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1. All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost: A Novel

   Lan Samantha Chang

   "A smart, thoughtful, and often poignant meditation."—Boston GlobeMore

2. All Men Are Mortal

   Simone de Beauvoir, Leonard M. Friedman

   Probably de Beauvoir's strangest and most compelling novel, this is the captivating story of a beautiful young actress who revives a downcast stranger at a French resort.More

3. All Other Nights: A Novel

   Dara Horn

   “Slam-bang... superb... masterful... gripping... marvelous.”—Washington PostMore

4. All Things, All at Once: New and Selected Stories

   Lee K. Abbott

   The long-awaited new collection from Lee K. Abbott, "Cheever's true heir, our major American short story writer" (William Harrison).More

5. The Ambassadors

   Henry James, S P. Rosenbaum

   Second Edition

   This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition of The Ambassadors again includes the author's preface as well as the most significant variants of the three earlier editions of the novel published in James's lifetime.More

6. The American

   Henry James, James W. Tuttleton

   The text reprinted in this volume is based on an examination of the five printed versions of The American (first published in 1877) which appeared in James's lifetime, and it is preceded by his "Preface to the New York Edition" (1907).More

7. American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry

   David St. John, Cole Swensen

   This spirited anthology of contemporary American poetry focuses on the new poem--the hybrid--a synthesis of traditional and experimental styles.More

8. The American Painter Emma Dial: A Novel

   Samantha Peale

   “Wicked, subversive, satirical, sophisticated, and deep.”—Kate ChristensenMore

9. American Salvage

   Bonnie Jo Campbell

   Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Fiction; finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction. “These short stories approach their subjects from an array of perspectives, but what they share is freshness, surprise, and a compulsion to plumb some absolute extremes of American existence.”—National Book Award citationMore

10. American Smooth: Poems

    Rita Dove

    "Rita Dove pulls the ultimate dance trick: she makes it look easy."--New York Times Book ReviewMore

11. American Son: A Novel

    Brian Ascalon Roley

    A powerful novel about ethnically fluid California, and the corrosive relationship between two Filipino brothers.More

12. American Sonnets: Poems

    Gerald Stern

    "Stern is a romantic with a sense of humor...a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary."—Edward HirschMore

13. An American Type: A Novel

    Henry Roth, Willing Davidson

    “His early novel Call It Sleep was his Ulysses. His late work An American Type is his Grapes of Wrath.”—Thane Rosenbaum, Los Angeles Times More

14. American Voices, American Lives: A Documentary Reader

    Wayne Franklin

    American Voices, American Lives is a fresh, illuminating core reader for introductory courses in American studies and an exciting companion volume for surveys in American history and American literature that offers extraordinary documents, many never before accessible to students.More

15. American Women Regionalists: A Norton Anthology

    Judith Fetterley, Marjorie Pryse

    A vibrant tradition—long neglected—is brought back to readers in this generous and rich collection.More