Twelve original essays on great American novels
By: edited by Charles Shapiro.
Contributors: Gold, Herbert, 1924-
Publisher: Waynes State University Press
Published: 1958
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851; Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864; Melville, Herman, 1819-1891; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910; Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900; James, Henry, 1843-1916; Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937; Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945; Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941; Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1896-1940; Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961; Faulkner, William, 1897-1962; American fiction
Other titles: Scruggs.
Notes: Bound in green cloth; stamped in gold. Dust jacket.
From the library of Helen E. Scruggs.
Table of contents: title: The Deerslayer, a democratic knight of the wilderness, by David Brion Davis.; title: Five acts of The scarlet letter, by Malcolm Cowley.; title: A re-reading of Moby Dick, by Granville Hicks.; title: Wonder for Huckleberry Finn, by George P. Elliott.; title: The red badge of courage, by Bernard Weisberger.; title: James' Ambassadors, by Richard Chase.; title: Edith Wharton's The house of Mirth, by Walter B. Rideout.; title: Jennie Gerhardt: the American family and the American dream, by Charles Shapiro.; title: Winesburg, Ohio: the purity and cunning of Sherwood Anderson, by Herbert Gold.; title: The life of Gatsby, by John W. Aldridge.; title: The death of love in The sun also rises, by Mark Spilka.; title: The stillness of Light in August, by Alfred Kazin.