American Writers Classics, Volume 1

American Writers Classics, Volume 1
By Jay Parini
Number Of Pages: 408
Publication Date: 2001-11-15
ISBN-10: 0684312484
ISBN-13: 9780684312484

American Writers Classics, Volume I is the first volume in a series that represents a further development of the American Writers - A Collection of Literary Biographies.
American Writers Classics provide substantial articles that focus on a single masterwork of American literature, whether it be a novel, a sequence of stories, a play, a long poem or sequence of poems, or a major work of autobiography or nonfiction. The idea behind the series is simple: to provide close readings of landmark works. These readings, written by well-known authors and professors of literature, will in each case examine the text itself, explaining its internal dynamics, and consider the cultural, biographical, and historical dimensions of the work.

List of Subjects:

THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain
BELOVED by Toni Morrison
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J. D. Salinger
DEATH OF A SALESMAN by Arthur Miller
"HOWL" by Allen Ginsberg
LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT by Eugene O'Neill
MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
MY ÁNTONIA by Willa Gather
MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM by Frederick Douglass
ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY by Henry James
RABBIT, RUN by John Updike
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE by Stephen Crane
THE SCARLET LETTER by Nathaniel Hawthorne
THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK by W. E. B. Du Bois
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE by Tennessee Williams
THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
TALES OF THE GROTESQUE AND ARABESQUE by Edgar Allan Poe
THE WASTE LAND by T S. Eliot