American literature library
Contributors: Cliffs Notes, Inc
Series: Cliffs notes hardbound literary libraries; Cliffs notes hardbound literary libraries
Publisher: Moonbeam Publications
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Grosse Pointe, Mich
Language: eng
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; American literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Contents cont.: v. 5. The jazz age to WW II, Part 2 (Miss Lonelyhearts & Day  of the locust, Native son, Of mice and men, Our town, The pearl, The red pony, The sound and the fury, The sun also rises, Tender is the night, The unvanquished) -- v. 6. Post-War American literature, Part 1 (100 years of solitude, All the king's men, The assistant, The autobiography of Malcolm X, The bell jar, Black like me, Catch-22, Catcher in the rye, The color purple, The crucible, Death of a salesman, Dune and other works, The glass menagerie & A streetcar named Desire) -- v. 7. Post-War American literature, Part 2 (The invisible man, Manchild in the promised land, O'Conner's short stories, The old man and the sea, One flew over the cuckoo's nest, The ox-bow incident, A separate peace, Shane, To kill a mockingbird, Vonnegut's major works, Walden two, Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: value: v. 1. Early U.S. & Romantic period literature (Autobiography of Ben Franklin, Billy Budd & Typee, The deerslayer, Emerson's Essays, The house of seven gables, The last of the Mohicans, Leaves of grass, Moby Dick, Poe's short stories, The scarlet letter, Walden); value: v. 2 Civil War to 1900 (The American, The awakening, A Connecticut Yankee in King's Arthur's court, Daisy Miller & Turn of the screw, Emily Dickinson: Selected poems, Huckleberry Finn, The portrait of a lady, The prince and the pauper, Red badge of courage, Tom Sawyer, Uncle Tom's cabin); value: v. 3 Early 20th century (American tragedy, Babbitt, Call of the wild & White Fang, Ethan Frome, The jungle, Main street, My Antonia, Sister Carrie, Winesburg, Ohio,); value: v. 4 The jazz age to WW II, Part 1 (Absalom, Absalom!, As I lay dying, The bear, Black boy, A farewell to arms, For whom the bell tolls, Go down Moses, The good earth. The grapes of wrath, The great Gatsby, Light in August)