Harper American Literature, Single Volume Edition

by Robert Atwan

Book Overview

Beginning with Native American and pre-colonial narratives, and with an emphasis on whole works, this edition offers a range of authors and selections representative of America's diverse literary... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321012690
• ISBN13: 9780321012692
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 3000 Pages
• Weight: 4.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 6.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Get out your reading glasses!

This anthology was bought for a college class I took at U of P. It is well written, the biography of each author is included prior to each selection. Before each new era of American literature there is a "historical" piece. My only camplaint was the font was too small (for my 40 year old eyes) and the pages too thin, so it was hard to use a highlighter other than yellow otherwise it bled through.

Had to buy it for school...

I had to buy this book for school and I'm glad I did. I couldn't possibly do a better review than Mr. Mazza's so I won't even try. He is correct in every aspect so I'll leave it at that except to add that even after being done with the class I'm still enjoying the book!

very satisfied

I'm overall very satisfied with this purchase. I received a shipping confirmation from the seller, received it promptly after ordering, and the book was in good condition.

I've taught using this book

This is a nice collection for the 21st century, including lots of new voices while still maintaining enough of the canon for a good survey course. It's a big, heavy book (for a paperback) that might have been easier to read in two volumes, but as far as content goes, this one has Norton's beat by miles.

I've used textbooks before...

but this is undoubtedly the best Anthology of American Literature available, if only because of the sheer variety and bulk of literature contained in it. As an added plus, there's background information on every author contained in the book. The writing varies from Columbus's diaries to late 20th century poetry, so there's something to interest everyone. All in all, it's a wonderful buy for the price.