Novels for students presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry (Gale Research, 1997)
Each entry or chapter focuses on one novel. Each entry heading lists the full name of the novel, the author's name, and the date of the novel's publication. The following elements are contained in each entry: introduction, author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical and cultural context, critical overview, sources, for furhter study, and criticism
V.1. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain -- The bell jar / Sylvia Plath -- Black boy / Richard Wright -- The bluest eye / Toni Morrison -- Catch-22 / Joseph Heller -- Catcher in the rye / J. D. Salinger -- Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury -- A farewell to arms / Ernest Hemingway -- Frankenstein / Mary Shelley -- The joy luck club / Amy Tan -- Love in the time of Cholera / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Of mice and men / John Steinbeck -- Ordinary people / Judith Guest -- Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen - The scarlet letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne
V.2. The chocolate war / Robert Cormier -- Dinner at the homesick restaurant / Anne Tyler -- Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes -- The great gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- The house on mango street / Sandra Cisneros -- I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou -- Invisible man / Ralph Ellison -- Lord of the flies / William Golding -- My Antonia / Willa Cather -- One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey -- A separate peace / John Knowles -- Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe -- To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee -- Wuthering heights / Emily Bronte
V.3. Animal farm / George Orwell -- Annie John / Jamaica Kincaid -- The awakening / Kate Chopin -- Crime and punishment / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Cry, the beloved country / Alan Paton -- Democracy / Joan Didion -- Ellen Foster / Kaye Gibbons -- The giver / Lois Lowry -- Grendel / John Gardner -- Obasan / Joy Kogawa -- A passage to India / E. M. Forster -- Slaughterhouse-Five / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Thomas Hardy -- Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston -- Wise blood / Flannery O'Connor -- A yellow raft in blue water / Michael Dorris