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Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Book Club Associates. Hardback.prev owners name inside Comprising over 750 entries in a single alphabetical sequence, this book offers a compact and accessible guide to the major landmarks of American literature from colonial times to the present day. Entireds on 500 separate authors, from Henry Adams to Louis Zukofsky, from Cotton Mather to Norman Mailer, give a full account of the subject's literary career. Entries on individual works - on major novels, plays, and volumes of poetry, from Absalom, Absalom! to The Zoo Story, from Moby Dick to Catch 22, provide publication details and convenient plot summaries. There are entries also on the principal literary magazines past and pr5esent, and on literary movements as diverse as Transcendentalism and the Beats. There are helpful guides to further reading and chronological tables of American history and literature. Containing a wealth of authoritiative, clearly presented information on the whole range of the American literary heritage, this book is an invaluable reference qwork for the student and general reader alike. 286 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Book Club Associates. Hardback. Slightly sunned spine to D/J. Comprising over 750 entries in a single alphabetical sequence, this book offers a compact and accessible guide to the major landmarks of American literature from colonial times to the present day. Entireds on 500 separate authors, from Henry Adams to Louis Zukofsky, from Cotton Mather to Norman Mailer, give a full account of the subject's literary career. Entries on individual works - on major novels, plays, and volumes of poetry, from Absalom, Absalom! to The Zoo Story, from Moby Dick to Catch 22, provide publication details and convenient plot summaries. There are entries also on the principal literary magazines past and pr5esent, and on literary movements as diverse as Transcendentalism and the Beats. There are helpful guides to further reading and chronological tables of American history and literature. Containing a wealth of authoritiative, clearly presented information on the whole range of the American literary heritage, this book is an invaluable reference qwork for the student and general reader alike. 286 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…