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Four Great American Classics
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Author : Herman Melville
language : en
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Release Date : 2008-05-20
Four Great American Classics written by Herman Melville and has been published by Bantam Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-20 with Fiction categories.
These four landmark novels of nineteenth-century American literature have gained a permanent place in our culture as great classics. They are not only part of our national heritage, but masterpieces of world literature whose deep and lasting influence is felt to this day. The Scarlet Letter vividly records America’s moral and historical roots in Puritan New England and masterfully re-creates a society’s preoccupation with sin, guilt, and pride. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn carries readers along on Huck’s unforgettable journey down the Mississippi in America’s foremost comic epic—the first great novel in a truly American voice. The Red Badge of Courage re-creates the brutal reality of war and its psychological impact on a young Civil War soldier in one of the most moving and widely read American novels. Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories joins the world’s great tragic literature as a doomed seaman becomes the innocent victim of a clash between social authority and individual freedom.
Four Great American Classics
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Author : Stephen Crane
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback
Release Date : 1986-01-01
Four Great American Classics written by Stephen Crane and has been published by Turtleback this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Presents four classic American stories, "The Scarlett Letter," "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," "The Red Badge of Courage," and "Billy Budd, sailor."
Four Great American Novels
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Author : Raymond Wright Short
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946
Four Great American Novels written by Raymond Wright Short and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with categories.
Four Classic American Novels
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Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2001
Four Classic American Novels written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.
The Dream Of The Great American Novel
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Author : Lawrence Buell
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2014-02-10
The Dream Of The Great American Novel written by Lawrence Buell and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
The idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or obsolete. In this landmark book, the first in many years to take in the whole sweep of national fiction, Lawrence Buell reanimates this supposedly antiquated idea, demonstrating that its history is a key to the dynamics of national literature and national identity itself. The dream of the G.A.N., as Henry James nicknamed it, crystallized soon after the Civil War. In fresh, in-depth readings of selected contenders from the 1850s onward in conversation with hundreds of other novels, Buell delineates four "scripts" for G.A.N. candidates. One, illustrated by The Scarlet Letter, is the adaptation of the novel's story-line by later writers, often in ways that are contrary to the original author's own design. Other aspirants, including The Great Gatsby and Invisible Man, engage the American Dream of remarkable transformation from humble origins. A third script, seen in Uncle Tom's Cabin and Beloved, is the family saga that grapples with racial and other social divisions. Finally,mega-novels from Moby-Dick to Gravity's Rainbow feature assemblages of characters who dramatize in microcosm the promise and pitfalls of democracy. The canvas of the great American novel is in constant motion, reflecting revolutions in fictional fashion, the changing face of authorship, and the inseparability of high culture from popular. As Buell reveals, the elusive G.A.N. showcases the myth of the United States as a nation perpetually under construction.
The Great American Read The Book Of Books
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Author : PBS
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-08-21
The Great American Read The Book Of Books written by PBS and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-21 with Literary Collections categories.
A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100 best-loved novels, determined by a rigorous national survey. Subsequent episodes will air in September and October. Celebrities and everyday Americans will champion their favorite novel and in the finale in late October, America's #1 best-loved novel will be revealed. The Great American Read: The Book of Books will present all 100 novels with fascinating information about each book, author profiles, a snapshot of the novel's social relevance, film or television adaptations, other books and writings by the author, and little-known facts. Also included are themed articles about banned books, the most influential book illustrators, reading recommendations, the best first-lines in literature, and more. Beautifully designed with rare images of the original manuscripts, first-edition covers, rejection letters, and other ephemera, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is a must-have book for all booklovers.
Great Writers Of The English Language
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Author : GREAT.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Great Writers Of The English Language written by GREAT. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with American literature categories.
An illustrated overview of the life and works of a selected number of important writers in the English language from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
The Great American Novel
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Author : Philip Roth
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2022-09-21
The Great American Novel written by Philip Roth and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-21 with Fiction categories.
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral—a richly imagined novel featuring America’s only homeless big-league baseball team in history delivers “shameless comic extravagance…. Roth gleefully exploits our readiness to let baseball stand for America itself" (The New York Times). Gil Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpire. The ex-con first baseman, John Baal, "The Babe Ruth of the Big House," who never hit a home run sober. If you've never heard of them—or of the homeless baseball team the Ruppert Mundys—it's because of the Communist plot, and the capitalist scandal, that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory. In this ribald, wickedly satiric novel, Roth turns baseball's status as national pastime and myth into an occasion for unfettered picaresque farce, replete with heroism and perfidy, ebullient wordplay and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee.
American Science Fiction Four Classic Novels 1960 1966 Loa 321
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Author : Poul Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Library of America
Release Date : 2019-11-05
American Science Fiction Four Classic Novels 1960 1966 Loa 321 written by Poul Anderson and has been published by Library of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-05 with Fiction categories.
In a deluxe collector's edition hardcover, four classic novels from science fiction's most transformative decade, including the landmark Flowers for Algernon This volume, the first of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, opens with Poul Anderson's immensely popular The High Crusade, in which aliens planning to conquer Earth land in Lincolnshire during the Hundred Years' War. In Clifford Simak's Hugo Award-winning Way Station, Enoch Wallace is a spry 124-year-old Civil War veteran whose lifelong job monitoring the intergalactic pit stop inside his home is largely uneventful--until a CIA agent shows up and Cold War hostilities threaten the peaceful harmony of the Galactic confederation. Daniel Keyes's beloved Flowers for Algernon, winner of the Nebula Award and adapted as the Academy Award-winning movie Charly, is told through the journal entries of Charlie Gordon, a young man with severe learning disabilities who is the test subject for surgery to improve his intelligence. And in the postapocalyptic earthscape of Roger Zelazny's Hugo Award-winning . . . And Call Me Conrad (also published as This Immortal) Conrad Nomikos reluctantly accepts the responsibility of showing the planet to the governing extraterrestrials' representative and protecting him from rebellious remnants of the human race. Using early manuscripts and original setting copy, this Library of America volume restores the novel to a version that most closely approximates Zelazny's original text.
The Philip K Dick Reader
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Author : Philip K. Dick
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2016-01-26
The Philip K Dick Reader written by Philip K. Dick and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-26 with Fiction categories.
Includes the stories that inspired the movies Total Recall, Screamers, Minority Report, Paycheck, and Next “More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people’s minds.” —The Wall Street Journal The Philip K. Dick Reader Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick’s works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works. Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for the best novel of 1963 for The Man in the High Castle. In the last year of his life, the film Blade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? This collection includes some of Dick’s earliest short and medium-length fiction, including We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (the story that inspired the motion picture Total Recall), Second Variety (which inspired the motion picture Screamers), Paycheck, The Minority Report, and twenty more.