A Readers Guide To Fifty American Novels
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Author | : Ian Ousby |
Publisher | : London : Heinemann ; New York : Barnes & Noble |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Introduces novels by Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Norman Mailer, J.D. Salinger, Ralph Ellison, and Saul Bellow.
Author | : Lynda G. Adamson |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2002-03-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
DREAMS AND THE SUPERNATURAL: Angle of repose -- Bless me, Ultima -- Ceremony -- Fools crow -- Going after Cacciato -- The great Gatsby -- The heart is a lonely hunter -- House made of dawn -- The house made of dawn -- The house of the seven gables -- Love medicine -- Mama -- Mama day -- Reservation blues -- Slaughterhouse five -- Tar baby. FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS: Absalom, absalom! -- The bell jar -- The bluest eye -- Bone -- Brown girl, brownstones -- Charlotte temple -- Cold mountain -- The color purple -- Ellen Foster -- Foxfire -- The good Earth -- House on Mango Street -- How the Garcia girls lost their accents -- In the time of butterflies -- The poisonwood bible -- The rise of Silas Lapham -- The shipping news -- Song of Solomon -- A tree grows in Brooklyn 00 To kill a mockingbird -- Washington Square. FINE ARTS AND EDUCATION: The accidental tourist -- The age of innocence -- Angle of repose -- The awakening -- The bell jar -- Brown girl, brownstones -- The chosen -- Cold mountain -- Deliverance -- Fahrenheit 451 -- Foxfire -- The heart is a lonely hunter -- The house on Mango Street -- Main Street -- Mama -- Memoirs of a Geisha -- The moviegoer -- The poisonwood bible -- Ragtime -- Reservation blues -- A river runs through it -- The shipping news -- Sister Carrie -- Slaughterhouse five -- Snow falling on cedars -- These is my words -- A tree grows in Brooklyn -- Winesburg, Ohio -- The woman warrior.
Author | : Laurie E. Rozakis |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780028633787 |
Looks at American authors from Washington Irving to John Updike and provides brief biographical sketches, excerpts and summaries of major works, and explanations of major literary movements
Author | : Ian Ousby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mortimer J. Adler |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2014-09-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1476790159 |
Investigates the art of reading by examining each aspect of reading, problems encountered, and tells how to combat them.
Author | : Angela Carstensen |
Publisher | : American Library Association |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2011-05-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 083899315X |
More than simply a vital collection development tool, this book can help librarians help young adults grow into the kind of independent readers and thinkers who will flourish at college.
Author | : Kenneth Kinnamon |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 1000 |
Release | : 1988-01-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0313064415 |
Any future biographical work on Richard Wright will find this bibliography a necessity; academic or public libraries supporting a program of black culture will find it invaluable; and it belongs in any library supporting American literature studies. Richard Wright has truly been well served. Choice The most comprehensive bibliography ever compiled for an American writer, this book contains 13,117 annotated items pertaining to Richard Wright. It includes almost all published mentions of the author or his work in every language in which those mentions appear. Sources listed include books, articles, reviews, notes, news items, publishers' catalogs, promotional materials, book jackets, dissertations and theses, encyclopedias, biographical dictionaries, handbooks and study guides, library reports, best seller charts, the Index Translationum, playbills and advertisements, editorials, radio transcripts, and published letters and interviews. The bibliography is arranged chronologically by year. Each entry includes bibliographical information, an annotation by the authors, and information about all reprintings, partial or full. The index is unusually complete and contains the titles of Wright's works, real and fictional characters in the works, entries relating to significant places and events in the author's life, important literary terminology, and much additional information.
Author | : Drewey Wayne Gunn |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2016-02-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0786499052 |
Examining the development of gay American fiction and providing an essential reading list, this literary survey covers 257 works--novels, novellas, a graphic story cycle and a narrative poem--in which gay and bisexual male characters play a major role. Iconic works, such as James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room and Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man, are included, along with titles not given attention by earlier surveys, such as Wallace Thurman's Infants of the Spring, Dashiel Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, Julian Green's Each in His Darkness, Ursula Zilinsky's Middle Ground and David Plante's The Ghost of Henry James. Chronological entries discuss each work's plot, significance for gay identity, and publication history, along with a brief biography of the author.
Author | : Yvonne Wakim Dennis |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1613740174 |
Presents step-by-step instructions for crafts based on Arab American customs along with a brief history of why the craft is important to Arab American culture.
Author | : Reader's Digest Association |
Publisher | : Readers Digest |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780895773517 |
The birds of North America are an endless source of delight to anyone who enjoys nature, and this volume collects over 570 of these remarkable species--every major North American species--in all their beauty. Hundreds of full-color paintings by world-renowned nature artists are coupled with lively, informative commentary.