleihe
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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; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.
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Drama for students. Volume 12
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; essays on play's construction;...
mehr
Standort:
Universität Frankfurt, Elektronische Ressourcen
Fernleihe:
keine Fernleihe
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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; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.
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Drama for students. Volume 13
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; essays on play's construction;...
mehr
Standort:
Universität Frankfurt, Elektronische Ressourcen
Fernleihe:
keine Fernleihe
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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; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.
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Nonfiction classics for students
presenting analysis, context, and criticism on nonfiction works
Provides critical overviews on the most frequently studied nonfiction essays, books, biographies, and memoirs. Includes discussions of literary format, themes, and structure.
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Standort:
Universität Frankfurt, Elektronische Ressourcen
Fernleihe:
keine Fernleihe
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Provides critical overviews on the most frequently studied nonfiction essays, books, biographies, and memoirs. Includes discussions of literary format, themes, and structure.
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Novels for students. Volume 11
presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels
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...
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Standort:
Universität Frankfurt, Elektronische Ressourcen
Fernleihe:
keine Fernleihe
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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.
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Novels for students. Volume 12
presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels
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...
mehr
Standort:
Universität Frankfurt, Elektronische Ressourcen
Fernleihe:
keine Fernleihe
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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.
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Poetry for students. Volume 11
presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry
Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
mehr
Standort:
Universität Frankfurt, Elektronische Ressourcen
Fernleihe:
keine Fernleihe
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Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
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