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Literature and its times: profiles of 300 notable literary works and the historical events that influenced them
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9780787606077
9780787606084
078760609
9780787606114
9781414435718
9780787606060
9780787606091
9780787606107
9780787606084
078760609
9780787606114
9781414435718
9780787606060
9780787606091
9780787606107
Subjects
Subjects
American literature
American literature -- 19th century
American literature -- 20th century
Civil rights movements in literature
Classical literature
Classical literature -- History and criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Electronic books
European literature
European literature -- 17th century
European literature -- 18th century
European literature -- 19th century
European literature -- 20th century
European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
History and criticism
History in literature
Literature
Literature, Medieval
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism
Literature -- History and criticism
Literature and history
War and literature
World history in literature
American literature -- 19th century
American literature -- 20th century
Civil rights movements in literature
Classical literature
Classical literature -- History and criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Electronic books
European literature
European literature -- 17th century
European literature -- 18th century
European literature -- 19th century
European literature -- 20th century
European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
History and criticism
History in literature
Literature
Literature, Medieval
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism
Literature -- History and criticism
Literature and history
War and literature
World history in literature
Table of Contents
From the Book
v. 1. Ancient times to the American and French Revolutions, (pre-history-1790s)
v. 2. Civil wars to frontier societies (1800-1880s)
v. 3. Growth of empires to the Great Depression (1890-1930s)
v. 4. World War II to the affluent fifties (1940-1950s)
v. 5. Civil rights movements to future times (1960-2000).
v. 1 The adventures of Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra --
Aeneid / Virgil --
Antigone / Sophocles --
The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin / Benjamin Franklin --
Beauty: a retelling of the story of Beauty and the beast / Robin McKinley --
Benito Cereno / Herman Melville --
Beowulf / Anonymous --
Sailor Billy Budd / Herman Melville --
The bull from the sea / Mary Renault --
Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer --
Common sense / Thomas Paine --
The crucible / Arthur Miller --
Cyrano de Bergerac / Edmond Rostand --
The declaration of independence / Thomas Jefferson --
The devil and Tom Walker / Washington Irving --
Drums along the Mohawk / Walter D. Edmonds --
Frankenstein / Mary Shelley --
Give me liberty or give me death / Patrick Henry --
Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift --
Hamlet / William Shakespeare --
Henry IV, part I / William Shakespeare --
The hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien --
The hunchback of Notre Dame / Victor Hugo --
Iliad / Homer --
Inferno / Dante Alighieri --
Julius Caesar / William Shakespeare --
King Lear / William Shakespeare --
The last of the Mohicans / James Fenimore Cooper --
The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving.
v. 1 The light in the forest / Conrad Richter --
Macbeth / William Shakespeare --
A man for all seasons / Robert Bolt --
Medea / Euripides --
The merchant of Venice / William Shakespeare --
The merry adventures of Robin Hood / Howard Pyle --
A midsummer night's dream / Wiliiam Shakespeare --
A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift --
Mutiny on the Bounty / Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall --
Odyssey / Homer --
The once and future king / T.H. White --
Othello / William Shakespeare --
Paradise Lost / John Milton --
Poor Richard's almanack / Benjamin Franklin --
The Prince / Niccolo Machiavelli --
Republic / Plato --
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving --
Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe --
Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare --
The scarlet letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The scarlet pimpernel / Baroness Emmuska Orczy --
Siddhartha / Herman Hesse --
Tale of two cities / Charles Dickens --
The tempest / William Shakespeare --
The three musketeers / Alexandre Dumas --
Tituba of Salem village / Ann Petry --
Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson --
A vindication of the rights of woman / Mary Wollstonecraft --
Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte --
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne.
v. 2 Abraham Lincoln: the prairie years / Carl Sandburg --
Across five Aprils / Irene Hunt --
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain --
Ain't I a woman / Sojourner Truth --
Alice's adventures in wonderland / Lewis Carroll --
Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy --
Barn burning / William Faulkner --
The bear / William Faulkner --
The belle of Amherst / William Luce --
Beloved / Toni Morrison --
Black Elk speaks / John Neihardt --
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee / Dee Brown --
The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allen Poe --
Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau --
The confessions of Nat Turner / William Styron --
The count of Monte Cristo / Alexandre Dumas --
Daisy Miller / Henry James --
A doll's house / Henrik Ibsen --
The elephant man / Bernard Pomerance --
Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton --
Gettysburg address / Abraham Lincoln --
Gone with the wind / Margaret Mitchell --
Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad --
The hound of the Baskervilles / Arthur Conan Doyle --
I will fight no more forever / Chief Joseph --
Incidents in the life of a slave girl written by herself / Harriet A. Jacobs --
Ishi, last of his tribe / Theodora Kroeber --
Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte --
John Brown's final speech / John Brown --
Leaves of grass / Walt Whitman --
Little women / Louisa May Alcott --
Madam Bovary / Gustave Flaubert --
The miracle worker / William Gibson --
Les miserables / Victor Hugo --
Moby Dick / Herman Melville --
Narrative of the live of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / Frederick Douglass.
v. 2 The necklace / Guy de Maupassant --
The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain --
An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce --
Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens --
One hundred years of solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez --
The open window / Saki --
The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte --
The ox-bow incident / Walter Van Tilburg Clark --
Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen --
Ragged Dick, or, street life in New York with the Boot-Blacks / Horatio Alger --
The red badge of courage / Stephen Crane --
Self-reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Shane / Jack Schaefer --
Sister Carrie / Theodore Dreiser --
Sons and lovers / D.H. Lawrence --
The souls of black folk / W.E.B. DuBois
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The story catcher / Mari Sandoz --
Tess of the D'Urbervilles / Thomas Hardy --
Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe --
Thousand pieces of gold / Ruthanne Lum McCunn --
Tom Brown's schooldays / Thomas Hughes --
The turn of the screw / Henry James --
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea / Jules Verne --
Two years before the mast / Richard Henry Dana, Jr. --
Uncle Remus: his songs and his sayings / Joel Chandler Harris --
Uncle Tom's cabin or, life among the lowly / Harriet Beecher Stowe --
Up from slavery / Booker T. Washington --
Walden / Henry David Thoreau --
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
v. 3 All creatures great and small / James Herriot --
All quiet on the western front / Erich Maria Remarque --
The awakening / Kate Chopin --
Babbitt / Sinclair Lewis --
Barrio boy / Ernesto Galarza --
Black boy / Richard Wright --
Bound for glory / Woody Guthrie --
The call of the wild / Jack London --
The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov --
A child's Christmas in Wales / Dylan Thomas --
A Christmas memory / Truman Capote --
Cold sassy tree / Olive Ann Burns --
The color purple / Alice Walker --
Dandelion wine / Ray Bradbury --
A day no pigs would die / Robert Newton Peck --
A death in the family / James Agee --
Dubliners / James Joyce --
A farewell to arms / Ernest Hemingway --
Fiddler on the roof / Joseph Stein --
First inaugural address / Franklin D. Roosevelt --
The good earth / Pearl S. Buck --
The grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck --
The heart is a lonely hunter / Carson McCullers --
Home to Harlem / Claude McKay --
The house of mirth / Edith Wharton --
The jungle / Upton Sinclair --
Kim / Rudyard Kipling --
The kitchen god's wife / Amy Tan --
Like water for chocolate / Laura Esquivel --
The little foxes / Lillian Hellman --
The little prince / Antoine de Saint-Exupery --
Long day's journey into night / Eugene O'Neill --
The Maltese falcon / Dashiell Hammett --
The most dangerous game / Richard Connell --
Native son / Richard Wright.
v. 3 Noon wine / Katherine Anne Porter --
Not without laughter / Langston Hughes --
O pioneers! / Willa Cather --
Of human bondage / W. Somerset Maugham --
Of mice and men / John Steinbeck --
The old gringo / Carlos Fuentes --
Our town / Thornton Wilder --
Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen --
A passage to India / E.M. Forster --
A portrait of the artist as a young man / James Joyce --
Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw --
Ragtime / E.L. Doctorow --
Rebecca / Daphne du Maurier --
The red pony / John Steinbeck --
The road from home / David Kherdian --
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence --
Roll of thunder, hear my cry / Mildred Taylor --
A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf --
The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber --
Sounder / William H. Armstrong --
The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston --
To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee --
A tree grows in Brooklyn / Betty Smith --
The war of the worlds / H.G. Wells --
The waste land / T.S. Eliot --
A worn path / Eudora Welty
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Yentl, the Yeshiva boy / Isaac Bashevis Singer.
v. 4 Almos' a man / Richard Wright --
An American childhood / Annie Dillard --
Animal farm / George Orwell --
The bell jar / Sylvia Plath --
Betsey Brown / Ntozake Shange --
Biloxi blues / Neil Simon --
Bless me, Ultima / Rudolfo A. Anaya --
The bluest eye / Toni Morrisson --
The Caine mutiny / Herman Wouk --
Catch-22 / Joseph Heller --
The catcher in the rye / J.D. Salinger --
Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko --
The chosen / Chaim Potok --
Cry, the beloved country / Alan Paton --
Dawn / Elie Wiesel --
Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller --
The diary of a young girl / Anne Frank --
Eat a bowl of tea: a novel of New York's Chinatown / Louis Chu --
The endless steppe: growing up in Siberia / Esther Hautzig --
Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston --
Fences / August Wilson --
Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes --
Friedrich / Hans Peter Richter --
The golden notebook / Doris Lessing --
Heart of Aztlan / Rudolfo A. Anaya --
Hiroshima diary / Michihiko Hachiya --
House made of dawn / N. Scott Momaday --
The human comedy / William Saroyan --
I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou --
Invisible man / Ralph Ellison.
v. 4 Jacob have I loved / Katherine Paterson --
Kon-tiki / Thor Heyerdahl --
Lord of the flies / William Golding --
The lottery / Shirley Jackson --
The man without a face / Isabelle Holland --
Manchild in the promised land / Claude Brown --
The member of the wedding / Carson McCullers --
The natural / Bernard Malamud --
Night / Elie Wiesel --
The old man and the sea / Ernest Hemingway --
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich / Alexander Solzhenitsyn --
One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey --
Pocho / Jose Antonio Villarreal --
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie / Muriel Spark --
A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry --
Red sky at morning / Richard Bradford --
A separate peace / John Knowles --
Seventeen syllables / Hisaye Yamamoto --
Silent spring / Rachel Carson --
Slaughterhouse five / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. --
So far from the bamboo grove / Yoko Kawashima Watkins --
Speech on the evacuation at Dunkirk / Winston Churchill --
A streetcar named desire / Tennessee Williams --
Summer of my German soldier / Bette Greene --
Twelve angry men / Reginald Rose --
West side story / Arthur Laurents --
Where are you going, where have you been / Joyce Carol Oates --
The zoo story / Edward Albee --
Zoot suit / Luis Valdez.
v. 5 Angels in America / Tony Kushner --
The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X --
The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / Ernest J. Gaines --
The bean trees / Barbara Kingsolver --
Bless the beasts and children / Glendon Swarthout --
Brave new world / Aldous Huxley --
Carrie / Stephen King --
Childhood's end / Arthur C. Clarke --
The chocolate war / Robert Cormier --
The contender / Robert Lipsyte --
Donald duk / Frank Chin --
Dune / Frank Herbert --
Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor --
Fahrenheit 451: the temperature at which books burn / Ray Bradbury --
Fallen angels / Walter Dean Myers --
The fire next time / James Baldwin --
For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf / Ntozake Shange --
Foundation / Isaac Asimov --
A gathering of old men / Ernest J. Gaines --
The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood --
A here ain't nothin' but a sandwich / Alice Childress --
His own where / June Jordan --
House of stairs / William Sleator --
The house of the spirits / Isabel Allende --
The house on Mango street / Sandra Cisneros --
Hunger of memory / Richard Rodriguez --
I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. --
I never sang for my father / Robert Anderson --
Imagining Argentina / Lawrence Thornton.
v. 5 In Nueva York / Nicholasa Mohr --
Inaugural address / John F. Kennedy --
The joy luck club / Amy Tan --
The left hand of darkness / Ursula K. Le Guin --
Love medicine / Louise Erdrich --
Nineteen eighty-four / George Orwell --
Ordinary people / Judith Guest --
The outsiders / S.E. Hinton --
The pigman / Paul Zindel --
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek / Annie Dillard --
The prince of tides / Pat Conroy --
The right stuff / Tom Wolfe --
Roots, the saga of an American family / Alex Haley --
The runner / Cynthia Voigt --
Shoeless Joe / W.P. Kinsella --
Stranger in a strange land / Robert A. Heinlein --
Sweet whispers, brother Rush / Virginia Hamilton --
The time of the hero / Mario Vargas Llosa --
Understand this / Jervey Tervalon --
Watership down / Richard Adams --
The woman warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts / Maxiine Hong Kingston --
A yellow raft in blue water / Michael Dorris.
From the eBook
v. 1. Ancient times to the American and French Revolutions, (pre-history-1790s)
v. 2. Civil wars to frontier societies (1800-1880s)
v. 3. Growth of empires to the Great Depression (1890-1930s)
v. 4. World War II to the affluent fifties (1940-1950s)
v. 5. Civil rights movements to future times (1960-2000).
From the eBook
v. 1. Ancient times to the American and French Revolutions, (pre-history-1790s)
v. 2. Civil wars to frontier societies (1800-1880s)
v. 3. Growth of empires to the Great Depression (1890-1930s)
v. 4. World War II to the affluent fifties (1940-1950s)
v. 5. Civil rights movements to future times (1960-2000).
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