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American Literature of The XXth Century
[1900-2000]
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short history |
There are half a dozen 'Best 100 List' pages here at Spirit of America Bookstore, and it was fun coding those pages: I learned a lot. But the real purpose of such pages is presenting to the visitor works of fiction and of non-fiction, and even of poetry, that are considered important. Now it is my turn!
This page of books that I say qualify as 'American Literature' of the XXth Century is paired with a similar page for the XIXth Century.
(For the XXIst Century, go here.)
TIME Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels Page = 29 from the XXth Century
Amazon's '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime' Pages = 19 books + 16 duplicates
The Telegraph of U.K.'s List of Best 100 Novels Page = 2 books + 10 duplicates
The B.B.C.'s Top 100 Books List Page = 1 book + 13 duplicates
Top 100+ Children's Books Page = 2 books + 5 duplicates
Spirit of America Bookstore's Authors Pages = 8 books + 45 authors
Spirit of America Bookstore's Great Books & Great Authors Page = 5 authors
PBS's 'The Great American Read' Project of 2018
Spirit of America Bookstore's The Harvard Classics [1909] Page
150 Essential Mystery Novels Page at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
100 Classic Books Made Into Films Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
TIME Magazine's 100+ Top Movies Pages at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
short history, maybe
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American Literature Dept. at Wikipedia
Classic American Literature catalog {returns 6,600 titles} at Amazon
U.S literature catalog {returns 296,700 titles} at Amazon
Works About American Lit
 | "A College Book of American Literature" [1939] by Milton Ellis, Louise Pound & George Weida Spohn Briefer Course: American Book Company 3rd edition hardcover [1965] out of print/used Briefer Course: American Book Company 2nd edition hardcover [1949] out of print/used Briefer Course: American Book Company 9½x6¾ hardcover [1940] out of print/used |
 | "Cavalcade of The American Novel: From The Birth of The Nation To The Middle of The Twentieth Century" [1952] by Edward Wagenknecht "This may well be regarded by scholars and laymen alike as a definitive book on the American novel. Scholars will particularly value the conscientious bibliography and the rewarding appendices." ~~ Kirkus Reviews Henry Holt & Co. pb [6/52] out of print/used Holt, Rinehart & Winston hardcover [1963] out of print/used Henry Holt & Co. 9x6 hardcover [6/52] out of print/used |
 | "100 Great American Novels: Plot Outlines Author Biographies Critical and Historical Data" [1966] Edited by Albert H. Morehead, Harold J. Blum, and others Signet New American Library mass pb [1966] out of print/used Signet New American Library mass pb [1966] out of print/used |
 | "Sixteen Short Novels: An Anthology" [1985] Selected & with An Introduction by Wilfrid Sheed E.P. Dutton & Co./Vintage 9¼x6 hardcover [1985] for $11.45 Dutton Adult hardcover [1/86] for $14.95 sixteen novellas or short stories from world literature: "The Fall" [1956] by Albert Camus [1913-60]; "My Mortal Enemy" [1926] by Willa Cather [1873-1947]; "Ward No. 6" [1892 story] by Anton Chekhov [1860-1904]; "Youth" [1898] by Joseph Conrad [1857-1924]; "Notes From The Underground" [1864] by Fyodor Dostoevsky [1821-81]; "Old Man" [1939] by William Faulkner [1897-1962]; "The Ebony Tower" [1974] by John Fowles [1926-2005]; "The Lesson of The Master" [1888] by Henry James [1843-1916]; "Mario and The Magician" [1929] by Thomas Mann [1875-1955]; "Catholics" [1972] by Brian Moore [1921-99]; "Andrea" [1966 story] by John O'Hara [1905-70]; "The Ghost Writer" [1979] by Philip Roth [1933-2018]; "The Blacking Factory" [1968] by editor Sheed [1930-2011]; "Tortilla Flat" [1935] by John Steinbeck [1902-68]; "Pudd'nhead Wilson" [1894] by Mark Twain [1835-1910]; and "The Old Maid" [1924] by Edith Wharton [1862-1937] |
 | "Six Memos For The Next Millennium (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1985-86)" [1988] by Italo Calvino [1923-85], Translated by Patrick Creagh Calvino died suddenly before writing the 6th lecture; the five lecture topics are: Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, and Multiplicity; all that is known of the sixth lecture is that it was to be on Consistency book entry at Wikipedia Vintage 8x5¼ pb [8/93] out of print/60+ used Vintage pb [8/93] for $29.18 Harvard Univ Press 8½x6 hardcover [1988] out of print/many used new translation by Geoffrey Brock Kindle Edition from Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [8/2016] for $9.99 Mariner Books 8x5¼ pb [8/2016] for $13.95 |
"From Puritanism To Postmodernism: A History of American Literature" [12/1992] by Richard Ruland & Malcolm Bradbury
http://www.amazon.com/Puritanism-Postmodernism-American-Literature-Routledge-ebook/dp/B01EAI17Z4/
 | "The Complete Idiot's Guide To American Literature" [1999] by Laurie E. Rozakis
Kindle Edition from Alpha/Penguin [1999 edition] for $11.99 Alpha Books 9x7¼ pb [8/99] out of print/many used featuring Julia Alvarez, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, beat poet Wm. S. Burroughs, Truman Capote, Denise Chαvez, John Cheever, Sandra Cisneros, James Fenimore Cooper, Stephen Crane, Countee Cullen, poet E.E. Cummings, poet Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Theodore Dreiser, T.S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louise Erdrich, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, poet Robert Frost, beat poet Allen Ginsberg, Mary Gordon, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Washington Irving, Henry James, Erica Jong, Jack Kerouac, Jamaica Kincaid, Stephen King, Maxine Hong Kingston, William Least Heat Moon, poet Vachel Lindsay, Jack London, Robert Lowell, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, |
| poet Edgar Lee Masters, Claude McKay, Herman Melville, N. Scott Momaday, Toni Morrison, Frank Norris, Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Ezra Pound, poet Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Rodriguez, Philip Roth, J.D. Salinger, poet Carl Sandburg, Anne Sexton, Leslie Marmon Silko, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John Steinbeck, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Amy Tan, Henry David Thoreau, James Thurber, Jean Toomer, Mark Twain, John Updike, Alice Walker, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Elie Wiesel, and Richard Wright - and a section about modern Canadian authors: Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Mavis Gallant, Stephen Leacock, Margaret Laurence, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Alfred Purdy, and Mordecai Richler |
"American Literature in Context After 1929" [8/2010] by Philip R. Yannella
http://www.amazon.com/American-Literature-Context-after-1929/dp/1405186003/
"The Vintage Book of American Women Writers" [1/2011] by Elaine Showalter
http://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Book-American-Women-Writers-ebook/dp/B004CFB044/
"A Brief History of American Literature" [3/2011] by Richard Gray
http://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-American-Literature-ebook/dp/B005FMLIKY/
 | "Twenty-five Books That Shaped America: How White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits Forged Our National Identity" [2011] by Thomas C. Foster Kindle Edition from HarperCollins e-books [5/2011] for $8.99 Harper Perennial 8x5¼ pb [5/2011] for $9.66 Harper Perennial 8x5¼ pb [5/2011] out of print/used Harper Perennial 8x5¼ pb [5/2011] out of print/many used the twenty-five books reported on are: "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" [1791]; "The Last of The Mohicans" [1826] by James Fenimore Cooper; "The Scarlet Letter" [1850] by Nathaniel Hawthorne; "Moby-Dick" [1851] by Herman Melville; "Walden" [1854] by Henry David Thoreau; "Leaves of Grass" [1855-92] by Walt Whitman; "Little Women" [1868] by Louisa May Alcott; "Huckleberry Finn" [1884] by Mark Twain; "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" [1900] by L. Frank Baum; "My Antonia" [1918] by Willa Cather; "The Weary Blues" [poem 1925] by Langston Hughes; "The Great Gatsby" [1925] by F. Scott Fitzgerald; "The Sun Also Rises" [1926] by Ernest Hemingway; "The Maltese Falcon" [1929] by Dashiell Hammett; "Their Eyes Were Watching God" [1937] by Zora Neale Hurston; "The Grapes of Wrath" [1939] by John Steinbeck; "The Adventures of Augie March" [1953] by Saul Bellow; "On The Road" [1957] by Jack Kerouac; "The Cat In The Hat" [1957] by Dr. Seuss; "To Kill A Mockingbird" [1960] by Harper Lee; "The Crying of Lot 49" [1966] by Thomas Pynchon; "Song of Solomon" [1977] by Toni Morrison; "Love Medicine" [1984] by Louise Erdrich; plus poetry by Robert Frost and a novel by William Faulkner |
"American Literature In Context From 1865 To 1929" [6/2011] by Philip R. Yannella
http://www.amazon.com/American-Literature-Context-1865-1929-ebook/dp/B005FMOL58/
"A History of American Literature: 1950 To The Present" [1/2013] by Linda Wagner-Martin
http://www.amazon.com/History-American-Literature-Wiley-Blackwell-Histories-ebook/dp/B00B9PQ856/
"Where Is American Literature?" [5/2013] by Caroline F. Levander
http://www.amazon.com/Where-American-Literature-Wiley-Blackwell-Manifestos-ebook/dp/B00CFHYMMI/
 | "The Cambridge Companion To Modern American Poetry" [2015] by Walter Kalaidjian Kindle Edition from Cambridge Univ Press [1/2015] for $14.60 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [1/2015] for $30.97 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [1/2015] for $72.32 {sic} |
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"Facing The Abyss: American Literature and Culture In The 1940s" [2018] by George Hutchinson Kindle Edition from Columbia Univ Press [1/2018] for $19.24 Columbia Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [2/2018] for $35.00 |
 | "The American Canon: Literary Genius From Emerson To Pynchon - Five Decades of Writing On American Literature by Harold Bloom" [2019] Edited by David Mikics
Library of America 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/2019] for $22.49 |
 | "The Dover Anthology of American Literature, Volume I: From The Origins Through The Civil War [2014] Edited by Bob Blaisdell includes short fiction, essays, speeches, verse, and memoirs by Chief Powhatan, poets Anne Bradstreet & Phillis Wheatley, preacher Jonathan Edwards, statesmen Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine & others, Lewis and Clark, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, poets Walt Whitman & Henry Wadsworth Long-fellow — and many other prominent Americans Kindle Edition from Dover Publns [9/2014] for $8.00 Dover Thrift Editions 8x5 pb [9/2014] for $10.00 |
 | "The Dover Anthology of American Literature, Volume II: From 1865 To 1922" [2014] Edited by Bob Blaisdell includes short fiction, essays, speeches, verse, and memoirs by Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, F. Scott Fitz-gerald, Henry James (short novel "Daisy Miller"), Jack London (short novel "The Call of The Wild"), Edith Wharton (short novel "Ethan Frome"), Sitting Bull, Theodore Roosevelt, Booker T. Washington, and Helen Keller — and many other prominent Americans Kindle Edition from Dover Publns [9/2014] for $8.00 Dover Thrift Editions 8x5 pb [9/2014] for $10.00 |
 | "The Dover Anthology of American Literature, Volume III: From 1923 To The Present" [2016] Edited by Bob Blaisdell includes short fiction, essays, speeches, verse, and memoirs by James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Eudora Welty, Jack Kerouac [1922-69], Raymond Carver, Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, August Wilson, E.E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Theodore Roethke, Richard Wilbur — and many other prominent Americans NOTE: not sure that book was actually published (2019) Dover Thrift Editions 8x5 pb [12/2017] out of print/SOLD OUT! |
Selected Books, A to Z
Classic American Literature catalog {returns 6,600 titles} at Amazon
U.S literature catalog {returns 296,700 titles} at Amazon
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"A Confederacy of Dunces" [1980] by John Kennedy Toole [1937-69]
book won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
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"A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire)" [1996]
by George R.R. Martin of Santa Fe, New Mexico
author entry at Wikipedia
book series entry at Wikipedia
Spirit of America Bookstore's "Game of Thrones" Novels & TV Page
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"A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" [1943] by Betty Smith [1896-1972]
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
also 1945 feature film and 1951 Broadway stageplay and 1974 TV movie
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"A Wrinkle In Time Quintet" book series by Madeleine L'Engle [1918-2007]
author entry at Wikipedia
book series entry at Wikipedia
"A Wrinkle In Time" [1962 kids classic]
novel entry at Wikipedia book won the Newbery Medal
"A Wind In The Door" [1973] ISBN
"A Swiftly Tilting Planet" [1978]
"Many Waters" [1986]
"An Acceptable Time" [1989]
more details (synopses, sequels, stageplays, books & ebooks, links, merchandise) on
Spirit of America Bookstore's "A Wrinkle In Time" Books & Movies Page
"A Wrinkle In Time" [Disney March 2018]
 | Location filming in New Zealand & California (Eureka, Los Angeles, Santa Clarita, San Pedro); directed by Ava DuVernay; screenplay by Jennifer Lee, based on the novel by Madeleine L'Engle; starring Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Storm Reid, Zach Galifianakis, Chris Pine DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia watch 11/2017 official trailer [2:24] at YouTube |
"The Age of Innocence" [1920] by Edith Wharton [1862-1937]
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451530888/
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 | "The American Idea: The Best of The Atlantic Monthly - 150 Years of Writers and Thinkers Who Shaped Our History" [2007] Edited by Robert Vare, with Daniel B. Smith Kindle Edition from Broadway Books/Random House [10/2008] for $4.99 Broadway Books 8¾x5½ pb [10/2008] out of print/many used Doubleday 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2007] out of print/50+ used includes FICTION by Saul Bellow ("Mr. Sammler's Planet" 11/1969), Ernest Hemingway ("Fifty Grand", 7/1927), Garrison Keillor ("Lake Wobegon Days", 8/1985), Vladimir Nabokov ("Cloud, Castle, Lake", 6/1941), Flannery O'Connor ("The Barber", 10/1970), Mark Twain ("A True Story", 11/1874) POEMS by Robert Frost ('Birches', 'The Road Not Taken', and 'The Sound of Trees', 8/1915), Julia Ward Howe ('Battle Hymn of The Republic', 2/1862), Stanley Kunitz ('The Wellfleet Whale', 11/1981), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ('Paul Revere's Ride', 1/1861), James Russell Lowell ('Ode To Lincoln', 9/1865), Robert Lowell ('For The Union Dead', |
| 11/1960), Walt Whitman ('Bardic Symbols', 4/1860) ARTICLES and OPINION by George Bancroft, Isaiah Berlin, Vannevar Bush, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Albert Einstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson ("American Civilization", 4/1862 & another), James Fallows, William Greider, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., William Dean Howells, William James, Randall Jarrell, Helen Keller (2), George F. Kennan, John F. Kennedy, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. ('Letter From Birmingham Jail', 8/1963), William Least Heat-Moon, Henry Demarest Lloyd, James Russell Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, George McGovern, John Muir, V.S. Naipaul, Reinhold Niebuhr, Theodore Roosevelt, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Alfred E. Smith, 'Studs' Terkel ("The Good War", 7/1984), Henry David Thoreau ("Walking", 6/1862), boxer Gene Tunney, Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, E.B. White, Garry Wills, Woodrow Wilson and ARTICLES on Charles Darwin, Joseph Stalin, Lyndon Johnson, Warren Buffett, Abraham Lincoln, and capitalism |
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"Atlas Shrugged" [1957 novel] by philosopher Ayn Rand [1905-82]
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
filmed in three parts, 2011-2014
"Atlas Shrugged" Novel & Movies Page
at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore
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"Babbitt" [1922] by Sinclair Lewis [1885-1951]
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
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"Beloved" [Knopf 2006] by Toni Morrison
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400033411/
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"The Big Sleep" [1939 first novel] by Raymond Chandler [1888-1959]
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
 | After elderly oil magnate General Sternwood hires P.I. Philip Marlowe to stop a man named Geiger from blackmailing Sternwood's wild daughter Carmen, Sternwood's other daughter Vivian quizzes Marlowe about whether he was hired to find her recently-missing ex-husband, Rusty Regan. The case also involves local gangster Eddie Mars, a pornography-on-loan racket, and the murder of Sternwood's chauffeur – after which things get kinda complicated.
Vintage 8x5 pb [8/92] for $8.80 Spanish-language edition "El Sueρo Eterno": Alianza pb [6/2005] for $12.95 audio read by Elliott Gould: New Millenium Audio CD [3/2002] for $27.96 |
  | 1946 b&w feature film directed by Howard Hawks Script by Leigh Brackett, William Faulkner & Jules Furthman; starring Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall; listed in National Film Registry (1997) Warner both-version b&w DVD [2/2000] for $6.87 Warner 114-min. b&w 'theatrical release' VHS [3/2000] for $14.95 Warner 135-min. b&w 1945 'pre-release version' VHS [3/2000] for $14.98 M.G.M./Warner 114-min. b&w VHS [9/99] for $2.49 M.G.M./Warner 114-min. b&w VHS [1/99] for $3.48 full credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailer [1:48] at YouTube purchase 'Big Sleep' movie posters & photos via AllPosters.com |
 | 1978 color feature film from United Artists Set in 1970s Britain; adapted & directed by Michael Winner; starring Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, Edward Fox, John Mills, James Stewart, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews, Colin Blakely, John Justin & Richard Todd Artisan color DVD [4/2002] out of prodn/used Pioneer color DVD [8/2000] out of prodn/used Artisan color VHS [11/99] for $9.98 full credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia |
"The Bridge of San Luis Rey" [1928] by Thornton Wilder [1897-1975]
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
novel won the Pulitzer Prize for The Novel in 1928
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_of_San_Luis_Rey_(1929_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_of_San_Luis_Rey_(1944_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_of_San_Luis_Rey_(2004_film)
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"The Call of The Wild" [1903] by Jack London [1876-1916]
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"Catch-22" [1961 bestseller] by Joseph Heller [1923-99]
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
 | Captain Yossarian tries desperately to get grounded so he will not have to fly any more bombing missions over Hitler's Europe: anyone who goes to war is crazy, but if he asks to be grounded for being crazy, then he's not crazy anymore and he has to keep flying 'catch 22'. A gut-wrenching satire.
Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [10/2010] for $8.80 S&S 8½x5¾ pb [4/2011] for $9.32 Everyman's Library 8½x5¼ hardcover [10/99] for $18.30 |
 | "Catch-22" feature film [Filmways/Paramount June 1970] Directed by Mike Nichols; screenplay by Buck Henry; all-star cast, including Alan Arkin, Buck Henry & Orson Welles Paramount widescreen color DVD [5/2013 for $5.97> Paramount widescreen color DVD [5/2001] for $11.99 Paramount color VHS [8/2001] for $9.95 full credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia |
"The Catcher In The Rye" [1951] by J.D. Salinger [1919-2010]
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
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"Charlotte's Web" [1952] by E.B. White [1899- 1985], Illustrated by Garth Williams [1912-96]
E.B. White entry at Wikipedia
Garth Williams entry at Wikipedia
book entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061124958/
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"The Color Purple" [1982] by Alice Walker
book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
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"Death of A Salesman" stageplay [1949] by Arthur Miller [1915-2005]
recipient of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Miller
http://www.ibdb.com/broadway-show/death-of-a-salesman-2999
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_Salesman
"Death of A Salesman" feature film [Columbia Pictures Dec 1951] /tt0043458/
starring Fredric March, Mildred Dunnock & Kevin McCarthy; nominated for five Oscars
also filmed in 1960, 1961, 1968; broadcast on TV twice in 1966 (CBS & BBC); broadcast as TV movies
in 1985 (Dustin Hoffman), 1996 & 2000
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"Dune" science fiction classic [1965] by Frank Herbert [1920-86]
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
Spirit of America Bookstore's
"Dune" Novels & Movies Page
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"East of Eden" [Viking Sept 1952] by John Steinbeck [1902-68]
Steinbeck considered "East of Eden" his greatest novel: "I think everything else I have written has been, in a sense, practice for this."
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
"Fahrenheit 451: A Novel" [1953] by Ray Bradbury [1920-2012]
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
"Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas: A Savage Journey To The Heart of The American Dream" [1971]
by gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson [1937-2005]
author entry at Wikipedia
book entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679785892/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas_(film)
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"From Here To Eternity" [1951 novel] by James Jones [1921-77]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jones_(author)
httphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Here_to_Eternity_(novel)
"From Here To Eternity" feature film [1953] starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift & Frank Sinatra
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045793/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Here_to_Eternity
won eight Academy Awards out of 13 nominations, including awards for Best Picture, Best Director (Fred Zinnemann),
Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actor (Frank Sinatra) and Supporting Actress (Donna Reed)
also filmed as a TV mini-series in 1979, 12-episode TV series in 1980, and as a British TV musical in 2014
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"Gentleman's Agreement" runaway bestseller novel [1947]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Z._Hobson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentleman%27s_Agreement_(novel)
"Gentleman's Agreement" [Nov 1947 film] starring Gregory Peck
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039416/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentleman%27s_Agreement
nominated for eight Oscars and won three: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm), and Best Director (Elia Kazan)
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"Go Tell It On The Mountain" [1953] by James Baldwin [1924-87]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Tell_It_on_the_Mountain_(novel)
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
"Go Tell It On The Mountain" TV movie [ABC-TV 1984]
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"Gone With The Wind" [1936] by Margaret Mitchell [1900-49]
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
filmed in 1939, non-Broadway musical in 1970, Broadway musical in 2008
"Gone With The Wind" Novel & Movie Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
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"The Grapes of Wrath" [Viking 1939] by John Steinbeck [1902-68]
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
book won the Pulitzer Prize for The Novel
"The Grapes of Wrath" Novel & Movie Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
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"The Great Gatsby" [Scribner's 1925] by F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940]
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
Spirit of America Bookstore's
"The Great Gatsby" 1925 Novel & Movies Page
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"The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter" [1940 first novel] by Carson McCullers [1917-67]
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heart_Is_a_Lonely_Hunter_(film)
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"The House of Mirth" [1905] by Edith Wharton [1862-1937]
Lily Bart craves luxury too much to marry for love. Scandal and sleeping pills ensue.
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Mirth_(1918_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Mirth_(TV_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Mirth_(2000_film)
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"In Cold Blood" [1966] 'true crime at its best' by Truman Capote
author entry at Wikipedia
book entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679745580/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Cold_Blood_(film)
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"Infinite Jest" [1996] by David Foster Wallace [1962-2008]
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
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"Invisible Man" [1952] by Ralph Ellison [1914-94]
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
won the National Book Award in 1953
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679732764/
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"The Jungle: The Lie of The American Dream" [1906]
by Upton Sinclair [1878-1968]
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
"What Uncle Tom's Cabin did for black slaves, The Jungle has a large chance to do for the white slaves of today."
Jack London [1876-1916]
 | Sinclair investigated conditions at the meat-packing plants and slums of Chicago and decided that the best way to expose the situation was with a novel. The book was published in February 1906 by Doubleday, Page & Company and caused a sensation; within months, President Theodore Roosevelt got laws passed establishing health & sanita-tion standards for meat processors. Sinclair was disappointed that the labor & personal health issues were not addressed, and later commented that he "aimed at the public's heart and by accident hit its stomach."
B&N Classics pb [9/2003] for $4.95 Bantam Classics pb [10/81] for $5.95 Chelsea House 9¼x6¼ pb [7/2002] for $14.67 Chelsea House 9½x6¼ hardcover [12/2001] for $37.95 Turtleback Books 7¼x4 library hardcover [8/2001] for $11.16 Blackstone UNABR audio [10/94] for $78.94 |
available as free online etext at Internet Archive
available as free digital ebook at Internet Archive
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"The Land of Little Rain" stories & essays [1903 classic] by Mary Hunter Austin [1868-1934]
author entry at Wikipedia
book entry at Wikipedia
1950 Ansel Adams abridged edition
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"Little House On The Prairie" [1935] by Laura Ingalls Wilder [1867-1957]
author entry at Wikipedia
book series entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
 | "Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House Books" [ages 7-12; 2012] Volume 1 Edited by Caroline Fraser Library of America 8x5 hardcover [8/2012] for $26.77 includes "Little House In The Big Woods" [1932], "Farmer Boy" [1933], "Little House On The Prairie" [1935], and "On The Banks of Plum Creek" [1937] Volume 2 Edited by Caroline Fraser Library of America 8x5 hardcover [8/2012] for $27.88 includes "By The Shores of Silver Lake" [1939], "The Long Winter" [1940], "Little Town On The Prairie" [1941], "These Happy Golden Years" [1943], and "The First Four Years" [1971] "The Little House Books Collection" [2012] Library of America slipcover 8½x5½ hardcover set [8/2012] 2 volumes for $50.03 |
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"Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott" [1920] by Sinclair Lewis [1885-1951]
author entry at Wikipedia
novel entry at Wikipedia
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"Mourning Becomes Electra" stageplay trilogy [1931]
by Eugene O'Neill [1888-1953]
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filmed in 1947, opera in 1967, TV mini-series in 1978
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"Naked Lunch" [Olympia 1959] by beat poet Wm. S. Burroughs [1914-97]
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"Native Son" [1940] by Richard Wright [1908-60]
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"Of Mice and Men" [Feb 1937 novel] by John Steinbeck [1902-68]
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1939 b&w movie [Hal Roach Studios / United Artists] Directed by Lewis Milestone; starring Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele & Noah Beery Jr.; nominated for Oscars for Best Picture, Best Music (Aaron Copland), Best Sound Image Ent b&w DVD [3/2001] for $7.38 Image Ent b&w VHS [3/2001] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia |
 | 1992 M.G.M. color movie Directed by & co- starring Gary Sinise; also starring John Malkovich, Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko, Sherilyn Fenn & John Terry MGM/UA widescreen color DVD [11/2001] for $40.67 MGM/UA color VHS [10/93] for $10.22 full credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Old Yeller" children's novel [1956] by Fred Gipson [1908-73]
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Disney feature film in 1957; won Newbery Honor in 1957
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"On The Road" Beat novel [October 1957] by Jack Kerouac [1922-69]
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celebrating 50th anniversary of 'On The Road' in Paris, France [Sept 2007]
Jack Kerouac Reads from 'On The Road' (1959 Steve Allen Show) [5:44] on YouTube
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"Our Town" meta-theatrical three-act stageplay [1938]
by Thornton Wilder [1897-1975]
won 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Town
http://www.ibdb.com/broadway-show/our-town-6845
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton_Wilder
"Our Town" feature film [1940] /tt0032881/
nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture
performed on radio in 1939 & 1940, broadcast on TV in 1955, 1977 & 1989, also adapted as an opera and a ballet
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"Play It As It Lays" [1970] by Joan Didion [b. 1934]
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"Portnoy's Complaint" [1969] by Philip Roth [1933-2018]
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679756450/
filmed in 1972, starring Richard Benjamin & Karen Black
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"Rabbit, Run: A Novel" [1960] by John Updike [1932-2009]
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"Ragtime" [1975] by E.L. Doctorow [1931-2015]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragtime_(film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragtime_(musical) 1998
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"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" [1903] by Kate Douglas Wiggin [1856-1923]
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Broadway stageplay in 1909, filmed in 1917 (Mary Pickford), 1932, and 1938 (Shirley Temple)
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"Red Harvest" [1929 first novel] by Dashiell Hammett [1894-1961]
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 | "Yojimbo (The Bodyguard)" [Japan April 1961; US Oct 1962] Co-written & directed by Akira Kurosawa; based on "Red Harvest"; starring Toshirτ Mifune, Eijirτ Tono, Seizaburτ Kawazu, Kyu Sazanka, Kamatari Fujiwara, Takashi Shimura & Tatsuya Nakadai; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (5/2005) Home Vision widescreen b&w DVD [9/99] for $26.96 Home Vision widescreen b&w VHS [9/94] for $29.95 full credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia remade as Western "A Fistful of Dollars" [1964] starring Clint Eastwood movie & sequels on VHS & DVD full credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Miller's Crossing" [Fox Sept 1990 movie] The anti-hero works for an Irish mob boss in the 1930s; when he is thrown out for sleeping with the boss's girlfriend, he joins the rival gang. Directed by Joel Coen; co-written by Joel & Ethan Coen, based on Hammett's "Red Harvest"; starring Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturro & Marcia Gay Harden; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (5/2005) Fox widescreen DVD [5/2003] for $14.99 Fox color VHS [1/93] for $9.98 Varese soundtrack CD [10/90] for $14.99 full credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Last Man Standing" [New Line 1996 movie] Co-written & directed by Walter Hill; based on "Yojimbo" & "Red Harvest"; co-written by Ryuzo Kikushima & Akira Kurosawa; starring Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern & Christopher Walken NewLine widescreen color DVD [5/2000] for $13.48 NewLine color VHS [5/2000] for $9.94 NewLine widescreen VHS [5/2000] out of stock/used NewLine VHS w/Spanish subtitles [5/2000] for $9.94 full credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia |
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"The Right Stuff" [1979] by Tom Wolfe [b. 1931]
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"Roots: The Saga of An American Family" [1976 novel] by Alex Haley [1921-92]
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http://www.amazon.com/Roots-American-Family-Alex-Haley-ebook/dp/B074HVYVN2/
book won a Special Pulitzer Prize in 1977; broadcast as a TV mini-series in 1977 and a sequel mini-series in 1979
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"Shane" [1949 novel] by
Jack Schaefer [1907-91]
initially serialized in Argosy Magazine in 1946 under the title "Rider From Nowhere"; published in book form by Houghton Mifflin in 1949
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  | "Shane" feature film [Paramount April 1953] Directed by George Stevens, screenplay by A.B. Guthrie Jr. from the Jack Schaefer novel; starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon DeWilde, Jack Palance & Ben Johnson; Oscar nomi-nations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Script, Best Supporting Actor (JP & BDW), won for Best Cinematography; listed at National Film Registry 1993 Paramount color DVD [8/2000] for $22.49 Hungry Minds color VHS [4/98] for $9.95 full credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailer [11/2013 upload; 2:03] online at YouTube |
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"Silent Spring" [1962 bestseller] by eco-activist Rachel Carson [1907-64]
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"Slaughterhouse-Five: or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death" [1969]
absurdist WW2 novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [1922-2007]
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"Slaughterhouse-Five" feature film [1972]
Directed by George Roy Hill full credits at IMDb
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http://www.amazon.com/Slaughterhouse-Five-Michael-Sacks/dp/B0001FVDGY/
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"The Sound and The Fury" [1929] by William Faulkner [1897-1962]
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"The Sun Also Rises" [1926] by Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961]
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"The Sun Also Rises" [1957 feature film] starring Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner & Errol Flynn
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"The Sun Also Rises" [1984 feature film]
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"To Kill A Mockingbird" [1960 bestseller]
by (Nelle) Harper Lee [1926-2016]
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won 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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"Travels With Charley In Search of America" [1962]
by John Steinbeck [1902-68]
 | In 1960, Nobel-winning author Steinbeck set out in a pickup-truck-with-camper, accompanied by his French standard poodle Charley, and traveled across America, from Long Island to Montana to New Orleans to California. He found that the 'New America' replacing the old American values was not something that he liked.
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"Tropic of Cancer" [1934] by Henry Miller [1891-1980]
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Rip Torn starred in the film adaptation of "Tropic of Cancer" [1970]
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"The Virginian: A Horseman of The Plains" [1902] by Owen Wister [1860-1938]
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"Where The Sidewalk Ends" [poems 1974] by Shel Silverstein [1930-99]
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"White Fang" [1906] by Jack London [1876-1916]
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"The World According To Garp" [1978 bestseller] by John Irving
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345418018/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_According_to_Garp_(film) 1982
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"The Yearling" children's novel [1938] by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings [1896-1953]
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James Baldwin [1924-87]
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Saul Bellow [1915-2005]
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XXIst Century American Lit
These are authors whose careers began in the XXth Century and are still active - and important - in the XXIst Century.
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prize-winning Toni Morrison [1931-2019]
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1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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national treasure Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978; she is a recipient of the National Book Award,
the PEN/Malamud Award, the National Humanities Medal, the Commonwealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature (2003), the Prix Femina (2005),
the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award (2006), and the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award (2010).
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Philip Roth [1933-2018]
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won the Man Booker International Prize in 2011
  | Roth: Novels & Stories, 1959-1962 [2005] Edited by Ross Miller
Library of America 8x5 hardcover [8/2005] for $23.10 includes novella "Goodbye, Columbus" and "Five Short Stories" [1959] & novel "Letting Go [1962] Roth: Novels, 19671972 [2005] Edited by Ross Miller Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [8/2005] for $23.10 includes "When She Was Good" [1967], "Portnoy's Complaint" [1969], "Our Gang" ]1971] & "The Breast" [1972] Roth: Novels, 1973-1977 [2006] Edited by Ross Miller Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/2006] for $23.10 includes "The Great American Novel" [1973], "My Life As A Man" [1974] & "The Professor of Desire" [1977] Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy & Epilogue, 19791985 [2007] Edited by Ross Miller Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [9/2007] for $23.1 includes "The Ghost Writer' [1979], "Zuckerman Unbound" [1981], "The Anatomy Lesson" [1983], "The Prague Orgy" [1985] & previously unproduced television screenplay for 'The Prague Orgy' |
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