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Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now
Required Reading Why Our American Classics Matter Now
Author: Andrew Delbanco
In an age of uncertainty over what constitutes our common heritage, Andrew Delbanco reconsiders our greatest writers and how they enlarged our sense of American possibilities and the expressive range of our language. In superb chapters on Melville, Thoreau, Wharton, Richard Wright, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lincoln, and others, he shows how these w...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780374230074
ISBN-10: 0374230072
Publication Date: 9/1997
Pages: 225
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Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux (T)
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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