Collects fourteen critical essays on various aspects of the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin, " and includes an annotated bibliography and other study tools.
Presents a guide to understanding John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath, " featuring biographical information about the author, a summary and analysis of the text, a character list, and critical essays.
Presents a study guide to Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and includes biographical information on the author, a list of characters, a summary, and a series of critical essays.
A collection of essays which examine "The Bondwoman's Narrative", discussing what it revealed about slavery in the United States, who the author was, how her writing was influenced by theological, legal, and cultural contexts of antebellum American life, and other related topics.
Presents resources for studying Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses, " including a biographical sketch of the author, a list of characters, a summary and analysis of the novel, and a selection of critical views.
Profiles six novels by twentieth-century North Carolina writer Kaye Gibbons, discussing their plots, characters, settings, themes, and imagery and providing Marxist, cultural, feminist, and psychoanalytic readings.
Presents thirteen critical essays on the writings of twentieth-century West Indian poet Derek Walcott, and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by Harold Bloom.
