Concise Anthology of American Literature
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Book Overview
Includes the writings of such individuals as Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Gertrude Stein, Arthur Miller, James Baldwin, and Gloria Naylor. This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0133732916
ISBN13:9780133732917
Release Date:December 1997
Publisher:Prentice Hall
Length:2388 Pages
Weight:4.15 lbs.
Dimensions:2.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Good for College
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
This book definitely delivers what it promises. There are a number of key short stories, poems and other piece of work from some of the most influential authors in American history. It also includes background information of a given period in time, as well as introductions on each author. There are also key terms or phrases explained within the text, since some portions of a given work of literature may be confusing using today's language.
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I needed this book for American Literature....i bought the book new...it arrived in perfect condition....received in 5 days.
A pretty good anthology
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Let's face it, most people won't be buying this volume by choice--they'll buy it for a class. Still, it's good to know what you're getting into. This is a pretty good anthology of American literature, starting all the way back with Native American myths and Columbus's journals and continuing through Puritan, Enlightenment, Transcendentalist, Romantic, and modern periods of literature in America.The introductions to the pieces are good--as good or better than Norton's--and the selections themselves are generally good. Still, though, there are a few notable things missing, but that is to be expected in any compendium, I suppose. One of the highlights of this volume is the full reprints of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. If you have to buy this book, it should be useful and may even be worth keeping around after the class is over. I know I'm going to keep mine.
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