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Series
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God, a novel about an independent and articulate black woman named Janie Crawford who sets out to be her own person in the 1930s.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
2008, p2006
Language
English
Description
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Hammett's The Maltese falcon, a novel about greed, lust, and betrayal and the story of San Francisco detective Sam Spade and a case involving treasure housed in a falcon-shaped sculpture.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
2008, p2006
Language
English
Description
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, a novel about four mothers, four daughters, and four families whose paths cross in 1949 in San Francisco as four Chinese women begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Hemingway's A farewell to arms, a novel about the tenuous nature of love in time of war told through the story of Lieutenant Henry, an American, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse, who meet during World War I.