American Literature Selection: English-Chinese

Author: Tao Jie
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Publishing Date: 2002-01-01
Features: British and American Literature: A Reader is a college-level textbook for English majors, suitable for teacher training colleges, education departments, radio and television universities, and self-learners of English in society. The book primarily features works by important 20th-century American writers, while also including classics from the 18th and 19th centuries, covering various genres such as novels, poetry, drama, and essays. The book includes an introduction and main body. The former briefly introduces the history of American literature, major literary movements in each period, and representative writers and works. The main body consists of 21 units, each including five sections: "Author Introduction," "Analysis," "Selected Text," "Notes," and "Questions." If the selected text is an excerpt from a longer work, each unit also includes some famous quotes or aphorisms by the author.