The Portable American Realism Reader (Portable Library)

During the pivotal period of America?s international emergence, between the Civil War and WWI, the aligned literary movements of Realism and Naturalism not only shaped the national literature of the age, but also left an indelible and far-reaching influence on twentieth-century American and world literature. Seeking to strip narrative from pious sentimentalities, and, according to William Dean Howells, to ?Apaint? life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and relation,? Realism is best represented by this volume?s masterly pieces by Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, and Willa Cather among others. The joining of Realist methods with the theories of Marx, Darwin, and Spencer to reveal the larger forces (biological, evolutionary, historical) which move humankind, are exemplified here in the fiction of such writers as Jack London, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser.

• The Open Boat and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
• Three "Whys" of the Russian Revolution
• World War I: Contains a 16-Page Guide to WWI Battlefields and Memorials
• Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
• As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text
• America In The 1900s And 1910s (DECADES OF AMERICAN HISTORY)
• Maggie, a Girl of the Streets and Other New York Writings (Modern Library Classics)
• Stalin: Russia's Man of Steel
• Hitler
• The Awakening (Dover Thrift Editions)