Each volume of Novels for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of 12 to 15 works from various cultures and time periods. Each novel included in this new resource was specially chosen by an advisory panel of teachers and librarians -- experts who have helped us define the information needs of students and ensure the age-appropriateness of this reference's content. & are some of the novels they will find: Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner Middlemarch by Mary Anna Evans Kaddish for a Child not Born by Imre Kertesz Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields