This comprehensive guide covers major events in American literature, ranging from the 18th century to the 20th century. --Provided by publisher.

"Mark Twain's hilarity and irreverence shine through in this impeccably chosen collection."--

"This is the only authoritative text of this late novel. It reproduces the manuscript which Mark Twain wrote last, and the only one he finished or called the "The Mysterious Stranger." Albert Bigelow Paine's edition of the same name has been shown to be a textual fraud."--

"Kantor takes readers on a fascinating tour through great literature in all its politically incorrect glory. She includes a syllabus and a guide to the English literature education most people were denied in school."--Amazon.com.

No other book has captured the themes of adolescent longing and confusion quite like J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (1951)-and no other reference tool can help you further explore this literary classic quite like our newest 3-panel (6-page) guide. All of the book's important themes, characters, and events are listed and discussed at length; in addition, an easy-to-use format allows you to quickly refer back to the original text when necessary....

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is often considered to be Mark Twain's masterpiece among his many novels. With that said, our jam-packed, comprehensive 3-panel (6 page) guide enables students and literary scholars alike to delve more into the world of Huck, Jim, Tom Sawyer and Twain's other colorful characters. Chapter summaries and character descriptions, as well as examinations of the many themes running throughout the book, are provided in an...

"Deviating from the romanticism of earlier works, American literature that emerged after the mid-19th century adopted a distinct realism and an often critical view of American society. With penetrating analyses, writers such as Henry Adams and Upton Sinclair exposed fundamental flaws in government and industry, while Mark Twain and H.L. Mencken incisively satirized social ills such as prejudice and intolerance. Readers will encounter these and other...

"This superb anthology brings together some of the most powerful and compelling writing about the Grand Canyon-stories, essays, and poems written across five centuries by people inhabiting, surviving, and attempting to understand what one explorer called the "Great Unknown." The Grand Canyon Reader includes traditional stories from native tribes, reports by explorers, journals by early tourists, and contemporary essays and stories by such beloved...

"These unjustly neglected works, among the most enjoyable of Mark Twain's novels, follow Tom, Huck, and Jim as they travel across the Atlantic in a balloon, then down the Mississippi to help solve a mysterious crime. Both with the original illustrations by Dan Beard and A.B. Frost."Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? No, he wasn't. It only just pisoned him for more." So Huck declares at the start of these once-celebrated...