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Macbeth

Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature
ISBN: 9781414448701
Publication Date: 2009-03-25
Shakespeare for Students
ISBN: 9781414412559
Publication Date: 2007-08-06
Critical Insights: Macbeth by Salem Press Editors (Editor); William W. Weber (Editor)
ISBN: 9781682175637
Publication Date: 2017-11-21
Critical Survey of Shakespeare's Plays by Salem Press Editors; Joseph Rosenblum (Editor)
ISBN: 9781619258648
Publication Date: 2015-10-15
The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare; Harold Bloom (Editor)
Call Number: 822.33 MAC
ISBN: 9780791095942
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
William Shakespeare by Harold Bloom (Introduction by)
Call Number: 822.3 WIL
ISBN: 9781604137231
Publication Date: 2010-08-01

The Glass Menagerie

Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of American Literature by Anne Marie Hacht; Dwayne D. Hayes
ISBN: 9781414431307
Publication Date: 2009-07-03

Frankenstein

Critical Insights by Virginia Brackett (Editor)
ISBN: 1682171167
Publication Date: 2016-09-13
Frankenstein by Harold Bloom (Introduction by)
Call Number: 823.7 FRA
ISBN: 0791078825
Publication Date: 2004-03-01
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; Joseph Pearce (Editor)
ISBN: 9781586171384
Publication Date: 2008-05-01
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Harold Bloom (Editor, Introduction by)
Call Number: 823.7 Mar
ISBN: 0791036898
Publication Date: 1996-10-01
Novels for Students by Diane Telgen
Call Number: REF 808.3 NOV v.1
ISBN: 0787616869
Publication Date: 1997-09-05
Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon
Call Number: 920 GOR
ISBN: 9781400068425
Publication Date: 2015-04-28

To Kill a Mockingbird Print Resources

Racism in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird by Candice Mancini (Editor)
ISBN: 9780737739008
Publication Date: 2007-12-13
To Kill a Mockingbird by Donald R. Noble (Editor); Harper Lee
ISBN: 9781587656187
Publication Date: 2009-09-01
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Readings on "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Terry O'Neill
ISBN: 9781565105768
Publication Date: 2000-01-01

The Crucible Print Resources

Contemporary American Literature, 1945 - Present by Karen Meyers; Erik V. R. Rangno
ISBN: 9781604134896
Publication Date: 2010-04-01
Justice in Arthur Miller's - The Crucible by Claudia Johnson; Candice Mancini (Editor)
ISBN: 9780737743906
Publication Date: 2009-03-20
Student Companion to Arthur Miller by Susan C. W. Abbotson
ISBN: 9780313309496
Publication Date: 2000-05-30

George Orwell Print Resources

George Orwell by John Rodden; Salem Press Staff
ISBN: 9781429837286
Publication Date: 2012-09-01
Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature
ISBN: 9781414448701
Publication Date: 2009-03-25
Dystopia by M. Keith Booker (Editor); Salem Press Editors
ISBN: 9781429837330
Publication Date: 2012-09-01
Great World Writers by Patrick M. O'Neil (Editor)
ISBN: 0761474684
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Novels for Students v. 7 by Diane Telgen (Editor)
ISBN: 9780787616878
Publication Date: 1997-09-05
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four by Harold Bloom (Editor, Introduction by)
ISBN: 0791040984
Publication Date: 1996-10-01
Politics in George Orwell's Animal Farm by Dedria Bryfonski
ISBN: 9780737750218
Publication Date: 2010-09-30
A Student's Guide to George Orwell by A. L. Means
ISBN: 0766024334
Publication Date: 2005-09-01

Hamlet

Critical Survey of Shakespeare's Plays by Salem Press
ISBN: 9781619258648
Publication Date: 2015-11-01
Hamlet by Harold Bloom (Editor); Brett Foster (Editor)
ISBN: 9780791095928
Publication Date: 2008-04-01
Hamlet by Don Nardo
ISBN: 1560068302
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Shakespeare for Students v.1
ISBN: 9781414412559
Publication Date: 2007-08-06
What Happens in Hamlet by John Dover Wilson
ISBN: 0521091098
Publication Date: 1951-01-02

Transcendentalism Print Resources

American Transcendentalism by Philip F. Gura
ISBN: 9780809016440
Publication Date: 2008-09-02
Conflagration by John A. Buehrens
Call Number: 141 BUE
ISBN: 9780807024041
Publication Date: 2020-01-14
Essential Transcendentalists by Richard G. Geldard
ISBN: 9781585424344
Publication Date: 2005-10-06
Henry David Thoreau by Harold Bloom (Editor); Luca Prono (Volume Editor)
ISBN: 9781438121673
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Romanticism and Transcendentalism, 1800-1860 by Andrew Ladd; Karen Meyers
ISBN: 9781604134865
Publication Date: 2010-04-01
Transcendentalism by Joel Myerson (Editor)
ISBN: 9780195122138
Publication Date: 2000-12-14
Romanticism and Transcendentalism, 1820-1865 by Bruccoli-Clark Layman; Robert C. Nowatzki; Robert D. Habich
ISBN: 9780816078639
Publication Date: 2010-04-01
Ralph Waldo Emerson by Harold Bloom (Editor)
ISBN: 9780791095591
Publication Date: 2007-10-01
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Of Mice and Men Print Resources

American Modernism, 1910-1945 by D. W. J. Books; Patricia Booth Linehan; Roger Lathbury
ISBN: 9781604134889
Publication Date: 2010-06-01
The American Dream in John Steinbeck's of Mice and Men by Hayley Mitchell Haugen
ISBN: 9780737748482
Publication Date: 2010-05-21
A Student's Guide to John Steinbeck by Gerald Newman; Eleanor Newman Layfield
ISBN: 9780766022591
Publication Date: 2004-12-01

The Catcher in the Rye Print Resources

The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger by Joseph Dewey
ISBN: 9781587658372
Publication Date: 2011-09-01
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J. D. Salinger by Kenneth Slawenski
ISBN: 9781400069514
Publication Date: 2011-01-25

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World by Salem Press Editors (Editor); M. Keith Booker (Editor)
Call Number: 823 BRA
ISBN: 9781619252387
Publication Date: 2014-03-07
Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature
ISBN: 9781414448701
Publication Date: 2009-03-25
ISBN: 0761474684
Novels for Students v.6 by Marie Rose Napierkowski (Editor); Deborah A. Stanley (Editor)
ISBN: 9780787621162
Publication Date: 1999-06-04

The Great Gatsby Print Resources

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald by Morris Dickstein (Editor)
ISBN: 9781587656088
Publication Date: 2009-09-01
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Class Conflict in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby by Claudia Johnson (Editor)
ISBN: 9780737738995
Publication Date: 2007-12-13
A Student's Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald by Eva Weisbrod
ISBN: 9780766022027
Publication Date: 2004-05-01
The American Dream by Keith Newlin
ISBN: 9781429838214
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
ebook

Lord of the Flies Resources

Critical Insights: Lord of the Flies by Salem Press Editors (Editor); Sarah Fredericks (Editor)
Call Number: 823 LOR
ISBN: 9781682175675
Publication Date: 2017-09-08
Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature by Anne Marie Hacht; Dwayne D. Hayes
Call Number: REF 820.9 GAL
ISBN: 9781414448701
Publication Date: 2009-03-25
Dystopia by M. Keith Booker (Editor); Salem Press Editors
ISBN: 9781429837330
Publication Date: 2012-09-01
Great World Writers by Patrick M. O'Neil (Editor)
ISBN: 0761474684
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Novels for Students by Diane Telgen (Editor)
Call Number: REF 808.3 NOV v.2 & v.36
ISBN: 0787616877
Publication Date: 1997-09-05
Violence in William Golding's Lord of the Flies by Dedria Bryfonski
ISBN: 0737746181
Publication Date: 2009-08-24
William Golding's Lord of the Flies by Harold Bloom (Editor, Introduction by)
ISBN: 0791036928
Publication Date: 1996-10-01

The Things They Carried Print Resources

War in Tim O'Brien's the Things they Carried
ISBN: 9780737754599
Publication Date: 2011-06-13
Critical Companion To by Susan Elizabeth Farrell
ISBN: 9781438136615
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
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