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Subject Guide: Literature

Fiction

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Provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

 

Books

Louisa May Alcott - Fiction

  Call Number: MEDIA RESOURCES  813.41 Z263
  Publication Date: 2008
  Biography of Louisa May Alcott, the author best known for
  writing Little women, that is based on primary sources shot

  in original locations.

Jane Austen - Children & Fiction

Video

Call Number: MEDIA RESOURCES 791.4372 B398
ISBN: 0788876279

Tells of the life of Jane Austen that led to the writing of Pride and Prejudice.

 
 Books

L. Frank Baum - Fiction

Elizabeth Bowen - Fiction

Brontë Sisters - Fiction & Poetry

Willa Cather - Fiction

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - Fiction

Joseph Conrad - Fiction

James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction

Videos

Call Number: online
PUBLICATION DATE: 1971

Explores three wars and leaves the century as an industrial power of 45 states and 76 million people when America entered the 19th century as an agricultural nation of 16 states and 5.3 million people.

Call Number: MEDIA RESOURCES  813.24 L33
PUBLICATION DATE: 1971
In 1757, during the French and Indian War, half-sisters Cora and Alice Munro set out to join their father, the British Commander of Fort William Henry. After they are betrayed by Magua, the sisters are rescued by Hawkeye whose efforts to lead them to safety are aided by the noble Mohican Uncas, the last of this tribe.
 
Books

George Eliot - Fiction

William Faulkner - Fiction

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Fiction

Thomas Hardy - Fiction & Poetry

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Fiction

Ernest Hemingway - Fiction

Langston Hughes - Drama, Fiction, & Poetry

Video

Publication Date: 2003

Alice Walker and Arnold Rampersad discuss Langston Hughes with Bruce Schwartz about the experiences shaping Langston's youth, how he became a writer, the beauty and style of his writing, and the Harlem renaissance

Books

Zora Neale Hurston - Drama, Fiction, & Non-Fiction

Video

Call Number: Available online
Publication Date: 2006
Zora Neale Hurston combined a hunger for research and a desire to penetrate the deepest of popular beliefs with a truly exquisite narrative talent to write novels, short stories, folktales, plays, and essays.
 

Books

Henry James - Fiction

James Joyce - Fiction & Poetry

Nelle Harper Lee - Fiction

Video

Call Number: MEDIA RESOURCES 813.69 L295T3 
Publication Date: 2011
Explores the "To Kill a Mockingbird" phenomenon, unravels some of the mysteries surrounding Harper Lee, and brings to light the context and history of the novel's Deep South setting and the social changes it inspired after publication.
 
Books

Herman Melville - Fiction & Poetry

Toni Morrison - Children, Drama, Fiction, & Non-Fiction

Marcel Proust - Fiction & Non-Fiction

Ayn Rand - Drama, Fiction, & Non-Fiction

J.K. Rowling - Children & Fiction

John Steinbeck - Fiction

Mark Twain - Fiction

Alice Walker - Fiction, Non-Fiction, & Poetry

Videos

Publication Date: 2004

Alice Walker discusses her short story, Everyday Use, with her official biographer, Evelyn C. White.

Alice Walker: Everyday Use. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Publication Date: 2004
Presents Alice Walker's short story, Everyday Use about Maggie and an old family quilt.

 
 
 
 
Books

Edith Wharton - Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry

Oscar Wilde - Drama, Fiction, & Poetry

Virginia Woolf - Fiction

G.K. Chesterton - Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry

Charles Dickens - Fiction

Madeleine L'Engle - Fiction

C.S. Lewis - Fiction & Non-Fiction

George MacDonald - Fiction

Flannery O'Connor - Fiction & Non-Fiction

Jonathan Swift - Fiction, Non-Fiction, & Poetry

J.R.R. Tolkien - Fiction & Poetry