1900-1999 (20th century)

Suggestions and activities for teaching History of US in the classroom.

Contains entries on artists, ideas, movements and trends of painting, sculpture and the graphic arts in this century up to the mid 1970s.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about the politics, arts, business, literature, education, journalism, and other aspects of the social, cultural, and economic life of modern China; covering a period that ranges from 1839 to 1997.

The elements of fiction--Early forms of fiction--Moonlight--Clay--The theme of the traitor and the hero--My kinsman, Major Molineux--The purlioned letter-(etc.).

The autumn garden / Lillian Hellman-Camino real / Tennessee Williams-Tea and sympathy / Robert Anderson-A hatful of rain / Michael Bazzo--The zoo story / Edward Albee.

Awake and sing / Clifford Odets-End of summer / S.N. Behrman--Idiot's delight / Robert E. Sherwood--Of mice and men / John Steinbeck--The time of your life / William Saroyan.

Presents essays on 2,000 literary characters from 600 works of 20thcentury literature.

On cover: An informal introduction to the world that shaped the novels of Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, Hardy, Eliot, and Bronte.

This fourth autobiographical work by Maya Angelou tells of her entry into New York's circle of black artists and writers, her involvement in the civil rights movement, and changes in her personal life.