Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now
- ISBN-10
- 0374230072
- ISBN-13
- 9780374230074
- Series
- Required Reading
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 225
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Author
- Andrew Delbanco
Description
Essays discuss nineteenth and twentieth century American literature, from Henry Adams to Zora Neale Hurston
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Other editions
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- 1998
- 221 pages
- Paperback
- Univ of Massachusetts Press
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- 1988
- 299 pages
- Paperback
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now
By Andrew DelbancoShows why our classic American writers remain dispensable, even in an age of uncertainty over what our common heritage is.