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Library of America volume 14
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Distributed by the Viking Press
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English
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The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gift for everyone.
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English
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A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Steinbeck's brilliant short novels
Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels. From the tale of commitment, loneliness and hope in Of Mice and Men, to the tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society in Cannery Row, to The Pearl's examination of the fallacy of the American dream, Steinbeck stories of...
Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels. From the tale of commitment, loneliness and hope in Of Mice and Men, to the tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society in Cannery Row, to The Pearl's examination of the fallacy of the American dream, Steinbeck stories of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Life continues much the same in the Cannery Row district of Monterey, California, following World War II--with the exception that there are no more fish to can, and Doc discovers the missing ingredient in his life is love.
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Volume 1 includes poetry, short stories, letters, and prose by Christopher Columbus, Bartolome de las Casas, Hernan Cortes, Bernal Diaz de Castillo, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Arthur Barlowe, Thomas Harriot, John White, Samuel de Champlain, George Percy, John Smith, William Bradford, Thomas Morton, John Winthrop, Roger Williams, Anne Bradstreet, Michael Wigglesworth, Mary Rowlandson, Edward Taylor, Samuel Sewall, Cotton Mather, Sarah Kemble Knight,...
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English
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For the sixth edition, James D. Hart and Phillip Leininger have updated the Companion in light of what has happened in American literature since 1982. To this end, they have revised the entries on such established authors as Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Joyce Carol Oates, and they have added more than 180 new entries on novelists (T. Coraghessan Boyle, Tim O'Brien, Louise Erdrich, Don De Lillo), poets (Rita Dove, Weldon Kees), playwrights (Wendy...
Publisher
Facts On File
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and critical information about American authors from 1946 to the present, as well as information on key works and topics that influenced American literature during the time.
14) The meadow
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English
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In a blending of fiction and fact, the author presents the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado/Wyoming border area. He describes the seasons, the weather, the wildlife, and the few people who struggle to survive on the family ranch that encompasses the meadow.
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