In her biography of her father, Mark Twain's daughter Olivia recalls watching her mother mark pages of the Huckleberry Finn manuscript to be excised for obscenity. This volume, part of a series that b
Following the format of the series, this volume presents entries on 27 notable American playwrights written by scholars of their works, with lengthy summaries of the plays and films and their receptio
Critic Stark Young balances the spare work of Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms with the energy of the adaptation by Laurence Stallings, to the benefit of the latter. Leslie Fiedler call's out Wi
Covering well-known French writers of the Enlightenment such as, in this volume, Denis Diderot, as well as lesser known figures such as Pierre Bayle, this dictionary by Spencer (Auburn U.) contains 42
This volume presents career biographies of more than 50 Asian American writers. It reviews the accomplishments of such major authors as short story writer Toshio Mori, novelist Amy Tan, and poet Alber
Among the writers profiled, the individual and the state is a consistent theme, according to editor Rydel (Grand Valley State University), whether the subject is the war, the Great Terror, the gulag e
Part of a series of reference works for high school libraries designed to provide descriptions of major people and events as well as daily life within the culture, this volume provides clearly written
For most of the century "serious literature" has been sharply distinguished from "popular fiction," the former being characterized by its best examples, and the latter, unfortunately, by its worst. As
British writers volumes 1-7 and Supplement I were published originally by the British Council as a series of individual pamphlets, which were revised, updated, and re-edited for publication as a set
