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UNINA9910460332903321 |
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Autore |
Rennison Nick |
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Titolo |
100 must-read American novels / / Nick Rennison, Ed Wood |
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London, England : , : A. & C. Black, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-96039-3 |
9786612960390 |
1-4081-3091-2 |
1-4081-3601-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (188 p.) |
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Collana |
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Bloomsbury Good Reading Guides |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American fiction - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About This Book; Introduction; A-Z of Entries; Altered States (Drink and Drugs); Short Stories; Down These Mean Streets (The American Detective); The American Civil War; Future Americas and Alternative Americas; Small Town America; The Jewish Experience; The West; New York through the Decades; Up from Slavery (African-American fiction); Deep South; Hooray for Hollywood? |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Which 100 novels represent the finest American literature ever produced? Let this book be your guide. Ordered A-Z by author this latest title in the popular Must-Read series provides a rich resource for your reading. It features 100 titles from 19th century classics: Melville's Moby Dick and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, to the 1920s generation: Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner, the Beat generation (Kerouac's On the Road) to the major writers of today: Toni Morrison (Beloved) Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay), Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections), D |
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