Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-338) and index.
Contents:
A Bend in the River / V.S. Naipaul -- Candide, or Optimism / Voltaire -- Chronicle of a Death Foretold / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Dead Man's Path / Chinua Achebe -- Dubliners / James Joyce -- The Fellowship of the Ring / J.R.R. Tolkien -- The God of Small Things / Arundhati Roy -- Half a Life / V.S. Naipaul -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone / J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets / J.K. Rowling -- Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad -- The Hound of the Baskervilles / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The House of Spirits / Isabel Allende -- Illywhacker / Peter Carey -- Just So Stories / Rudyard Kipling -- Loaded / Christos Tsiolka -- Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield -- Moll Flanders / Daniel Defoe -- My Life as a Fake / Peter Carey -- Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen -- The Overcoat / Nikolai Gogol -- The Picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / James Joyce -- The Prophecy / Anjana Appachana -- The Return of the King / J.R.R. Tolkien -- Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe -- Schindler's List / Thomas Keneally -- At Swim-Two-Birds / Flann O'Brien -- A Tale of Two Cities / Charles Dickens -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles / Thomas Hardy -- And Then There Were None / Agatha Christie -- The Time Machine / H.G. Wells -- To the Lighthouse / Virginia Woolf -- The Two Towers / J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Twyborn Affair / Patrick White -- Ulysses / James Joyce -- The War of the Worlds / H.G. Wells -- The Waves / Virginia Woolf -- The Year of Living Dangerously / Christopher Koch.
Summary:
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.
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