Answer one of the following topics. You will need to support your ideas with specific examples from the texts in question (4-5 double-spaced typed pages minimum).

1) The 'problem of society' in The Counterfeiters, A Coin in Nine Hands, and The Stranger

2) In her Houston Post review, Cynthia King refers to A Coin in Nine Hands as "brilliantly constructed." Of the three novels we have studied so far, which one is--in your opinion--the most "brilliantly constructed" and why?