The American Classics
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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 American Classics
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Author : Denis Donoghue
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-01
The American Classics written by Denis Donoghue and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
How is a classic book to be defined? How much time must elapse before a work may be judged a “classic”? And among all the works of American literature, which deserve the designation? In this provocative new book Denis Donoghue essays to answer these questions. He presents his own short list of “relative” classics--works whose appeal may not be universal but which nonetheless have occupied an important place in our culture for more than a century. These books have survived the abuses of time—neglect, contempt, indifference, willful readings, excesses of praise, and hyperbole. Donoghue bestows the term classic on just five American works: Melville’s Moby-Dick, Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Thoreau’s Walden, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, and Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Examining each in a separate chapter, he discusses how the writings have been received and interpreted, and he offers his own contemporary readings, suggesting, for example, that in the post–9/11 era, Moby-Dick may be rewardingly read as a revenge tragedy. Donoghue extends an irresistible invitation to open the pages of these American classics again, demonstrating with wit and acuity how very much they have to say to us now.
Writing The American Classics
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Author : James Barbour
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Writing The American Classics written by James Barbour and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of essays describes the genesis of ten classic works of American literature. Using biographical, cultural, and manuscript evidence, the contributors tell the "stories of stories," plotting the often curious and always interesting ways in which notable American books took shape in a writer's mind. The genetic approach taken in these essays derives from a curiosity, and sometimes a feeling of awe, about how a work of literature came to exist -- what motivated its creation, informed its vision, urged its completion. It is just that sort of wonder that first brings some people to love writers and their books. Originally published in 1990. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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.
American Classics
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Author : George M. Thomson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
American Classics written by George M. Thomson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with categories.
American Classics Collection
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
American Classics Collection written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
Early African American Classics
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Author : Anthony Appiah
language : en
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Release Date : 2008-05-20
Early African American Classics written by Anthony Appiah 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.
This essential one-volume collection brings together some of the most influential and significant works by African-American writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Included herein are such classics as Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) and excerpts from W.E.B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Harriet A. Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself (1861), Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery (1901), and James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (1912). Whether read as records of African-American history, autobiography, or literature, these invaluable texts stand as timeless monuments to the courage, intellect, and dignity of those for whom writing itself was an act of rebellion—and whose voices and experiences would have otherwise been silenced forever. Edited and with an introduction by Anthony Appiah, who explains the distinctive American literary and cultural context of the time, this edition of Early African-American Classics remains the standard by which all similar collections will inevitably be compared.
American Classic
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Author : Sly Terry /Sunsum Savage
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-08-18
American Classic written by Sly Terry /Sunsum Savage and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-18 with categories.
Traditionally, American Classics are meant to capture the American experience. However, growing up it never seemed like American Classics ever captured my world. That is why I decided to write one myself. This book is a book of thought, progression, Hope, and what it truly means to me to be an American! Each chapter looks at how I see the world and what America has been like to me but also what it could have the potential to be!
The Catcher In The Rye
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Author : J. D. Salinger
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-08-13
The Catcher In The Rye written by J. D. Salinger and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-13 with Fiction categories.
'If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.' The first of J. D. Salinger's four books to be published, The Catcher in the Rye is one of the most widely read and beloved of all contemporary American novels. 'The handbook of the adolescent heart' The New Yorker
The American Classics Revisited
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Author : Devarakonda Ramakrishna
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The American Classics Revisited written by Devarakonda Ramakrishna and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with American literature categories.