The Best American Essays of the Century (The Best American Series)

The Best American Essays of the Century (The Best American Series)

This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America’s tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group of works that are both intimate and important, essays that move from personal experience to larger significance without severing the connection between speaker and audience. From Ernest Hemingway covering bullfights in Pamplona to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” these essays fit, in the words of Joyce Carol Oates, “into a kind of mobile mosaic suggest[ing] where we’ve come from, and who we are, and where we are going.” Among those whose work is included are Mark Twain, John Muir, T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Tom Wolfe, Susan Sontag, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Joan Didion, Cynthia Ozick, Saul Bellow, Stephen Jay Gould, Edward Hoagland, and Annie Dillard.

  • UPC: 046442155878
  • ASIN: 0618155872
  • ISBN: 0618155872
  • Brand: Mariner Books
  • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Best American Essays 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

The Best American Essays 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

The Pulitzer–Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing “the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads culture, race, and gender” (New York Times) to the task. “The essay, like love, like life, is indefinable, but you know an essay when you see it, and you know a great one when you feel it, because it is concentrated life,” writes Hilton Als in his introduction. Expertly guided by Als’s instinct and intellect, The Best American Essays 2018 showcases great essays as well as irresistibly eclectic ones. Go undercover in North Korea, delve into the question of race in the novels of William Faulkner, hang out in the 1970s New York music scene, and take a family road trip cum art pilgrimage. These experiences and more immersive slices of concentrated life await.  

  • ASIN: B07899QTGG
  • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Four Centuries of American Art Sheet of 20 32 Cent Stamps Scott 3236

Four Centuries of American Art Sheet of 20 32 Cent Stamps Scott 3236

1998 Four Centuries of American Art stamps 32 cents

  • UPC: 697597639913
  • ASIN: B002WWLZIA
  • Brand: USPS
  • Manufacturer: USPS

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Saroyan, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Cynthia Ozick, and scores of others. These are the writers who have shaped and defined the landscape of the American short story, who have unflinchingly explored all aspects of the human condition, and whose works will continue to speak to us as we enter the next century. Their artistry is represented splendidly in these pages. THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES series has also always been known for making literary discoveries, and discovery proved to be an essential part of selecting the stories for this volume too. Collections from years past yielded a rich harvest of surprises, stories that may have been forgotten but still retain their relevance and luster. The result is a volume that not only gathers some of the most significant stories of our century between two covers but resurrects a handful of lost literary gems as well. Of all the great writers whose work has appeared in the series, only John Updike's contributions have spanned five consecutive decades, from his first appearance, in 1959. Updike worked with coeditor Katrina Kenison to choose stories from each decade that meet his own high standards of literary quality.

  • UPC: 046442843676
  • ASIN: 0395843677
  • ISBN: 0395843677
  • Brand: Mariner Books
  • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Best American Noir of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

The Best American Noir of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

  • ASIN: B005LVR786
  • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

American Animals

American Animals

  • ASIN: B07DD6WNTN

The Americans Reconstruction to the 21st Century: California Edition

The Americans Reconstruction to the 21st Century: California Edition

2003 McDougal Littell The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century California Edition (CA)(H) by Gerald A. Danzer, J. Jorge Klor de Alva, Larry S. Krieger, Louis E. Wilson, & Nancy Woloch ***ISBN-13: 9780618184163 ***118 Pages

  • ASIN: 0618184163
  • ISBN: 0618184163
  • Brand: Brand: McDougal Littell / Houghton Mifflin
  • Manufacturer: McDougal Littell / Houghton Mifflin

Black American Short Stories: A Century of the Best (American Century Series)

Black American Short Stories: A Century of the Best (American Century Series)

The success of John Henrik Clarke's American Negro Short Stories, first published in 1966, affirmed the vitality and importance of black fiction. Now this expanded edition of that best-selling book, with a new title, offers the reader thirty-one stories included in the original―from Charles W. Chesnutt and Paul Laurence Dunbar in the late nineteenth century to the rich and productive work of the Harlem Renaissance: writers like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright; the World War II accomplishments of Chester Himes, Frank Yerby, and many others; and the later fiction of James Baldwin, Paule Marshall, and LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka). Seven additional contributions round out a century of great stories with the work of Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Eugenia Collier, Jennifer Jordan, James Allan McPherson, Rosemarie Robotham, and Alice Walker. Dr. Clarke has included a new introduction to this 1993 edition, and a short biography of each contributor.

  • ASIN: 0374523541
  • ISBN: 0374523541
  • Brand: Hill and Wang
  • Manufacturer: Hill and Wang

The Americans Season 3

The Americans Season 3

DVD

  • UPC: 024543104575
  • ASIN: B00T6KIRLO
  • Brand: 20th Century Fox
  • Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox

American Bandstand's Greatest Hits of the Century: 60s

American Bandstand's Greatest Hits of the Century: 60s

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  • UPC: 603211100622
  • ASIN: B0000DEM44
  • Manufacturer: Traditions Alive Co.