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Author Foster, Thomas C.

Title Twenty-five books that shaped America : how white whales, green lights, and restless spirits forged our national identity / Thomas C. Foster.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Harper, 2011.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  810.9 F817    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  810.9 FOS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  810.9 F81    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  028.9 FOSTER    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  028.9 FOS    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xxi, 323 pages ; 21 cm
Contents Maybe just a little made-up: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -- A man, a plan, a flintlock: The last of the Mohicans -- The allegory man cometh: The scarlet letter -- Gotta get back to the pond and set my soul free: Walden -- I've been workin' on the whale-road: Moby Dick -- The good gray poet, my eye!: Leaves of grass -- Girls gone mild: Little women -- About a boy--and a raft: The adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Twofer: A boy's will and North of Boston -- In praise of prairie: My Ántonia -- A whole heap of ashes: The great Gatsby -- Life is a carnival: The sun also rises -- It takes a weary man to sing a weary song: The weary blues -- The bird is the word: The Maltese falcon -- So big: U.S.A. -- The winepress of injustice: The grapes of wrath -- Like a hurricane: Their eyes were watching God -- He ain't heavy, he's my cousin: Go down, Moses -- American Candide: The adventures of Augie March -- Me and my shadow: On the road -- When reading got good: The cat in the hat -- Walk a mile in my shoes: To kill a mockingbird -- Not in Kansas anymore: The crying of Lot 49 -- Race, relations: Song of Solomon -- Home, home on the res: Love medicine.
Subject American literature -- Bibliography.
American literature -- History and criticism.
United States -- Social life and customs.
ISBN 9780061834400: $14.99
0061834408
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