Provides classics of American literature. Covers numerous works, including novels, short story and poem series, plays, long poems, autobiographies, and nonfiction pieces.
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.
Essays describe the lives and examine the principal works of significant American authors, also providing selected primary and secondary bibliographies.
Contains essays that provide information about the lives and works of eighteen authors who have made significant contributions to American literature, each with a brief biography, a critical analysis of the writer's work, and a selected bibliography, arranged alphabetically from Abbey to Smith.
Contains essays that provide information about the lives and works of eighteen authors who have made significant contributions to American literature, each with a brief biography, a critical analysis of the writer's work, and a selected bibliography, arranged alphabetically from Bambara to Yates.
Profiles thirteen books the author believes have had the greatest influence on American history and altered the way Americans think about the world around them.
