Category: Anthologies

This entertaining, informative collection covers the best of American satire--from Ben Franklin's cutting satiric attacks to Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Celestial Railroad, " Calvin Trillin's "Old Marrieds, "Mark Twain's "American Abroad" to P.J. O'Rourke's "The Innocents Abroad--Updated, " a late 20th-century take on Twain's classic piece. "Entertaining and satisfying...An excellent introduction."--"Amazon.com."
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The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Literaure to 1820, 6th Edition, Vol A

By: NINA BAYM

Price: $5.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton: July 2002

Seller ID: 118242

ISBN: 0393978982

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Norton Anthology of American Literature: 1865-1914

By: NINA BAYM

Price: $4.95

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: July 2002

Seller ID: 214247

ISBN: 0393978990

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Norton Anthology of American Literature Since 1945, Vol. E

By: NINA BAYM

Price: $6.95

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc (Np): October 2002

Seller ID: 262007

ISBN: 0393979016

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Great American Short Stories (Wtm) (Watermill Classics)

By: No author

Price: $1.95

Publisher: Troll Communications: January 1997

Seller ID: 306128

ISBN: 0816707987

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction (Shorter Twelfth Edition)

By: Norton

Price: $5.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: January 2008

Seller ID: 152125

ISBN: 0393931730

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

With readings in a wide variety of genres, subjects, and styles, it offers the largest and most thoughtfully chosen collection of essays for composition students today. The Twelfth Edition has been carefully revised, with 25 percent of its readings new and an extensive new introduction to reading and writing with guidelines to all the elements cited in the WPA Outcomes Statement. Available in two editions: a full edition, with 206 readings; and a shorter edition, with 123.
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Ninth Edition) (Vol. D)

By: Norton

Price: $9.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: February 2012

Seller ID: 286500

ISBN: 0393912523

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than ever before, the apparatus you trust, and a new, free Supplemental Ebook with more than 1,000 additional texts. Read by more than 8 million students, The Norton Anthology of English Literature sets the standard and remains an unmatched value.
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The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Volume E: 1945 to the Present

By: Norton

Price: $5.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: April 2007

Seller ID: 332681

ISBN: 0393927431

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Under Nina Baym s direction, the editors have considered afresh each selection and all the apparatus to make the anthology an even better teaching tool.
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The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Seventh Edition) (Vol. D)

By: Norton

Price: $5.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: April 2007

Seller ID: 332684

ISBN: 0393927423

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Under Nina Baym s direction, the editors have considered afresh each selection and all the apparatus to make the anthology an even better teaching tool.
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Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy (Norton Critical Edition)

By: Norton

Price: $6.95

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: May 1973

Seller ID: 343166

ISBN: 0393099970

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Norton anthology of short fiction

By: Norton

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Norton: January 1981

Seller ID: 344564

ISBN: 0393951820

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology

By: Norton

Price: $9.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: September 1997

Seller ID: 347291

ISBN: 039331698X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

It includes works by sixty-eight authors: short fiction, novels, cartoons, graphics, hypertexts, creative nonfiction, and theoretical writings. This is the first anthology to do full justice to the vast range of American innovation in fiction writing since 1945.
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Merriam-Websters Dictionary of American Writers

By: NOT AVAILABLE (NA)

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Merriam Webster: April 2001

Seller ID: 69101

ISBN: 0877790221

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A guide to America's literary tradition.- Over 1,600 articles on writers, literary works, movements, and influential periodicals- The companion volume to C-SPAN's series American Writers: A Journey Through History- More than 170 black-and-white photographs
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Great American Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: PAUL NEGRI

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Dover Publications: June 2002

Seller ID: 281377

ISBN: 0486421198

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Featuring 19 of the finest works in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, plus stories by Hawthorne, Twain, Cather, and others.
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Great American Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: PAUL NEGRI

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Dover Publications: June 2002

Seller ID: 295905

ISBN: 0486421198

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present

By: Phillip Lopate

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Anchor: January 1995

Seller ID: 292274

ISBN: 038542339X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals, love and disappointment, the pleasures of solitude, reading, taking a walk -- to offer insight into the human condition and the great social and political issues of the day. "The Art of the Personal Essay" is the ...
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