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Title:
World literature.
Publication Information:
Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2014]

©2014
Call Number:
PN524 .W67 2014
Abstract:
This book "provides richly detailed essays on significant works of literature from around the world that are studied by high school and undergraduate college students. With coverage of both novels and works of short fiction, the essays provide an in-depth examination of the most studied, historical and contemporary works of literature from around the world."-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9781619254831
Series:
Introduction to literary context

Introduction to literary context (Salem Press)
Physical Description:
xiv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Contents:
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul -- Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire -- Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Dead Man's Path by Chinua Achebe -- Dubliners by James Joyce -- The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien -- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy -- Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling -- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad -- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle -- The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende -- Illywhacker by Peter Carey -- Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling -- Loaded by Christos Tsiolka -- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka -- Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield -- Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe -- My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey -- Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen -- The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol -- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce -- The Prophecy by Anjana Appachana -- The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien -- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe -- Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally -- At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien -- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy -- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie -- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells -- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf -- The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White -- Ulysses by James Joyce -- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells -- The Waves by Virginia Woolf -- The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch.
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