Life in America
By: edited by Gladys Eliot Mansir ...
Publisher: Harper
Published: 1941
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century.; National characteristics, American -- Fiction.; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Other titles: Harper fiction.
Notes: At head of title: Harper fiction.
"Passages from modern American novels."--Foreword to teachers.
"Illustrated with reproductions in black and white of the book jackets. Pictures of the authors and their biographies are placed on the backs of the illustrations."--p.[v]
"First edition."
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Yesterday. The farm, by Louis Bromfield. The perennial bachelor, by Anne Parrish. The rise of David Levinsky, by Abraham Cahan. Miss Susie Slagle's, by Augusta Tucker.; title: pt. 2. Today. Nitchey Tilley, by Roy Helton. F. O. B. Detroit, by Wessel Smitter. The web and the rock, by Thomas Wolfe. You can't go home again, by Thomas Wolfe.; title: Aids to interpretation.; title: Bibliography (p. 353-358)