american literature

Contains profiles of ten nineteenth-century American literary authors, from Washington Irving to Stephen Crane, and assesses their work and its significance for American life and culture.

Presents excepts from American novels, short stories, poems, speeches, letters, biographies, plays, and journalistic reports that provide insight into some of the significant events and trends of the past.

A compilation of more than 140 folk songs, tales, poems, and stories telling the history of America and reflecting its multicultural society.