An edition of The Britannica Library of Great American Writing - Volume II (1960)
The Britannica Library of Great American Writing
Volume II
By Louis Untermeyer,Mark Twain,Emily Dickinson,Henry Adams,John Hay,Edward Rowland Sill,Sidney Lanier,Ambrose Bierce,Henry James,Sarah Orne Jewett,James Whitcomb Riley,Lafcadio Hearn,Edwin Markham,O. Henry,Finlay Peter Dunne,William Allen White,Booth Tarkington,Edwin Arlington Robinson,Theodore Dreiser,Stephen Crane,James Weldon Johnson,Willa Cather,Clarence Day,Jack London,Robert Frost,Vachel Lindsay,Wallace Stevens,William Carlos Williams,H. L. Mencken,Sara Teasdale,Damon Runyon,Ring Lardner,Sinclair Lewis,Ezra Pound,Elinor Wylie,Van Wyck Brooks,John Hall Wheelock,Marianne Moore,Robinson Jeffers,T. S. Eliot,Eugene O'Neill,John Crowe Ransom,Conrad Aiken,Robert Benchley,Edna St. Vincent Millay,Archibald MacLeish,Dorothy Parker,Bartolomeo Vanzetti,James Thurber,Donald Ogden Stewart,Katherine Anne Porter,E. E. Cummings,Edmund Wilson,John Dos Passos,William Faulkner,Stephen Vincent Benét,E. B. White,Ernest Hemingway,Thomas Wolfe,Ogden Nash,Wolcott Gibbs,John Steinbeck,Erskine Caldwell,S. J. Perelman,William Saroyan,Leo Calvin Rosten,Eudora Welty,John Cheever,Irwin Shaw,Shirley Jackson,Ray Bradbury,Louise Bogan,Leonie Adams,Hart Crane,Stanley Kunitz,Theodore Roethke,Elizabeth Bishop,Karl Shapiro,Muriel Rukeyser,Robert Lowell,Richard Wilbur
Publish Date
1960
Publisher
Brittanica Press
Language
eng
Pages
-
Description:
subjects: civilization, tradition, change, death, short stories, allegory, nonlinear narrative, gentleman's agreements, recluses, Mentally ill women, Fiction, African Americans, husband and wife, race relations, History, Classic Literature, Juvenile audience, civil war, hanging, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Union
People: Peyton Farquhar, Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris, Quentin Compson, Nancy, Caddy, Jason, Dilsey, Jesus, Mrs. Compson, Mr. Stovall, Jailer, Mr. Lovelady
Places: United States, Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge
Times: Antebellum era, 1861-65