| Description |
351 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Readers guide series
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| Note |
Includes index. |
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Originally published in 1979 by Pan Books under title: An introduction to fifty American novels. |
| Contents |
Charles Brockden Brown -- Wieland (1798) -- James Fenimore Cooper -- The pioneers (1823) -- The last of the Mohicans (1826) -- Edgar Allan Poe -- The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The scarlet letter (1850) -- The house of the seven gables (1851) -- The blithedale romance (1852) -- The marble faun (1860) -- Herman Melville -- Typee (1846) -- Moby Dick (1851) -- Billy Budd (1888-1891?) -- Mark Twain -- The adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) -- The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) -- A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court (1889) -- The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) -- Henry James -- Daisy Miller (1879) -- Washington Square (1881) -- The portrait of a lady (1881) -- The ambassadors (1903) -- William Dean Howells -- A modern instance (1882) -- The rise of Silas Lapham (1885) -- Edith Wharton -- Ethan Frome (1911) -- Stephen Crane -- The red badge of courage (1894) -- Frank Norris -- McTeague (1899) -- Theodore Dresier -- Sister Carrie (1900) -- An American tragedy (1925) -- Jack London -- Martin Eden (1909) -- Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street (1920) -- Babbitt (1922) -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This side of paradise (1920) -- The great Gatsby (1925) -- Tender is the night (1934) -- Ernest Hemingway -- Fiesta (The sun also rises) (1926) -- A farewell to arms (1926) -- From whom the bell tolls (1940) -- The old man and the sea (1952) -- Thomas Wolfe -- Look homeward, angel (1929) -- Jhn Dos Passos -- USA (1937), trilogy consisting of The 42nd parallel (1930), Nineteen Nineteen (1932), and The big money (1936) -- William Faulkner -- The sound and the fury (1929) -- As I lay dying (1930) -- Sanctuary (1931) -- Absolam, Absalom! (1936) -- John Steinbeck -- Of mice and men (1937) -- The grapes of wrath (1939) -- Norman Mailer -- The naked and the dead (1948) -- J.D. Salinger -- The catcher in the rye (1951) -- Ralph Ellison -- Invisible man (1952) -- Saul Bellow -- Herzog (1964). |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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American fiction -- Stories, plots, etc.
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| Added Title |
Introduction to fifty American novels
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| ISBN |
0064953181: £5.50 ($16.50 U.S.) |
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9780064953184 |
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