Robert Penn Warren was unique among twentieth-century American writers for having achieved excellence in a broad and assorted range of genres: poems, novels, plays, critical works, historical essays, personal essays, biography, and innovative textbooks. In this collection of essays, critics and poets -- among the finest Warren scholars -- assess ...
Humorists from the Old Southwest: Crockett, Longstreet, Thompson, Baldwin, Thorpe, Hooper, Robb, Harris, and Lewis; formed a kind of shadow canon in American literature that led to Mark Twain's early work, from 1834 to 1867. James H. Justus's examines this writing in the context of other discourses contemporaneous with it.
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Date Published: 1966
Description: Very Good. -3rd Printing--No Jacket. Very Good 8vo-over 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall 337 pgs. Interior-Flawless. The soft cover is well preserved w/ only light signs of use. -Publish Place: Englewood Cliffs, N. J. -Size: read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Date Published: 1966
Description: Good. ---Interior has minor pencil marks otherwise clean and tight. 339 pages. -Publish Place: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey-Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date Published: 1962
Description: Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened pages with some foxing of first and last pages as well as around page edges. Wraps have light shelf wear with overall age-darkening and minor edge wear. 151 pp. plus appendix and advertisements. Contents: Mooney, "The Comic in Poe's Fiction"; Hill, "Mark Twain's Quarrels with Elisha Bliss"; Levy, "A Reading of 'The Figure in the Carpet'"; Putzel, "Dreiser, Reedy, and 'De Maupassant, Junior"; Sowder, 'Colonel Thomas ... read more
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Cengage Advantage Books: A Pocketful of Prose: Vintage Short Fiction, Volume I, Revised Edition
