Provides a comprehensive reference to the novel in American literature with over 900 entries containing critical analyses and synopses of individual novels, novelist biographies, essays on fiction genres, and more.
Geoff Hamilton, Brian Jones. The Spike Mills on a book entitled Wokini: A Lakotan Journey to Happiness and ... Mills, Billy, and Nicholas Sparks. Wokini: Your Personal Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding. Quiney Calif.
(Re)valuing Cummings:Further Essays on the Poet, 1962–1993. Gainesville: UniversityPress of Florida, 1996. Kennedy,Richard S. E.E. Cummings Revisited. NewYork: Twayne, 1994. Entry Author: Anderson, George P., Judith S. Baughman, ...
Other of O.'s critically noteworthy works include “ The Lost Room ” ( 1858 ) , “ The Wondersmith " ( 1859 ) , and his only novella From Hand to Mouth ( 1858 ) . Like his other tales , these works utilize elements of the grotesque ...
1994) American short story writer, novelist Born in Trenton, Tennessee, on January 8, 1917, Peter Taylor was a uniquely southern fiction writer who did not spend any of his formative yearsin the South. His family movedto St. Louis when ...
"Incorporates authors' name, biographies, and titles of their works in one alphabetical listing. Plot summaries also included. Covers U.S. and Canadian literature."--
See Burroughs, William S. Leeds, Titan, 2:59 Lee in the Mountains and Other Poems (Davidson), 2:90 Lee Yan Phou, 1:72 Left Out in the Rain (Snyder), 4:64 “Legacy ofJohn Brown, The” (Du Bois), 1:423 “Legacy of the Ancestral Arts, ...
Fourth, while most of the earliest African American novelists primarily addressed their social message to white audiences, their work at the same time contributed to the formation of a collective African American identity in the U.S. ...
O. Henry Westerns. Edited by Patrick Thornhill. London: Methuen, 1961. ———. Options. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1909. ———. The Pocket Book of O. Henry Stories. Edited by Harry Hansen. New York: Pocket Books, 1948. ———.
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel, appeared in 1995 and ... His activist drama—including the 1932 Scottsboro Limited—has been collected in The Political Plays of Langston Hughes (2000).
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