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Nonfiction classics for students : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on nonfiction works / Elizabeth Thomason, Jennifer Smith, David Galens, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Galens, David, Author.
- Series:
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nonfiction novel--History and criticism.
- Nonfiction novel.
- Prose literature--Bio-bibliography.
- Prose literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (5 volumes) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, 2001-2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Provides critical overviews on the most frequently studied nonfiction essays, books, biographies, and memoirs. Includes discussions of literary format, themes, and structure.
- Contents:
- vol. 1. Angela's ashes / Frank McCourt
- Aspects of the novel / E. M. Forster
- Black boy / Richard Wright
- Darkness visible / William Styron
- The education of Henry Adams / Henry Brooks Adams
- The journalist and the murderer / Janet Malcolm
- Lindbergh / A. Scott Berg
- The making of the atomic bomb / Richard Rhodes
- My brother / Jamaica Kincaid
- Paula / Isabel Allende
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek / Annie Dillard
- A preface to morals / Walter Lippmann
- Silent spring / Rachel Carson
- The souls of Black folk / W. E. B. Du Bois
- A study of history / Arnold J. Toynbee.
- vol. 2. Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl / Anne Frank
- Cadillac desert: the American West and its disappearing water / Marc Reisner
- Design for dying / Timothy Leary
- The double helix / James D. Watson
- Eleanor Roosevelt, volume one, 1884-1933 / Blanche Wiesen Cook
- Good-bye to all that / Robert Graves
- I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou
- In cold blood / Truman Capote
- Madame Curie / Eve Curie
- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself / Frederick Douglass
- Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen
- Profiles in courage / John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf
- The story of my life / Helen Keller
- Undaunted courage / Stephen E. Ambrose.
- vol. 3. The affluent society / John Kenneth Galbraith
- Autobiographies / William Butler Yeats
- The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X
- Backlash: the undeclared war against American women / Susan Faludi
- Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody
- Hunger of memory: the education of Richard Rodriguez / Richard Rodriguez
- The interpretation of dreams / Sigmund Freud
- I remain in darkness / Annie Ernaux
- I will bear witness: a diary of the Nazi years, 1933-1941 / Victor Klemperer
- News of a kidnapping / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Operating instructions / Anne Lamott
- Self-reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Shadow and act / Ralph Ellison
- A theory of justice / John Rawls
- Walden / Henry David Thoreau.
- vol. 4. The American language / H. L. Mencken
- The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas / Gertrude Stein
- The autobiography of Mark Twain / Mark Twain
- Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia / Rebecca West
- The diary of Samuel Pepys / Samuel Pepys
- Elizabeth the Great / Elizabeth Jenkins
- Eminent Victorians / Lytton Strachey
- The Gnostic gospels / Elaine Pagels
- In the American grain / William Carlos Williams
- Kaffir boy: the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in apartheid South Africa / Mark Mathabane
- Night / Elie Wiesel
- Notes of a native son / James Baldwin
- On growth and form / D'Arcy Thompson
- The promise of American life / Herbert Croly
- Speak, memory: an autobiography revisited / Vladimir Nabokov.
- vol. 5. Art and illusion: a study in the psychology of pictorial representation / E. H. Gombrich
- The basketball diaries / Jim Carroll
- A boy called H / Kappa Senoh
- Bury my heart at Wounded Knee / Dee Brown
- The elements of style / William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White
- The feminine mystique / Betty Friedan
- The golden bough / James Frazer
- The liars' club / Mary Karr
- The lost daughters of China / Karin Evans
- A mathematician's apology / G. H. Hardy
- Selected essays, 1917-1932 / T. S. Eliot
- Shame / Annie Ernaux
- Steal this book / Abbie Hoffman
- The varieties of religious experience / William James.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- OCLC:
- 62163743
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