Richard Adams's "Watership Down": A Study Guide from Gale's "Novels for Students" (Novels for Students, Vol 11)

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Summary: Volume 5, Novels for Students
Review: This concise guide is even better than Cliffs NOtes and contains the author biography, plot summary, character analysis, themes, style, historical context, critical overview and criticism for 16 novels. Novels include: A Tale of Two Cities, The Sun Also Rises, The Pearl, Ethan Frome, The Color Purple, Les Miserables, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Bean Trees, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, How the Garcia Girls lost their Accents, The Outsiders, Like Water for Chocolate, Ender's Game, Love Medicine, Giants in the Earth, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. This series covers the high points for each novel and also has great side topics: Compare and Contrast, Media Adaptions, Topics for Further Study, etc. Useful as both a study guide and a reseach source, it sucessfully highlights the points in approximately 25 pages per novel.