This volume examines the great novelists and story-writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: from Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde through Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling on to E.M. Forster.
Nick Conover, son of a factory worker, is the CEO of a major corporation. Once the most admired man in Fenwick, Michigan, Nick, having presided over massive layoffs, is now the most despised. A single parent, he's struggling to insulate his ten-year-old daughter and angry sixteen-year-old son from the town's hostility. When his family is threatened by a stalker, events spin out of control and Nick is faced with a dead body and damning circumstances. Audrey Rhimes, a police investigator with her own agenda, is determined to connect Nick to the homicide.
Adam Cassidy is twenty-six and a low level employee at a high-tech corporation who hates his job. When he manipulates the system to do something nice for a friend, he finds himself charged with a crime. Corporate Security gives him a choice: prison-or become a spy in the headquarters of their chief competitor, Trion Systems.
Each volume (beginning with volume 32) will include two "Literature to Film" entries. Entries profiling film versions of plays/novels not only diversify the study of plays/novels but support alternate learning styles, media literacy, and film studies curricula as well.
Here are some of the novels they will find:
"Atonement" by Ian McEwan
"Joseph Andrews" by Henry Fielding
"Lit to Film: Last of the Mohicans" by Gordon Parks
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The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad The novel is set in London in 1886 and follows the life of Mr. Verloc, a secret agent. Verloc is also a businessman who owns a shop which sells pornographic material, contraceptives, and bric-a-brac. He lives with his wife Winnie, his mother-in-law, and his brother-in-law, Stevie.
