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Analytical appreciations of the works of such diverse writers as Huxley, Greene, C.P. Snow and Evelyn Waugh.

"This Companion examines the full range and vigor of the American novel. From the American exceptionalism of James Fenimore Cooper to the apocalyptic post-Americanism of Cormac McCarthy, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics chronicle the major aesthetic innovations that have shaped the American novel over the past two centuries. The essays evaluate the work, life and legacy of influential American novelists including Melville,...

This book seeks an "understanding of a representative British novelist of the 20th century" -- Introduction.

Essays on "fiction written by Jews on Jewish themes or involving Jewish interests and concerns."--Preface.

William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Robert Penn Warren, and Thomas Wolfe stand at the pinnacle of modern American fiction. Their works are among the most widely read and extensively studied today. As social realists, they described life honestly and accurately, influencing generations of writers around the world. Modern Classic Writers, part of the Essential Bibliography of American Fiction series, introduces the...

Examining an important and often overlooked aspect of most black writers' literary ancestry -- their southernness, Payne argues that characteristically southern themes and narrative forms occur in the novels of Chesnutt, Johnson, Toomer, Wright and Ellison. They contain not just exclusively Afro-American narrative influences but also southern elements visible in the works of Wolfe, Faulkner and O'Connor.