Subject: American literature History and criticism

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• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (32,759 copies)
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville (31,353 copies)
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (21,080 copies)
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller (13,590 copies)
• Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison (1,217 copies)
• The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie (690 copies)
• Vamps and Tramps: New Essays by Camille Paglia (658 copies)
• Studies in Classic American Literature by D. H. Lawrence (503 copies)
• The Oxford Companion to American Literature by James D. Hart (463 copies)
• The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian… by Paula Gunn Allen (428 copies)
• Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s by Malcolm Cowley (425 copies)
• Shadow and Act by Ralph Ellison (379 copies)
• The Flowering of New England by Van Wyck Brooks (374 copies)
• Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American… by Edmund Wilson (365 copies)
• Women of the Left Bank by Shari Benstock (362 copies)
• Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth by Henry Nash Smith (362 copies)
• From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American… by Malcolm Bradbury (303 copies)
• American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of… by F. O. Matthiessen (301 copies)
• The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century by Perry Miller (274 copies)
• The Feminization of American Culture by Ann Douglas (272 copies)
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American… by Elizabeth Kantor (271 copies)
• Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere by Christopher Hitchens (255 copies)
• Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siècle by Elaine Showalter (249 copies)
• The World of Washington Irving by Van Wyck Brooks (243 copies)
• A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and… by Rachel Cohen (213 copies)
• Hamlet's Mother and Other Women by Carolyn G. Heilbrun (210 copies)
• The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs & Corso in Paris,… by Barry Miles (209 copies)
• Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the… by Richard Slotkin (208 copies)
• Literary Feuds: A Century of Celebrated Quarrels--From Mark… by Anthony Arthur (200 copies)
• New England: Indian Summer, 1865-1915 by Van Wyck Brooks (195 copies)
• The Death of Satan by Andrew Delbanco (195 copies)
• Required Reading by Andrew Delbanco (176 copies)
• Literary history of the United States by Robert E. Spiller (175 copies)
• The Oxford Book of American Literary Anecdotes by Donald Hall (173 copies)
• Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World by Claudia Roth Pierpont (165 copies)
• The literature of the United States by Marcus Cunliffe (158 copies)
• The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties… by Edmund Wilson (156 copies)
• Main Currents in American Thought, Volume 1: The Colonial… by Vernon Louis Parrington (152 copies)
• The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age… by Richard Slotkin (150 copies)
• Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive… by David S. Reynolds (146 copies)
• Main Currents in American Thought, Volume 2: The Romantic… by Vernon Louis Parrington (141 copies)
• The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and… by Steven Watson (138 copies)
• Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings, 1960-1998 by Gore Vidal (137 copies)
• The American Adam (Phoenix Books) by R. W. B. Lewis (135 copies)
• Fame & Folly: Essays by Cynthia Ozick (128 copies)
• Harlem Renaissance by Nathan Irvin Huggins (127 copies)
• An American Procession by Alfred Kazin (127 copies)
• American Humor: a Study of the National Character by Constance Rourke (125 copies)
• Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education and the Arts by Roger Shattuck (123 copies)
• Main currents in American thought : an interpretation of… by Vernon Louis Parrington (122 copies)

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