American Novels | Great American Novel

+ Click on image to enlarge. Eliza s escape across the Ohio River, which is filled with great cakes of floating ice,is among the most dramatic…

The graphic novel, which Stanford students researched, wrote and illustrated, focuses on the life and times of a Chinese American man who dedicated…

Contemporary Classic Novels: An Annotated Bibliography – Andrew

I hate Catcher in the Rye: a novel about a privileged Upper East Side kid who doesn’t like exclusive prep schools and has a fun day at various…

Why They’re Here: Punk-pop rarely gets as crafty or ambitious as this Wisconsin trio, who spike their churning crunch with unexpected chord changes…

On a lovely day in May, 1868, Christopher Newman, a wealthy American businessman, sits down in the Louvre with an aesthetic headache, having…

Little affected my writing life quite like the discovery of an essay by Anne Carson, back in 1989, called “Kinds of Water, ” collected in The…

Value: 0.5 course units / 30 MA credits MA module code: GERMG028 Tutor: Reinier van Straten Teaching structure: Assessment for GERM4133: one…

Presentation Reading is good for you! It is no surprise to learn…

Epic Is a novel written by Conor Kostick. It is the first book in the follows the life of a boy named Erik Haraldson and his involvement in a…

Published last week, The Library of America’s two-volume collection Women Crime Writers of the 1940s and 50s has already won praise from the…

First it was The Guardian, choosing the 100 greatest novels of all time and getting around to the first American, Nathaniel Hawthorne, at No…

When Herman Melville died in 1891, his death was noted in only one local newspaper, which carried a brief description of the long forgotten…

A new poll released today reveals that—shocker!—the Bible remains Americans favorite book. It’s always a bit presumptuous to outline any kind…

Back in Black is the fifth novel in the series by Zoey Dean. It was released in 2005 through Megan Tingley Publishers. Plot summary [edit] The…