american literature

Presents a selection of fairy tales, short stories, poems, essays, novel excerpts, and other writings by women authors, grouped by theme, with biographical introductions, and vocabulary notes.

Presents a collection of writings on dogs, including magazine articles, book chapters, essays, and poems, featuring selections by Peter Mayle, Mark Twain, Jack London, T. H. White, and others.

An anthology of writings by African-Americans covering all genres, dating from the pre-Colonial era through today's best and most well-known writers.

A collection of over 900 biographies of influential novelists, poets, and dramatists who make up the core of America's literary history; includes a section on important novels, plays, poems, and works of non-fiction; contains lists of persons, groups, and periodicals that shaped the character of American literature.

Presents one hundred twenty-two alphabetically-arranged essays in a three-volume set that features major Latino novelists, poets, playwrights, and short-story writers, and contains brief profiles, the author's nationality and major genre, and summary of the author's literary career.

An introduction to Arthur Miller's play, "The Crucible, " discussing the author's life, the impact of the play, its plot, cast of characters, literary criticism, and pertinence for today's audiences.

Presents forty-five poems and excerpts of literature about New York City, accompanied by paintings and photographs of the city's many sides; includes works by Willa Cather, Truman Capote, Margaret Fuller, Langston Hughes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, Toni Morrison, Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, and many others.

Profiles eight women writers from the first half of the twentieth century, with biographical information and a chronology of each author's life, a listing of her works, and references for further study.