Presents a biography of American author Lorraine Hansberry, and features a selection of articles that examine the context, themes, characters, and productions of her play, "A Raisin in the Sun.".
Contains critical articles that analyze literary works from the Elizabethan era and describe the social, philosophical, and political trends that influenced Elizabethan writers.
A resource on twentieth-century African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston's short story "Sweat" that includes a Hurston chronology, background texts by Hurston and others, six critical essays, and a selected bibliography.
An anthology of critical essays that provide a wide range of information and opinion about the early eighteenth-century novel "Gulliver's Travels, " and its author Jonathan Swift.
An anthology of critical essays that provide a wide range of information and opinion about the twentieth-century novel "Farewell to Arms, " and its author Ernest Hemingway.
An anthology of critical essays that provide a wide range of information and opinion about the autobiographical novel "Black Boy, " and its author, Richard Wright.