Author:
Stegner, Wallace Earle, 1909- ed.
Imprint:New York : Basic Books, [1965]
Descriptionxiii, 236 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:"[Essays originally] designed ... for oral presentation over the Voice of America."
Note:James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers / Kay Seymour House. - Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter / David Levin. - Herman Melville, Moby Dick / Leon Howard. - John W. De Forest, Miss Ravenel's Conversion / Claude M. Simpson, Jr. - Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady / Richard Poirier. - Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Henry Nash Smith. - William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham / Robert Lee Hough. - Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage / John Berryman. - Frank Norris, McTeague: A Story of San Francisco / Carvel Collins. - Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie / Claude M. Simpson, Jr. - Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth / Richard Poirier. - Jack London, Martin Eden / Franklin Walker. - Willa Cather, My Antonia / Wallace Stegner. - Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio / Irving Howe. - Sinclair Lewis, Main Street / Daniel Aaron. - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby / Arthur Mizener. - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms / Carlos Baker. - Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel / Thomas C. Moser. - William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury / Carvel Collins.
Bibliography Note:Bibliographical footnotes and index.
