America Through European Eyes

America Through European Eyes

Author: Aurelian Cr_iu_u

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0271033908

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"A collection of essays that discuss representative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French and English views of American democracy and society, and offer a critical assessment of various narrative constructions of American life, society, and culture"--Provided by publisher.


Stoner

Stoner

Author: John Williams

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1590179285

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"Born the child of a poor farmer in Missouri, William Stoner is urged by his parents to study new agriculture techniques at the state university. Digging instead into the texts of Milton and Shakespeare, Stoner falls under the spell of the unexpected pleasures of English literature, and decides to make it his life. Stoner is the story of that life"--