- Paperback: 2432 pages
- Publisher: Longman; 5 edition (21 Nov 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0130289418
- ISBN-13: 978-0130289414
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 16.1 x 7.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,207,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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For one-semester or one-quarter courses in American Literature.
The Concise Anthology of American Literature, Fifth Edition contains selections from Volumes I and II of the Anthology of American Literature, Seventh Edition. Carefully selected readings introduce students to America's literary heritage, from the colonial times of William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
A pretty good anthology
28 Nov 2002
Format:Paperback
Let's face it, most people won't be buying this volume by choice--they'll buy it for a class. Still, it's good to know what you're getting into. This is a pretty good anthology of American literature, starting all the way back with Native American myths and Columbus's journals and continuing through Puritan, Enlightenment, Transcendentalist, Romantic, and modern periods of literature in America.
The introductions to the pieces are good--as good or better than Norton's--and the selections themselves are generally good. Still, though, there are a few notable things missing, but that is to be expected in any compendium, I suppose.
One of the highlights of this volume is the full reprints of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. If you have to buy this book, it should be useful and may even be worth keeping around after the class is over. I know I'm going to keep mine.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Good book
7 July 2011
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Bought this book for a class that required the next edition up but it worked well for me and provided most of what I needed. What it didn't provide, which was very little, were provided through the class anyway. Glad I saved my money by purchasing this later edition.It also contains some interesting tidbits about past authors and some good old works that I enjoyed reading.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Good for College
20 Mar 2009
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This book definitely delivers what it promises. There are a number of key short stories, poems and other piece of work from some of the most influential authors in American history. It also includes background information of a given period in time, as well as introductions on each author. There are also key terms or phrases explained within the text, since some portions of a given work of literature may be confusing using today's language.
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