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Title:
The American novel
ISBN:
9781438134932
Publication Information:
New York : Facts on File, 2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxvii, 976 p.).
General Note:
Description based on print version record.
Contents:
Absalom, Absalom!, by William Faulkner (1936) -- The adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow (1953) -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (1876) -- The age of innocence, by Edith Wharton (1920) -- All the king's men, by Robert Penn Warren (1946) -- All the pretty horses, by Cormac McCarthy (1992) -- Almanac of the dead, by Leslie Marmon Silko (1991) -- The ambassadors, by Henry James (1903) -- An American tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser (1925) -- As I lay dying, by William Faulkner (1930) -- The assistant, by Bernard Malamud (1957) -- The awakening, by Kate Chopin (1899) -- Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis (1922) -- The ballad of the sad cafe, by Carson McCullers (1951) -- The bear, by William Faulkner (1935, 1942) -- The beet queen, by Louise Erdrich (1986) -- The bell jar, by Sylvia Plath (1963) -- Beloved, by Toni Morrison (1987) -- Benito Cereno, by Herman Melville (1855) -- The big money, by John Dos Passos (1936) -- Billy Budd, sailor, by Herman Melville (1888-1891, 1924) -- Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy (1985) -- The bluest eye, by Toni Morrison (1970) -- The bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder (1927) -- The call of the wild, by Jack London (1903) --

Cane, by Jean Toomer (1923) -- The catcher in the rye, by J.D. Salinger (1951) -- Catch-22, by Joseph Heller (1961) -- Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko (1977) -- The chosen, by Chaim Potok (1967) -- The color purple, by Alice Walker (1982) -- The confidence-man, by Herman Melville (1857) -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court, by Mark Twain (1889) -- The country of the pointed firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett (1896) -- The crying of lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon (1966) -- Daisy Miller, by Henry James (1879) -- Death comes for the archbishop, by Willa Cather (1927) -- A death in the family, by James Agee (1957) -- The deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper (1841) -- Deliverance, by James Dickey (1970) -- The enormous room, by E.E. Cummings (1922) -- Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton (1911) -- Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury (1953) -- A farewell to arms, by Ernest Hemingway (1929) -- The fixer, by Bernard Malamud (1966) -- The 42nd parallel, by John Dos Passos (1930) -- For whom the bell tolls, by Ernest Hemingway (1940) -- Going after Cacciato, by Tim O'Brien (1978) -- The golden bowl, by Henry James (1904) -- Goodbye, Columbus, by Philip Roth (1959) --

The good earth, by Pearl S. Buck (1931) -- Go tell it on the mountain, by James Baldwin (1953) -- The grapes of wrath, by John Steinbeck (1939) -- Gravity's rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon (1973) -- The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) -- The heart is a lonely hunter, by Carson McCullers (1940) -- Herzog, by Saul Bellow (1964) -- Home to Harlem, by Claude McKay (1928) -- House made of dawn, by N. Scott Momaday (1968) -- The house of mirth, by Edith Wharton (1905) -- The house of the seven gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851) -- The house on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros (1984) -- Humboldt's gift, by Saul Bellow (1975) -- I know why the caged bird sings, by Maya Angelou (1969) -- Invisible man, by Ralph Ellison (1952) -- Ironweed, by William Kennedy (1983) -- Jonah's gourd vine, by Zora Neale Hurston (1934) -- The joy luck club, by Amy Tan (1989) -- The jungle, by Upton Sinclair (1906) -- Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper (1826) -- A lesson before dying, by Ernest Gaines (1993) -- Light in August, by William Faulkner (1932) -- Little women, by Louisa May Alcott (1868-1869) -- Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) --

Look homeward, angel, by Thomas Wolfe (1929) -- Love medicine, by Louise Erdrich (1984, 1993) -- Maggie : a girl of the streets, by Stephen Crane (1893) -- Main street, by Sinclair Lewis (1920) -- The Maltese falcon, by Dashiell Hammett (1930) -- The marble faun, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1860) -- McTeague, by Frank Norris (1899) -- Meridian, by Alice Walker (1976) -- Miss Lonelyhearts, by Nathanael West (1933) -- Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville (1851) -- The moviegoer, by Walker Percy (1961) -- My Antonia, by Willa Cather (1918) -- The naked and the dead, by Norman Mailer (1948) -- The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, by Edgar Allen Poe (1838) -- Native son, by Richard Wright (1940) -- The natural, by Bernard Malamud (1952) -- Night, by Elie Wiesel (1960) -- Nineteen nineteen, by John Dos Passos (1932) -- Not without laughter, by Langston Hughes (1930) -- No. 44 : the mysterious stranger, by Mark Twain (1916, 1982) -- Of mice and men, by John Steinbeck (1937) -- The old man and the sea, by Ernest Hemingway (1952) -- One flew over the cuckoo's nest, by Ken Kesey (1962) -- On the road, by Jack Kerouac (1957) -- O pioneers!, by Willa Cather (1913) --

The ox-bow incident, by Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1940) -- Pale fire, by Vladimir Nabokov (1962) -- Pale horse, pale rider, by Katherine Anne Porter (1939) -- Passing, by Nella Larsen (1929) -- The pearl, by John Steinbeck (1947) -- Pnin, by Vladimir Nabokov (1957) -- The poisonwood bible, by Barbara Kingsolver (1998) -- Portnoy's complaint, by Philip Roth (1969) -- The portrait of a lady, by Henry James (1881) -- The prince and the pauper, by Mark Twain (1882) -- The professor's house, by Willa Cather (1925) -- Pudd'nhead Wilson, by Mark Twain (1894) -- Quicksand, by Nella Larsen (1928) -- Rabbit, run, by John Updike (1960) -- Ragtime, by E.L. Doctorow (1975) -- The red badge of courage, by Stephen Crane (1895) -- The rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells (1885) -- The road, by Cormac McCarthy (2006) -- Sabbath's theater, by Philip Roth (1995) -- The salt eaters, by Toni Cade Bambara (1980) -- The scarlet letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) -- The sea-wolf, by Jack London (1904) -- Seize the day, by Saul Bellow (1956) -- A separate peace, by John Knowles (1960) -- Ship of fools, by Katherine Anne Porter (1962) -- Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser (1900) -- Slaughterhouse-five, by Kurt Vonnegut (1969) --

Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison (1977) -- Sophie's choice, by William Styron (1979) -- The sound and the fury, by William Faulkner (1929) -- Sula, by Toni Morrison (1973) -- The sun alson rises, by Ernest Hemingway (1926) -- Tender is the night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934) -- Their eyes were watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) -- The things they carried, by Tim O'Brien (1990) -- This side of paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920) -- To kill a mockingbird, by Harper Lee (1960) -- Tracks, by Louise Erdrich (1988) -- Tripmaster monkey : his fake book, by Maxine Hong Kingston (1989) -- The turn of the screw, by Henry James (1898) -- Typee, by Herman Melville (1846) -- Uncle Tom's cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1851, 1852) -- The unvanquished, by William Faulkner (1938) -- The wapshot chronicle, by John Cheever (1957) -- Washington Square, by Henry James (1881) -- White noise, by Don DeLillo (1985) -- Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson (1919) -- The wings of the dove, by Henry James (1902) -- Wise blood, by Flannery O'Connor (1952) -- The woman warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston (1976).
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Summary:
Helps students better understand and appreciate literature through a close examination of great short passages in classic works, offering interpretations of selected passages from great American novels.
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