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1) Bret Harte
Author
Publisher
Twayne
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Bret Harte.
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 482
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 363
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Horatio Alger, Jr.
Author
Language
English
Description
The ambitions, dreams, failings, and innermost thoughts of a diverse group of passengers are revealed as they travel aboard a bus along the backroads of California. Set in post-World War II, the story transpires in the course of a single day, opening before dawn in the lunchroom at Rebel Corners and ending after dusk as the bus nears its destination, the fictional town of San Juan de la Cruz.
Series
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Presents literature not as a simple inventory of authors or titles but rather as a historical and cultural field viewed from a wide array of contemporary perspectives. The set, which is "new historicist" in its approach to literary criticism, endorses the notion that not only does history affect literature, but literature itself informs history.
Author
Language
English
Description
A cautionary tale about the rise of fascism in the United States first published in 1935. During the presidential election of 1936, Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, observes with dismay that many of the people he knows support the candidacy of a fascist, Berzelius Windrip. When Windrip wins the election, he forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme Court, and, with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States...