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A survey of American literature from its 16th-century origins to its flourishing present, this sixth edition offers the work of 242 writers - 30 newly included - representing the extraordinary wealth and diversity of American literature. Among the many works included in their entirety are Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter , Thoreau's Walden , Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave , Clemens's Huckleberry Finn , Chopin's The Awakening , Faulkner's As I Lay Dying , Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire , Larsen's Quicksand , Ginsberg's Howl , Mamet's Glengarry, Glen Ross and Parks's The America Play . Informative introductions, headnotes, footnotes and bibliographies accompany the text.
