A New Literary History of America, Paperback

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Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. The fully r...

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Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award``A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation.`` -Wall Stre...

Here is a wonderfully imagined picture of a little known period in American musical history. In 1892, at the height of his prodigious powers, Anton...

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Description Monsters arrived in 2011--and now they are back. Not only do they continue to live in our midst, but, as historian Scott Poole shows, t...

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DescriptionA lost literary relic of the First World War, Common Cause tells the story of Jeremy Robson, a crusading newspaper editor in the fiction...

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Contributor(s): Author: Jean-Pierre TorrellTranslator: Benedict M. GuevinIn this concise new volume by the acclaimed author of the biography of Sai...

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As one of the earliest literary forms of colonial America, the Indian captivity narrative is important not only in the history of American letters ...

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Continuing in the vein of his ever questioning the conventions of race melodrama through the lens of which so much American racial and cultural his...

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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American...

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This book unravels the ethnic history of California since the late nineteenth-century Anglo-American conquest and the institutionalization of "whit...

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David Lurie learns that all beginnings are hard. He must fight for his place against the bullies in his Depression-shadowed Bronx neighborhood and ...

A wonderful new collection of Henry James's short stories about Americans in Europe Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's great heroines: a young, i...

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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Whitman's Leaves of Grass, a novel of poems that has become a c...

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No ancient poet has a wider following today than Sappho; her status as the most famous woman poet from Greco-Roman antiquity, and as one of the mos...

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Set in Macedonia at the beginning of the twentieth century, the novel Infidelity draws on myth and history to tell an unusual story of star-crossed...