The United States in Literature
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Author
- James Edwin Miller
- Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer
- Kerry M. Wood
- John Smith
- William Bradford
- Sarah Kemble Knight
- William Byrd II
- Mather, Cotton
- Jonathan Edwards
- Anne Bradstreet
- Taylor, Edward
- Phillis Wheatley
- Philip Morin Freneau
- Benjamin Franklin
- J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Paine
- Irving, Washington
- Cooper, James Fenimore
- William Cullen Bryant
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- James Russell Lowell
- James W. C. Pennington
- Francis Wright
- Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Edward Rowe Snow
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Seattle Chief
- Fuller, Margaret
- Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Louisa May Alcott
- Douglass, Frederick
- Abraham Lincoln
- Robert E. Lee
- Mollie Dorsey Sanford
- Sidney Lanier
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Walt Whitman
- Emily Dickinson
- Mark Twain
- Satanta
- Chief Joseph
- Bierce, Ambrose
- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
- Kate Chopin
- Crane, Stephen
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Edgar Lee Masters
- James Thurber
- Willa Cather
- Sherwood Anderson
- Katherine Anne Porter
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Ernest Hemingway
- William Faulkner
- John Steinbeck
- Richard Wright
- Eudora Welty
- Ezra Pound
- Amy Lowell
- Carl Sandburg
- Langston Hughes
- Marianne Moore
- Archibald MacLeish
- Robert Frost
- Countee Cullen
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Elinor Wylie
- Sara Teasdale
- T. S. Eliot
- James Weldon Johnson
- John Crowe Ransom
- Wallace Stevens
- Jean Toomer
- Williams, William Carlos
- E. E. Cummings
- Phyllis McGinley
- Arna Bontemps
- Claude McKay
- Margaret Walker
- Robinson Jeffers
- Louise Bogan
- Lewis Thomas
- Dorothy Parker
- Tennessee Williams
- Robert Anderson
- Hellman, Lillian
- Patrick F. McManus
- William Least Heat Moon
- Richard Rodriguez
- Sabine R. Ulibarrí
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Baldwin, James
- Ralph Ellison
- Mona Van Duyn
- Richard Wilbur
- Denise Levertov
- David Wagoner
- Theodore Roethke
- Robert Hayden
- Shapiro, Karl Jay
- Adrienne Rich
- Richard Eberhart
- May Swenson
- Mari Evans
- Maxine Kumin
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Howard Nemerov
- Robert Lowell
- Galway Kinnell
- William Stafford
- Randall Jarrell
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- John N. Morris
- Sylvia Plath
- Amiri Baraka
- Vern Rutsala
- N. Scott Momaday
- Lawson Fusao Inada
- Jim Wayne Miller
- James Masao Mitsui
- Gary Soto
- Leslie Silko
- Teresa Palomo Acosta
- Isaac Asimov
- Updike, John.
- Bernard Malamud
- Carson McCullers
- Kurt Vonnegut
- O'Connor, Flannery.
- Ray Bradbury
- Eugenia Collier
- Annie Dillard
- James, Henry
- Edith Wharton
- Walter Blair
- Paul Farmer
- Theodore Hornberger
- Margaret Wasson
- Conrad Richter
- Bernard Augustine De Voto
- Pearl S. Buck
- Robert Penn Warren
- Saroyan, William
- Conrad Aiken
- Sinclair Lewis
- Esther Forbes
- Byrd, William
- John Smith
- George Washington
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Herman Melville
- Paul Hamilton Hayne
- Henry Timrod
- Abram Joseph Ryan
- Bret Harte
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- O. Henry
- Wolfe, Tom.
- Stephen Vincent Benét
- Irwin Shaw
- Paul Engle
- W. H. Auden
- Vachel Lindsay
- Leonie Adams
- Wright, James
- Ogden Nash
- David McCord
- Morris Bishop
- Richard Willard Armour
- Don Marquis
- E. J. Kahn
- Paul Horgan
- W. L. White
- John Davenport
- E. B. White
- Jacques Barzun
- Santayana, George
- Cleveland Amory
- Norman Cousins
- Frank C. Laubach
- Vannevar Bush
- Jesse Stuart
- Douglas Southall Freeman
- Catherine Drinker Bowen
- Philip Hamburger
- Eugene O'Neill
- Robert C. Pooley
- Clarence Day
- Thornton Wilder
- Theresa Helburn
- Brad Schulberg
Contributions
- Dwyer, Carlota Cárdenas de. - Contributor
- Wood, Kerry M. - Contributor
Publication
1985 - Scott, Foresman and Company, Glenview, Il, USA, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
211,500 words, Guess
Page Count
846 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveunitedstatesinli1985mill
- Internet Archiveunitedstatesinli00dwye
- ISBN-10067327005X
- ISBN-139780673270054
- GoogleDjQSAQAAMAAJ
and 4 more
- Goodreads5729334
- Library of Congress Control Number85161325
- OCLC Control Number29193815
- Open LibraryOL2603120M
Classifications
- DDC810/.8
- LCCPS507 .U45 1985
Description
Selections include: ... - [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) by Nathaniel Hawthorne ... - [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) by Ambrose Bierce ... - [A Pair of Silk Stockings](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078930W/A_Pair_of_Silk_Stockings) by Kate Chopin - [The Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) - [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) - [The Glass Menagerie](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL30293W) by Tennesse Williams
Description
A textbook tracing the development of American literature from 1500 to the present.
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Series Statement
- America Reads
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