american literature

A young Bostonian gentleman is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.

Includes The Tell Tale Heart, Fall of the House of Usher, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Purloined Letter, Gold Bug, Pit and the Pendulum, "Raven", "Lenore", and many more.

Collects 367 alphabetically arranged essays, from A-Dre, that discuss the works of over one hundred African-American authors from the eighteenth through the early twenty-first century, covering genres and individual works by poets, novelists, playwrights, historians, critics, essayists, and orators.