Bloom's major novelists

Contains plot summaries and character lists for two novels by Stephen Crane, including "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets," and "The Red Badge of Courage," each with a selection of critical essays; and includes biographical information about the author.

Contains plot summaries and character lists for two novels by Stendhal, including "The Red and the Black," and "The Charterhouse of Parma," each with a selection of critical essays; and includes biographical information about the author.

Contains plot summaries and character lists for three works by Marcel Proust, including "In Search of Lost Time," "Swann's Way," and "Cities of the Plain," each with a selection of critical essays; and includes biographical information about the author.

Contains plot summaries and character lists for five novels by Jane Austen, including "Sense and Sensibility," "Pride and Prejudice," "Mansfield Park," "Emma," and "Persuasion," each with a selection of critical essays; and includes biographical information about the author.

Contains plot summaries and character lists for four novels by Toni Morrison, including "The Bluest Eye, " "Sula, " "Song of Solomon, " and "Beloved, " each with a selection of critical essays; and includes biographical information about the author.

Contains plot summaries and character lists for three works by Herman Melville, including "Moby-Dick, " "Pierre, or the Ambiguities, " and "The Confidence Man, " each with a selection of critical essays; and includes biographical information about the author.

Contains plot summaries and character lists for four novels by Fyodor Dostoevsky, including "Crime and Punishment, " "The Idiot, " "Demons" and "The Brothers Karamazov, " each with a selection of critical essays; and includes biographical information about the author.

Contains a plot summary and character list for James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," as well as a thematic and structural analysis of his novel "Ulysses," both with a selection of critical essays; and includes biographical information about the author.

Contains plot summaries and character lists for five works by Henry James, including "Washington Square," "The Portrait of a Lady," "The Wings of the Dove," "The Ambassadors," and "The Golden Bowl," each with a selection of critical essays; and includes biographical information about the author.