| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 388 pages) |
| Series |
Gale eBooks
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) / Richard Wakefield -- Beloved (Toni Morrison) / Pauls Harijs Toutonghi -- The catcher in the rye (J.D. Salinger) / Ted Weesner Jr. -- Death of a salesman (Arthur Miller) / Dominic Oliver -- "Howl" (Allen Ginsberg) / Sharon Bryan - - Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) / Lydia Rainford -- Long day's journey into night (Eugene O'Neill) / Jason Gray -- Main Street (Sinclair Lewis) / Ted Sutton -- My Antonia (Willa Cather) / Clare Morgan -- My bondage and my freedom (Frederick Douglass) / Mark Richardson -- On the road (Jack Kerouac) / Stephen F. Soitos -- The portrait of a lady (Henry James) / Jonathan Freedman -- Rabbit, run (John Updike) / Patricia B. Heaman -- The red badge of courage (Stephen Crane) / Mark Richardson -- The scarlet letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) / Ellen Weinauer -- The souls of Black folk (W.E.B. Du Bois) / Mark Richardson -- A streetcar named Desire (Tennessee Williams ) / Philip Parry -- The sun also rises (Ernest Hemingway) / Stephen Amidon -- Tales of the grotesque and arabesque (Edgar Allan Poe) / Thomas Wright -- The waste land (T.S. Eliot) / Jay Parini. |
| Summary |
Provide a historical overview of numerous widely studied works as well as a close reading of each and a consideration of its critical reception. This volume spans the century from 1896 to 1985. |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Parini, Jay, editor.
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Gale (Firm)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: American writers classics, Volume I. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, c2003 9780684312484 |
| ISBN |
9780684316031 (electronic book) |
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9780684312484 |
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0684312484 |
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