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Twelve original essays on great American novels
- Title
- Twelve original essays on great American novels / edited by Charles Shapiro.
- Author
- Shapiro, Charles
- Publication
- Detroit : Waynes State University Press, 1958.
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- Additional Authors
- Gold, Herbert, 1924-2023
- Description
- [i-xii] 1-289 [1]p., 1ℓ.; 20.2 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Scruggs.
- Subjects
- American fiction
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 > Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 > Moby Dick
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 > Light in August
- James, Henry, 1843-1916 > Ambassadors
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 > Jennie Gerhardt
- Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 > Great Gatsby
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 > Sun also rises
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 > Scarlet letter
- Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 > Winesburg, Ohio
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 > House of mirth
- Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 > Red badge of courage
- Note
- Bound in green cloth; stamped in gold. Dust jacket.
- From the library of Helen E. Scruggs.
- Contents
- The Deerslayer, a democratic knight of the wilderness, by David Brion Davis.--Five acts of The scarlet letter, by Malcolm Cowley.--A re-reading of Moby Dick, by Granville Hicks.--Wonder for Huckleberry Finn, by George P. Elliott.-- The red badge of courage, by Bernard Weisberger.-- James' Ambassadors, by Richard Chase.-- Edith Wharton's The house of Mirth, by Walter B. Rideout.--Jennie Gerhardt: the American family and the American dream, by Charles Shapiro.--Winesburg, Ohio: the purity and cunning of Sherwood Anderson, by Herbert Gold.--The life of Gatsby, by John W. Aldridge.--The death of love in The sun also rises, by Mark Spilka.--The stillness of Light in August, by Alfred Kazin.
- Call Number
- D-11 5996
- LCCN
- 57013316 /L
- OCLC
- 1916269
- Author
- Shapiro, Charles, ed.
- Title
- Twelve original essays on great American novels / edited by Charles Shapiro.
- Imprint
- Detroit : Waynes State University Press, 1958.
- Added Author
- Gold, Herbert, 1924-2023
- Added Title
- Scruggs.
- Research Call Number
- D-11 5996