"Presents self-contained sections from William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha novels, including such stories as 'A Rose for Emily, ' 'That Evening Sun, ' and 'Old Man'; a Yoknapatawpha County map; a chronology of the Compson family; and Faulkner's 1950 Nobel Prize Address."

Contains thirty-three contemporary short fiction stories about people living in the Southwest, written by women authors who are either from, or have spent a significant amount of time in the region.

"The public debate on abortion stretches back much further than Roe v. Wade, to long before the terms "pro-choice" and "pro-life" were ever invented. Yet the ways Americans discussed abortion in the early decades of the twentieth century had little in common with our now-entrenched debates about personal responsibility and individual autonomy. Abortion in the American Imagination returns to the moment when American writers first dared to broach the...

In this affecting semi-autobiographical novel, the author portrays over three decades in the life of the Mason family as they struggle to survive during the lean years of the early twentieth century. Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal...

Introduces advanced-level students to centuries of Latin American literature. Presents key authors from pre-Hispanic to contemporary times and includes: essays describing the literary period, a timeline of key historical and literary events, author biographies, and a list of each author's major works.