A Gravestone Made of Wheat is a poignant and lyrical story of land, love, and
the American immigrant experience. Now an award-winning indie film distributed by 20th Century Fox. Available everywhere on DVD. http://www.sweetlandmovie.com/ Excerpted from the paperback original, Sweet ...
In 1909, the Champlain and Hudson Valleys-and America and the world along with them-celebrated the
300th anniversary of European discoveryof these regions. Marking America's entry onto the world stage, the 1909commemorations' parades, pageants, speeches and other spectacles prophetically mapped the ...
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies -
Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Freiburg, course: 20th Century American Short Story, 2 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Death is a major theme ...
The snares of the world were its ways of sin. He would fall.Fallen is a
collection of short fiction featuring stories of character, humor, military service, personal relationships and history in locales ranging from New York to L.A., from the ...
Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit,
merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters.Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda ...
Embracing a wide variety of subjects, this choice collection of 13 short stories represents the
work of an elite group of American women writing in the 19th and earthly 20th centuries. The earliest stories are Rebecca Harding Davis' naturalistic Life ...
Forty-nine short stories, selected for their richness of detail, accurate depictions of human passion, and
international scope, fill this collection. The authors include Americans such as Hemingway, Faulkner, Saul Bellow, and Flannery O'Connor, 19th and 20th century Western European giants ...
This bilingual anthology reflects the geographic and cultural diversity of the Spanish-speaking world. Encompassing the
literary traditions of Central America, South America, and Spain, the stories range in mood from comic and ironic to gritty and fantastical. Featured authors include ...