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Twenty-five Books That Shaped America

Twenty-five Books That Shaped America

How White Whales, Green Lights, And Restless Spirits Forged Our National Identity

by Thomas C. Foster
Paperback
Publication Date: 20/10/2017

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From the author of the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes a highly entertaining and informative book on the twenty-five works of literature that have most shaped the American character.

Thomas C. Foster applies his much-loved combination of wit, know-how, and analysis to explain how each work has shaped our very existence as readers, students, teachers, and Americans. He illuminates how books such as The Last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick, My Antonia, The Great Gatsby, The Maltese Falcon, Their Eyes Were Watching God, On the Road, The Crying of Lot 49, and others captured an American moment, how they influenced our perception of nationhood and citizenship, and what about them endures in the American character. Twenty-five Books That Shaped America is a fun and enriching guide to America through its literature.
ISBN:
9780061834400
9780061834400
Category:
Literature: history & criticism
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
20-10-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
352
Dimensions (mm):
204x136x23mm
Weight:
0.26kg
Thomas C. Foster

Thomas C. Foster, author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor and Reading the Silver Screen, is professor emeritus of English at the University of Michigan, Flint, where he taught classes in contemporary fiction, drama, and poetry, as well as creative writing and freelance writing. The author of several books on 20th-century British and Irish literature and poetry.

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