A survey of American literature from its 16th-centuryu origins to its flourishing present, this sixth edition offers the work of 242 writers - 30 newly included - representing the extraordinary wealth and diversity of American literature.
The best-selling survey of American literature from its beginnings to the present day is now brought to readers in an innovative revision. Here are the classic writers in the American tradition--from Wheatley and Franklin to Poe and Dickinson, to Cather, Hemingway, and Ellison...