autobiographical fiction, american

A narrative portrait of the author of the Little House series details her real life as a young pioneer traveling west with her family and homesteading on new territories, revealing how her actual life differed from the adventures in her books.

A guide to understanding the writings of Leon Uris that explores the plots, themes, and characters in his novels and discusses the issues he raises in his examination of good and evil in the context of contemporary history.

A collection of short stories and vignettes by Earnest Hemmingway, first published in 1925, marking his American debut.

Literary Masterpieces is one series of the trio that makes up the Gale Study Guides to Great Literature (the others are Literary Topics and Literary Masters). Each Literary Masterpieces volume chooses a book by one of the authors covered in Literary Masters and offers a discussion of themes, characters, comparisons with social events of the era when the book was written and a critical analysis. Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life, was published in 1929, and was Thomas Wolfe's first book. The novel recounts the physical, mental, and emotional life of Eugene Gant, the autobiographical protagonist, through the first twenty years of his life.

Contains the texts of three novels by nineteenth-century American author Louisa May Alcott, including "Little Women," "Little Men," and "Jo's Boys.".

Presents ten critical essays published between 1973 and 2001 on Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by Harold Bloom.

A collection of short stories and vignettes by Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1925, marking his American debut.