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English 2130: American Literature

Tennessee Williams

The Crucible

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Langston Hughes

Cooper, Floyd. Coming Home: from the Life of Langston Hughes. Philomel Books, 1994.

Miller, R. Baxter. Langston Hughes. Salem Press, 2013.

Bloom, Harold. Langston Hughes. Chelsea House, 1989.

Gates, et al. Langston Hughes: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Amistad: Distributed by Penguin USA, 1993.

Dace, and Dace, Letitia. Langston Hughes: the Contemporary Reviews. Cambridge University Press, 1997

Ostrom, Hans A., and Gale Group. Langston Hughes a Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne Publishers; Maxwell Macmillan Canada; Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993.

Perdomo, Willie., and Bryan Collier. Visiting Langston. 1st ed., Henry Holt and Co., 2002.

Hughes, Langston, and Donna A. Harper. “Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Later Simple Stories, Volume 8.” Collected Works of Langston Hughes, University of Missouri Press, 2002.

Hughes, et al. Short Stories [of] Langston Hughes. 1st pbk. ed., Hill and Wang, 1996.

Hughes, Langston, et al. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. 1st Vintage classics ed., Vintage Books, 1995.

Hughes, Langston. The Langston Hughes Reader: [the Selected Writings of Langston Hughes. G. Braziller, 1958.

Hughes, et al. The Return of Simple. 1st paperback ed., Hill and Wang, 1995.

Barnet, Sylvan. An Introduction to Literature : Fiction, Poetry, Drama. 11th ed., Longman, 1997.

The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature. 6th ed., Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003.

Search the Library Catalog for "Bedford Introduction to Literature" or "Norton Anthology". These books contain many stories from many authors.Use the index in the book to find the story or author you are researching.

Kate Chopin

Robert Frost

Emily Dickinson

Ferlazzo, Paul J., and Gale Group. Emily Dickinson. Twayne, 1976. 

Bouson, J. Brooks. Emily Dickinson. Salem Press, 2011. 

Barnet, Sylvan. An Introduction to Literature : Fiction, Poetry, Drama. 11th ed., Longman, 1997.

The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature. 6th ed., Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003.

Search the Library Catalog for "Bedford Introduction to Literature" or "Norton Anthology". These books contain many stories from many authors.Use the index in the book to find the story or author you are researching.

Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

Fences by August Wilson

Databases

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