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Autore: | Rennison Nick |
Titolo: | 100 must-read American novels / / Nick Rennison, Ed Wood |
Pubblicazione: | London, England : , : A. & C. Black, , 2010 |
©2010 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (188 p.) |
Disciplina: | 813.009 |
Soggetto topico: | American fiction - History and criticism |
Persona (resp. second.): | WoodEd |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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? |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | 100 must-read American novels |
ISBN: | 1-282-96039-3 |
9786612960390 | |
1-4081-3091-2 | |
1-4081-3601-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910785401603321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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