Subject: American literature › History and criticism

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• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (12,233 copies)
• Moby Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville (11,554 copies)
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (8,948 copies)
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller (4,961 copies)
• Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison (439 copies)
• Vamps & Tramps: New Essays by Camille Paglia (390 copies)
• The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie (305 copies)
• The Oxford Companion to American Literature by James D. Hart (220 copies)
• Studies in Classic American Literature by D. H. Lawrence (207 copies)
• Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s by Malcolm Cowley (178 copies)
• Women of the Left Bank by Shari Benstock (154 copies)
• Virgin Land by Henry Nash Smith (149 copies)
• Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American… by Edmund Wilson (148 copies)
• The flowering of New England, 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks (144 copies)
• Shadow and Act by Ralph Ellison (140 copies)
• From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American… by Richard Ruland (138 copies)
• The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian… by Paula Gunn Allen (136 copies)
• Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere by Christopher Hitchens (134 copies)
• The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to English and American… by Elizabeth Kantor (127 copies)
• American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of… by F. O. Matthiessen (120 copies)
• A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and… by Rachel Cohen (119 copies)
• The Feminization of American Culture by Ann Douglas (119 copies)
• Hamlet's Mother and Other Women by Carolyn G. Heilbrun (116 copies)
• Literary Feuds: A Century of Celebrated Quarrels--From Mark… by Anthony Arthur (108 copies)
• Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle by Elaine Showalter (105 copies)
• The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century by Perry Miller (105 copies)
• The World of Washington Irving by Van Wyck Brooks (102 copies)
• The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris,… by Barry Miles (95 copies)
• The Oxford Book of American Literary Anecdotes by Donald Hall (90 copies)
• Required Reading by Andrew Delbanco (83 copies)
• Regeneration Through Violence by Richard Slotkin (83 copies)
• The Death of Satan by Andrew Delbanco (81 copies)
• The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties… by Edmund Wilson (73 copies)
• The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and… by Steven Watson (72 copies)
• The Literature of the United States by Marcus Cunliffe (71 copies)
• The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800 (Main Currents in American… by Vernon Louis Parrington (70 copies)
• Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts by Roger Shattuck (65 copies)
• Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive… by David S. Reynolds (65 copies)
• New England: Indian summer, 1865-1915 by VAN WYCK BROOKS (64 copies)
• Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World by Claudia Roth Pierpont (60 copies)
• An American Procession by Alfred Kazin (58 copies)
• The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age… by Richard Slotkin (58 copies)
• Literary history of the United States by Robert Ernest Spiller (57 copies)
• No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the… by Sandra M. Gilbert (57 copies)
• Gore Vidal Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings by Gore Vidal (57 copies)
• Main Currents in American Thought: Volume 2 - The Romantic… by Vernon L. Parrington (55 copies)
• The American Adam (Phoenix Books) by R. W. B. Lewis (54 copies)
• Ernest Hemingway's the Old Man and the Sea (Bloom's Reviews… by Harold Bloom (53 copies)
• The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life… by Barry Werth (52 copies)
• Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and… by Stephen Greenblatt (52 copies)

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