Product Description: A critical review with chapters on the different literary periods, the genres, the audience.

Product Description: Mark Twain - American Writers 5 was first published in 1960. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Product Description: Washington Irving - American Writers 25 was first published in 1963. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Product Description: Subtitle: And Now Published From the Original Manuscripts; Interspersed With Translations From the Ancients, and Other Pieces Not Heretofore in Print Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1809 Original Publisher: From the press of Lydia R...read more

Describes the efforts of Mason Locke Weems to distribute books across the United States during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

Product Description: Like Don Quixote, Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and Fielding's Tom Jones, Modern Chivalry is a tale of adventuring, episodic and exciting. Despite the author's European inspirations, it is a distinctively American book, not just because of its homespun, native characters and slapstick humor, but also because it is a narrative of journeying and questing...read more