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Anthology of American Literature, Volume II: Realism to the Present (Anthology American Literature)

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This huge textbook is a steal: hundreds of major works from the last century and a half, printed on quality paper, bound with a strong but flexible gum binding. If this were a hardcover, you'd pay twice the price for what it includes. It's thorough and scholarly, a tome that defines the Big League of anthologies. It's not for the shallow reader, though, who's accustomed to the sensuous audio-visuals of TV and the Internet. This is TEXT. Time to resuscitate the thinking mind, the patient intellect, the autonomous imagination.

American Literature, Vol. 2 / 0-13-083815-2

This anthology completely reversed the long-standing impression formed in my childhood that American literature is intrinsically boring. This volume includes hundreds of wonderful examples of superb American literature, particularly and especially from minority voices that I had never before been exposed to. The short stories provided by female and African American authors are absolutely wonderful, and they provide an important contrast to the "traditional" authors taught predominantly in grade schools. Which isn't to say that the "traditional" authors aren't also good, just that the contrast provided here by the multitude of voices is absolutely crucial to the appreciation of the evolution of American literature. I highly recommend this volume for any private library, and I would bet that even the most well-read enthusiast can find at least one new author here to enjoy.

REALISM LITERATURE
- Adams, Henry
- Bierce, Ambrose
- Dickenson, Emily
- Cable, George Washington
- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell
- Chopin, Kate
- Crane, Stephen
- Dreiser, Theodore
- Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
- Harris, Joel Chandler
- Harte, Bret
- Howells, William Dean
- James, Henry
- Jewett, Sarah Orne
- London, Jack
- Norris, Frank
- Twain, Mark
- Wharton, Edith
- Whitman, Walt

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE
- Albee, Edward
- Ammons, A.R.
- Anderson, Sherwood
- Baldwin, James
- Bambara, Toni Cade
- Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones)
- Barthelme, Donald
- Beattie, Ann
- Bellow, Saul
- Bishop, Elizabeth
- Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Carver, Raymond
- Cather, Willa
- Cisneros, Sandra
- Crane, Hart
- Cullen, Countee
- Cummings, E.E.
- DeLillo, Don
- Dickey, James
- dos Passos, John
- Dove, Rita
- Eliot, T.S.
- Ellison, Ralph
- Erdrich, Louise
- Faulkner, William
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Frost, Robert
- Ginsberg, Allen
- Glasgow, Ellen
- Gluck, Louise
- Hansberry, Lorraine
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Howe, Tina
- Hughes, Langston
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Jarrell, Randall
- Jeffers, Robinson
- Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Levertov, Denise
- Lowell, Robert
- Malamud, Bernard
- Mason, Bobbie Ann
- Merwin, W.S.
- Miller, Arthur
- Moore, Marianne
- Morrison, Toni
- Naylor, Gloria
- O'Conner, Flannery
- O'Neill, Eugene
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Olson, Tillie
- Plath, Sylvia
- Porter, Katherine Anne
- Pound, Ezra
- Pynchon, Thomas
- Rich, Adrienne
- Rivera, Tomas
- Robinson, Edwin Arlington
- Roethke, Theodore
- Roth, Philip
- Sanchez, Sonia
- Sandburg, Carl
- Sexton, Anne
- Silko, Leslie Marmon
- Stein, Gertrude
- Steinbeck, John
- Stevens, Wallace
- Tan, Amy
- Toomer, Jean
- Updike, James
- Walker, Alice
- Welty, Eudora
- Wilbur, Richard
- Williams, Tennesee
- Williams, William Carlos
- Wolfe, Thomas
- Wright, Richard

~ Ana Mardoll