Concise Anthology of American Literature - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0133732916 ISBN 13: 9780133732917

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1997

Synopsis

Includes the writings of such individuals as Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Gertrude Stein, Arthur Miller, James Baldwin, and Gloria Naylor

About this title

From the Publisher:

This Anthology contains selections from Volumes I and II of the Anthology of American Liteature, Fifth Edition. Some long Works have been excerpted for inclusion in the Concise Anthology. They include Franklin's Autobiography, Thoreau's Walden, and Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. The following selections are included in the Concise Anthology but not in the two-volume set: "The Jolly Corner" by Henry James, "Neg Creol" by Kate Chopin, "The Blue Hotel" by Stephen Crane, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee.

From the Back Cover:

The Concise Anthology of American Literature, Fourth Edition containsselections from Volumes I and II of the Anthology of AmericanLiterature, Sixth Edition. Carefully selected readings introduce thereaders to America's literary heritage, from the colonial times ofWilliam Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of SaulBellow and Toni Morrison. Appropriate for readers interested in American Literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0133732916
• ISBN 13: 9780133732917
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 2388
• Editor: McMichael George L., Crews Frederick, Levenson J. C., Marx Leo, Smith David E.