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Guides the reader through the life and work, as well as eight major plays of one of America's foremost playwrights, Arthur Miller.

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Accessible literary criticism of Charles Dickens' important fictional works.

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An examination of the literary accomplishments of both Charlotte and Emily Bronte, particularly how they redefined the Victorian novel with "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights". It contains biographical accounts, along with analyses of plot, character development, thematic issues, and more.

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Close readings are given for a selection of the most important works that represent Poe's canon of writings, including the chilling Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat.

This introductory study to Edgar Allan Poe begins with a concise biographical chapter that explores Poe's troubled experiences.

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Full chapters are also devoted to examining his collections of short fiction, the African Stories, and the posthumous works.

Each chapter carefully examines the major literary components of Hemingway's fiction with plot synopsis, analysis of character development, themes, settings, historical context, and stylistic features.

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Eugene O'Neill is the only American dramatist ever to have received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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This work examines the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a critique and chronicle of American society during the Jazz Age. The five novels covered are: "This Side of Paradise"; "The Beautiful and Damned"; "The Great Gatsby"; "Tender is The Night"; and "The Last Tycoon".

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Student Companion to Herman Melville provides a critical introduction to the life and literary works of Herman Melville, the nineteenth-century American author of Moby-Dick, as well as nine other novels and numerous short stories and poems.

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The Student Companion to James Fenimore Cooper At the dawn of America's continental empire, James Fenimore Cooper in the early 1800s became the new nation's first major novelist, inaugurating a great period in American literature and bequeathing a number of classic texts including the Leather-Stocking Tales.

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A critical presentation of Jane Austen's six major works of fiction, including perrenial favourites "Emma" and "Pride and Predjudice". It examimes Austen's own background and the historical context of the characters and events in the novels.

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This book guides readers through these and other important Steinbeck works, particularly those that are most often taught, including The Pearl (1945), The Red Pony (1933), and significant short fiction.

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An examination of the humour and humanity in Mark Twain's short stories, travel narratives and five novels. A biographical account traces Twain's life, and then the text discusses his writing's thematic concerns, plot structure, character development and historical background.

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A critical introduction to the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne designed for high school students and general readers.

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Examining Richard Wright's autobiographical and fictional works, this study also serves students of literature and social history as it explores the themes of racism and all types of institutionalized oppression that Wright exposed in his provocative writings

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Born into a family of writers, Stephen Crane wrote his first poem, I'd Rather Have when he was eight, and his first short story, Uncle Jake and the Bell-Handle, at around the age of 13.

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From his earliest success in 1945 with the poignant 'The Glass Menagerie', until his final curtain call with the 1979 production of 'The Two-Character Play', Tennessee Williams never stopped experimenting with theatrical techniques and striving to explain his richly provocative ideas.

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In the mid- late 1800s and early 1900s, Thomas Hardy produced a plethora of eclectic works that were considered too candid and even sacrilegious for their time.

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Written especially for students, this critical introduction offers criticism of Cather's most widely read novels. A full chapter examines each work, with discussions of character development, thematic concerns, plot, critical reception, and historical contexts.

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An introduction to the Nobel-Prize-winning author's life and work, this book devotes opening chapters to his biography and literary heritage and subsequent chapters to each of his major works.

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A study of Zora Neale Hurston, examining her contributions to the Harlem Renaissance as well as her role as mediator between the black and white worlds in which she lived. A full chapter is devoted to analyzing each of Hurston's major works of fiction and biographical facts are included.