Our Literary Heritage: A Pictorial History of the Writer in America

by Van Wyck Brooks and Otto L. Brooks, Van Wyck and Bettmann

Book Overview

In pictures and text here is the story of American writers from 1800 to 1915. Charts the course of our literature in one compact and vivid volume. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525172750
• ISBN13: 9780525172758
• Release Date: January 1956
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher

Customer Reviews

The treasures of another time

This is not a high- powered work of literary criticism, but rather an appreciative survey of the most important writers of America 1800-1915. The photos that accompany the text are of great interest, and provide unfamiliar images of writers we may have one or two fixed pictures of in our mind. A pleasure to look and skim through , and a very good introduction to American Literature.