xviii, 350 pages : illustrations, portraits, photographs ; 29 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
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 -- The 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 García Márquez -- Of mice and men / John Steinbeck -- Ordinary people / Judith Guest -- Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen -- The scarlet letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Summary
Presents a collection of critical and analytical articles on fifteen popular works of fiction, including brief biographical sketches of the authors.