THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE by Nina Baym (Editor) ( 9780393977943 )

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Title:

THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

Volume:

Package 2

By:

Nina Baym (Editor)

Format:

Paperback

List price:	£30.99
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ISBN 10:

0393977943

ISBN 13:

9780393977943

Publisher:

W W NORTON & CO LTD

Pub. date:

28 August, 2002

Edition:

5 Paperbacks

Pages:

2870

Description:

This 6th edition of the "American Literature Anthology" presents complete major works, balancing classic and newly emergent works representing the extraordinary wealth and diversity of American literature.

Synopsis:

A survey of American literature from its 16th-century origins to its flourishing present, this sixth edition offers the work of 242 writers - 30 newly included - representing the extraordinary wealth and diversity of American literature.Among the many works included in their entirety are Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", Thoreau's "Walden", Douglass's "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave", Clemens's "Huckleberry Finn", Chopin's "The Awakening", Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying", "Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire", Larsen's "Quicksand", Ginsberg's "Howl", Mamet's "Glengarry, Glen Ross" and Parks's "The America Play".Informative introductions, headnotes, footnotes and bibliographies accompany the text.

No. of pieces

Illustrations:

Illustrations, 1 col. map

Publication:

Imprint:

W W Norton & Co Ltd

Returns:

Non-returnable

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