Overview :No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger international audience than Edgar Allan Poe. Widely translated, read, and studi... Read More
Overview :Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), son of itinerant actors, holds a secure place in the firmament of history as America's first master of suspense... Read More
Overview :Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald met in 1925, two weeks after the publication of The Great Gatsby, in the Dingo Bar in Paris. From t... Read More
Overview :Between 1900 and 1940, Paris was the capital of high modernism and the center of artistic experimentation--Paris was "where the twentieth ce... Read More
Overview :This book gathers together eleven essays on important American short story sequences of the twentieth century. The introduction elucidates p... Read More
Overview :The nine essays gathered here pursue the provocative implications of Toni Morrison's claim that no early American writer was more important ... Read More