An innovative pairing of Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock, showing them to be at once classic and contemporary

Here is an intriguing blend of literary and nonliterary writing from such well-known figures as Thomas Jefferson, Margaret Fuller, Black Hawk, Caroline Kirkland, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, and Abraham Lincoln.

A new, comprehensive collection of writings from the American Renaissance

Collects in one volume the most outstanding and representative works from Frederick Douglass's fifty year writing career, including the classic texts Narrative of the Life of an American Slave (1845), and The Heroic Slave (1853) in their entirety, as well as notable examples of Douglass's journalism, oratory, and fiction. Offers the most complete, diverse, and personally revealing account available of nineteenth-century black America's most celebrated writer.

America's workers have been singing, reciting, performing, telling stories, writing, and publishing for more than three centuries. Ranging from early colonial times to the present, this groundbreaking anthology presents more than 300 literary texts that exemplify this tradition.

Ranging from the colonial era to the birth of the new republic, Early American Writings includes more than 170 writers who represent the great diversity of interests and peoples of the era as well as the range of cultural references early American readers experienced.

An accessible guide and comprehensive overview to the widely read and widely taught canonical author, complete with an up-to-date bibliography and illustrated chronology.

Here is the modern American short story in all its diversity, featuring marvelous selections by Raymond Carver, John Cheever, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Ernest J. Gaines, Jamaica Kincaid, Bharati Mukherjee, Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, and many others.

First truly comprehensive survey of 20th-century American poetry