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Suggested Books
The following is a selection from our catalog.
Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Call Number: 818.2 Ir8ℓISBN: 9780140437690Publication Date:When Washington Irving’s Sketch Book first appeared in , readers in America and abroad greeted it with enthusiasm, and Irving emerged as America’s first successful professional author.
Major Writers of Early American Literature by Call Number: 810.9 Em33mISBN: 9780299061944Publication Date:Major Writers of Early American Literature provides a fresh appraisal of the most important authors of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America.
The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature by Call Number: 820.9 K1394pISBN: 1596980117Publication Date:Citing declining coverage of classic English and American literature in today’s schools, a primer challenges popular misconceptions while introducing the works of core masters such as Shakespeare, Faulkner, and Austen.
The Puritan Tradition in America, – by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780585255217Publication Date:Many students of our national character would agree that, for better or worse, the Puritan tradition had an enormous effect on the assumptions and aspirations of today's Americans. This book tells the story, largely through the participants’ own words, of the emergence of that tradition.
Reading Columbus by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780520913943Publication Date:Christopher Columbus authored over a hundred documents, many of them letters giving testimony on the Discovery to Isabela and Ferdinand. In this first book in English to focus specifically on these writings, Margarita Zamora offers an original analysis of their textual problems and ideological implications.
Walt Whitman by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780198038054Publication Date:Now, in this brief but bountiful volume, David S. Reynolds offers a wealth of insight into the life and work of Whitman, examining the author through the lens of nineteenth-century America. … Solidly grounded in historical and biographical facts, and exceptionally wide-ranging in the themes it treats, Walt Whitman packs a dazzling amount of insight into a compact volume.
