This 1995 volume of critical essays on Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's explosive first novel, not...

New Essays on Walden reviews Thoreau's classic from four important perspectives. Lawrence Buell e...

My Antonia is undoubtedly Willa Cather's most famous novel. It is also her most autobiographical ...

The introduction to this volume outlines the critical history of the novel from the moralising re...

James Baldwin's first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, has gained a wide readership and much cr...

Thomas Pynchon's novel, The Crying of Lot 49, is widely recognized as a significant contemporary ...

The essays collected in this volume, first published in 1995, are written by leading critics of T...

First published in 1895, The Red Badge of Courage found immediate success and brought its author ...

The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) established William Dean Howells's reputation in the annals of Am...

The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway's first novel and is widely considered to be the most imp...

The introduction to this volume charts the fortunes of The Great Gatsby from its mixed reception ...

While William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury met with only limited success when published in 1...