Author: Gordon Hutner
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807832278
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Despite the vigorous study of modern American fiction, today's readers are only familiar with a partial shelf of a vast library. Gordon Hutner describes the distorted, canonized history of the twentieth-century American novel as a record of modern classic
What America Read
Author: Gordon Hutner
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807832278
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Despite the vigorous study of modern American fiction, today's readers are only familiar with a partial shelf of a vast library. Gordon Hutner describes the distorted, canonized history of the twentieth-century American novel as a record of modern classic
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807832278
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Despite the vigorous study of modern American fiction, today's readers are only familiar with a partial shelf of a vast library. Gordon Hutner describes the distorted, canonized history of the twentieth-century American novel as a record of modern classic
The Great American Read: The Book of Books
Author: PBS
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 9780316417556
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100 best-loved novels, determined by a rigorous national survey. Subsequent episodes will air in September and October. Celebrities and everyday Americans will champion their favorite novel and in the finale in late October, America's #1 best-loved novel will be revealed. The Great American Read: The Book of Books will present all 100 novels with fascinating information about each book, author profiles, a snapshot of the novel's social relevance, film or television adaptations, other books and writings by the author, and little-known facts. Also included are themed articles about banned books, the most influential book illustrators, reading recommendations, the best first-lines in literature, and more. Beautifully designed with rare images of the original manuscripts, first-edition covers, rejection letters, and other ephemera, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is a must-have book for all booklovers.
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 9780316417556
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100 best-loved novels, determined by a rigorous national survey. Subsequent episodes will air in September and October. Celebrities and everyday Americans will champion their favorite novel and in the finale in late October, America's #1 best-loved novel will be revealed. The Great American Read: The Book of Books will present all 100 novels with fascinating information about each book, author profiles, a snapshot of the novel's social relevance, film or television adaptations, other books and writings by the author, and little-known facts. Also included are themed articles about banned books, the most influential book illustrators, reading recommendations, the best first-lines in literature, and more. Beautifully designed with rare images of the original manuscripts, first-edition covers, rejection letters, and other ephemera, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is a must-have book for all booklovers.
What America Read
Author: Gordon Hutner
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807872123
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920-1960
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807872123
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920-1960
The Book of Books
Author: Jessica Allen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316485562
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"The Great American Read: The book of books celebrates America's 100 best-loved novels--the books whose ideas, characters, and themes have shaped our country and reflect it back to us. This companion volume to PBS's series The Great American Read profiles the books, their authors, and their impact on our culture, as well as the little-known stories about how they came to be..."--Dust jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316485562
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"The Great American Read: The book of books celebrates America's 100 best-loved novels--the books whose ideas, characters, and themes have shaped our country and reflect it back to us. This companion volume to PBS's series The Great American Read profiles the books, their authors, and their impact on our culture, as well as the little-known stories about how they came to be..."--Dust jacket.
America and the World War
Author: T. Roosevelt
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781543192131
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
America and the World War by T. Roosevelt. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say", without any doubt this book can be considered a Classic This book is also a Bestseller because as Steinberg defined: "a bestseller as a book for which demand, within a short time of that book's initial publication, vastly exceeds what is then considered to be big sales".
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781543192131
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
America and the World War by T. Roosevelt. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say", without any doubt this book can be considered a Classic This book is also a Bestseller because as Steinberg defined: "a bestseller as a book for which demand, within a short time of that book's initial publication, vastly exceeds what is then considered to be big sales".
New York Libraries
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Challenging Essays in Modern Thought
Author: Joseph Morris Bachelor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The American Commonwealth
Author: James Bryce Bryce (Viscount)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
Die Vegetation der Erde: Phytogeographic survey of North America. A consideration of the phytogeography of the North American continent, including Mexico, Central America and the West Indies, together with the evolution of North American plant distribution
Author: Adolf Engler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phytogeography
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phytogeography
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description