american literature

Introduces Native American authors and provides a glimpse into their culture, historical perspective, and world-view.

Presents nearly fifty stories, poems, songs, essays, and letters that celebrate nature in North America's Midwestern prairie, including works by such figures as Willa Cather, Carl Sandburg, and Georgia O'Keeffe.

Ring Lardner remains one of the best baseball writers. Both characters and their counterparts have entries, as do the plots and details of some 35 stories devoted to baseball. But Lardner was more versatile, writing 92 hard-to-categorize non-baseball stories, focusing on athletes, writers, theatrical people, musicians, soldiers, embarrassed husbands, and puzzling wives.