The English Language: A Linguistic History
The Sixth Edition offers the work of 242 writers—30 newly included—representing the extraordinary wealth and diversity of American literature. Among the many major works included in their entirety are Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Thoreau's Walden, Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Clemens's Huckleberry Finn, Chopin's The Awakening, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, Larsen's Quicksand, Ginsberg's "Howl," Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, and Parks's The America Play. Informative introductions, headnotes, footnotes, and bibliographies accompany the texts.
Package 2, "1865 to the Present," contains three slipcased volumes: "1965-1914" (Volume C), "Between the Wars: 1914-1945" (Volume D), and "Literature Since 1945" (Volume E).
Country | USA |
Binding | Paperback |
EAN | 9780393977943 |
Edition | 6th |
ISBN | 0393977943 |
Label | W W Norton & Co Inc |
Manufacturer | W W Norton & Co Inc |
NumberOfItems | 3 |
NumberOfPages | 2870 |
PublicationDate | 2002-07-01 |
Publisher | W W Norton & Co Inc |
Studio | W W Norton & Co Inc |
ReleaseDate | 0000-00-00 |