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American Literature

1. Crescent: A Novel

   Diana Abu-Jaber

   "Abu-Jaber's voluptuous prose features insights into the Arab American community that are wisely, warmly depicted."—San Francisco ChronicleMore

2. Little Women

   Louisa May Alcott, Gregory Eiselein, Anne K Phillips

   This authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (1868–69) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations.More

3. Ragged Dick

   Horatio Alger, Jr., Hildegard Hoeller

   Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks is arguably the best known of Horatio Alger’s American rags-to-riches stories.More

4. Winesburg, Ohio

   Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White

   Set against the backdrop of a fictional 1890s town, Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio depicts the not-so-simple lives of its residents as seen through the eyes of George Willard, a young and observant resident.More

5. The Norton Anthology of American Literature

   Nina Baym, Robert S. Levine, Wayne Franklin, Et Al.

   Eighth Edition / Volume(s): 2 / 1865 to the Present

   Read by more than 2.5 million students over 30 years, The Norton Anthology of American Literature sets the standard and remains an unmatched value.More

6. Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women

   Patricia Bell-Scott

   Life Notes is the first collection devoted exclusively to writings from the journals, diaries, and personal notebooks of contemporary black women.
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7. Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist

   Charles Brockden Brown, Bryan Waterman

   The first gothic novel in America, Wieland (1798) is now available in a Norton Critical Edition.More

8. Readings in American Folklore

   Jan Harold Brunvand

   This book fills the long-felt need for an organized collection of scholarly studies in American folklore.

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9. The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings

   Jan Harold Brunvand

   The book that launched America's urban legend obsession!More

10. The Study of American Folklore: An Introduction

    Jan Harold Brunvand

    Fourth Edition

    The definitive introduction to American folklore.More

11. O Pioneers!

    Willa Cather, Sharon O'Brien

    Willa Cather's masterful 1913 novel marks her return to the Nebraska of her youth, and to the stories of the immigrant settlers she had known during her childhood and teenage years in Red Cloud.More

12. My Ántonia

    Willa Cather, Sharon O'Brien

    In the final volume in her prairie trilogy, Willa Cather fully transforms memory into art to create her most autobiographical novel.More

13. Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology

    Jules Chametzky, John Felstiner, Hilene Flanzbaum, Et Al.

    The Most Comprehensive Anthology of Jewish American Literature Ever Published: With the work of 145 writers, from 1645 to the present, writing in all genres—fiction, poetry, drama, essays, letters, editorials, journals, autobiography, cartoons, song lyrics, and jokes.More

14. The Marrow of Tradition

    Charles W. Chesnutt, Werner Sollors

    The Norton Critical Edition of this hugely influential novel gives readers the fullest possible sense of its historical background and critical assessment.More

15. The Conjure Stories

    Charles W. Chesnutt, Jennifer Rae Greeson, Robert B. Stepto

    Fourteen conjure tales by one of America’s most influential African American fiction writers.More