Overview
This collection includes 37 titles on social issues in literature:
Class Conflict in Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities
Death in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
Race in the Poetry of Langston Hughes
Sexuality in the Comedies of William Shakespeare
Sexuality in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Slavery in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Violence in Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange
Violence in Suzanne Collin's The Hunger Game Trilogy
War in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms
War in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried
Wilderness in Jack London's The Call of the Wild
Wilderness Adventure in Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild
Women's Issues in Alice Walker's The Color Purple
Class Conflict in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
Censorship in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
War in John Knowles's A Separate Peace
Coming of Age in Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Lives of Bees
Women's Issues in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
Colonialism in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Democracy in the Poetry of Walt Whitman
Depression in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar
The Environment in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Family Dysfunction in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie
Family Dysfunction in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
The Food Industry in Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation
Gender in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
Genocide in Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl
Poverty in John Steinbeck's The Pearl
Race in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Race in John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me
Race in William Shakespeare's Othello
Slavery in Toni Morrison's Beloved
Teen Issues in S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders
War in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
War in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front
Women's Issues in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
Women's Issues in Kate Chopin's The Awakening
