American literature and literary classics (8)

	Books & Collectibles online bookstore and search engine for rare, out of print, antique and used books, maps and prints - Australia http://www.booksandcollectibles.com.au/ An American classic Classic American literature Antiques and Collectibles Books and Collectibles offer an all encompassing range of collectible books, maps, prints, records, CD's and ephemera from our huge online bookstore, backed by an online database that is constantly updated. American literature American literature could be divided into historic eras, such as colonial, revolutionary, civil war, world war, and contemporary. It could also be classified according to genre, such as poetry, theatre, comics, children's literature, and so on. Some of the earliest forms of American literature were pamphlets and writings extolling the benefits of the colonies to both a European and colonist audience. The religious disputes that prompted settlement in America were also topics of early writing. Other early writings described conflicts and interaction with the Indians. The revolutionary period contained political writings, as well as satirical writings. During the civil war period religious conversion, radical social reform and idealistic movements swept the land. The Transcendentalist school of literature and philosophy was spawned. Classic American literature Classic American colonial authors include the likes of Daniel Gookin, Jonathan Edwards and John Trumbull. Post- civil war classic literature includes authors such as William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, and Edgar Allan Poe. This generation of authors started to produce work more uniquely American, rather than imitations of European forms and styles. Humorous writers included Seba Smith, while Davy Crockett and Joseph G Baldwin wrote about the American frontier. Ralph Waldo Emerson's (1803-1882) works began the transcendentalist movement. Abolitionism inspired writers such as Harriet Beecher and William Lloyd Garrison. Other classic authors include Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote The Scarlet Letter (1850), and Herman Melville who wrote Moby Dick (1851). Featuring a sophisticated book search engine, we source rare, used and out of print books from all over the world. Based in Australia, our service offers you the opportunity to search the stock of book stores worldwide. Click here for more information on our products and services...
	American Literature http://americanliterature.dukejournals.org/ American Literature has been regarded since its inception as the preeminent periodical in its field. Each issue contains articles covering the works of several American authors—from colonial to contemporary—as well as an extensive book review section; a “Brief Mention” section offering citations of new editions and reprints, collections, anthologies, and other professional books; and an “Announcements” section that keeps readers up-to-date on prizes, competitions, conferences, grants, and publishing opportunities. Membership in the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association includes the following: a one-year subscription to American Literature, a copy of the annual hardbound American Literary Scholarship, electronic access to current and back volumes of American Literature through a combination of HighWire Press and JSTOR, as well as electronic access to American Literary Scholarship, beginning with the 1998 edition, through HighWire Press.
	James McKimmey's Squeeze Play: An American Classic by Jason Starr http://www.allanguthrie.co.uk/ NOIR ZINE AND NEW WRITERS: An irregular ezine and author showcase, both dedicated to noir and hardboiled fiction. It seems like every few years a great noir novelist from the "Gold Medal era" of crime fiction is rediscovered for a new generation. During the eighties and nineties, James M. Cain, David Goodis, Jim Thompson, and Charles Willeford all had major revivals. The Black Lizard novels of the late eighties reminded us of the greatness of such writers as Paul Cain, Dan Marlowe, and Peter Rabe. Every few years, Harry Whittington's novels get renewed attention and, thanks to a few forthcoming film adaptations, Gil Brewer is set for a comeback. It's about time for the work of James McKimmey to get this same kind of treatment.
	American, British & World Literature Resources - AOL@SCHOOL http://www.aolatschool.com/students/books/american Get study guides, author profiles, background information and quizzes for some of the books on your required reading list. About AOL@SCHOOL Making the Internet More Powerful for Educators and Students A Safe, School-Focused Online Learning Tool While virtually all schools in the U.S. are now wired for the Internet, studies clearly indicate that educators are not certain how best to make use of the medium's vast educational resources. AOL@SCHOOL applies America Online's hallmark focus on convenience and ease-of-use to this dilemma, providing a variety of age-appropriate educational content, to make the Internet more powerful for teachers and students. Designed For Education, By Educators At every step of the design process, AOL@SCHOOL has worked -- and will continue to work -- with education professionals from every level to create and refine a product that is useful in turning the Internet into a meaningful part of their students' classroom experience. AOL@SCHOOL Search: A Specialized Search Engine Designed for Educational Use Ask students to search the Web for information using traditional online tools, and they'll get a list of thousands of sites with no guidance about the accuracy, reliability or value of the information on them. The heart of AOL@SCHOOL is a specially-configured search engine that returns manageable lists of prescreened sites that have been selected by online education experts. The quality and coverage of this search database are reviewed on a weekly basis and hundreds of new Web sites are added each month.
	BibliOz http://www.biblioz.com/ The books offered on this site are all generally secondhand and used, though many will also be in near new condition. Click on the book title in the search results to check the full description. Search millions of out-of-print books offered by thousands of booksellers all over the world. Enter search terms in one or more of the fields below and then click the GO button. Fewer terms entered will usually result in more results.
	Classic African American Literature http://www.edchange.org/ EdChange is dedicated to equity and justice in schools and society. We act to shape schools, organizations, and communities in which the full diversity of people have opportunities to live, learn, and thrive free from oppression. Classic African American Literature: The Color Line by Frederick Douglas; The Christian Slave by Harriet Beecher Stowe; The Education of Freedmen, part 1 by Harriet Beecher Stowe; The Education of Freedmen, part 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe; The Effects of Negro Suffrage by H.H. Chalmers; Franklin County: The Diary of Rachel Cormany; The Free Colored People of North Carolina by Charles W. Chesnutt; Friction Between the Races: Causes and Cure by Sutton E. Griggs...
	Penguin Classics http://www.penguinclassics.com.au/ Publishers of literary, fiction, reference, autobiography, academic and classic books. Before 1946 ‘classics’ were mainly the domain of students and academics, without good, readable editions for everyone else. Penguin had previously dabbled in what were regarded as classics, with a batch of ten books published in 1935 that included Samuel Butler’s Erewhon, and a 1938 series of ten Illustrated Classics including Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, but with little success. Now, with Penguin Classics, Modern Classics and Red Classics, this world famous series consists of over 1,200 titles ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. And it is still just as committed to making the widest range of the best books from around the world available to millions, in editions that are up to date, authoritative and readable – and constantly redefining the idea of what makes a ‘classic’. Continual film and television adaptations of classic books show that the desire for the best literature of several thousand years and countless cultures is stronger than ever.
	The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 6e : W. W. Norton College Books http://www.wwnorton.com/ The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 6e : W. W. Norton College Books Leading the field with over 1,640 college and university adoptions worldwide, the Sixth Edition builds on the classroom strengths of flexibility, depth, and balance in a strong revision and a new, more portable and readable format. There are several anthologies of American Literature. Only one is a Norton. "From the inception of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, three goals have been paramount: first, to present a variety of works rich and substantial enough to enable teachers to build their own courses according to their own ideals; second, to make the anthology self-sufficient by featuring many works in their entirety and longer selections so that individual authors can be covered in depth; and third, to balance traditional interests with developing critical concerns." —Nina Baym, General Editor, from the Preface

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