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Notable American Novelists, 3-Vol. Set (Magill's Choice) by Carl Edmund Rollyson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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This new edition of Notable American Novelists presents biographical sketches and analytical overviews of 145 of the best-known American and Canadian writers of long fiction from the 19th and 20th centuries, arranged alphabetically by name. The set's three volumes survey the novelists whose works are included in core curricula of high school and undergraduate literature studies. The essays in this set first appeared in the first edition of Notable American Novelists and in Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Second Revised Edition (2000). Essays on living authors are being updated, and all the bibliographies in the articles will be updated. About two-thirds of the essays will be illustrated with portraits of the writers. Notable American Novelists features often-studied writers ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Jack London to Joan Didion and J. D. Salinger. Other important nineteenth century figures include Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and George Washington Cable. Among the other major twentieth century writers featured are Sinclair Lewis, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, John Irving, E. L. Doctorow
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- Author
- Carl Edmund Rollyson
- Publisher
- Salem Press, Incorporated
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781587654107
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Memoir, Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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