• NEW—Includes the complete text of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas.
  • Enables students to get to know the author better by reading the complete work.
• NEW—Additional Hopi and Navajo myths.
  • Reflects a continued emphasis on cultural plurality, including the contributions to the American literary canon made by women and minority authors.
• NEW—An American Literature Website.
  • Gives students additional study questions, timeline and contextual material to support literature.
• Presents multiple selections by authors.
  • Enables students to compare and contrast different works.
• Offers extensive explanatory headnotes and footnotes that link the works and authors of a period.
  • Provides students with additional insights into each selection.
• Provides an expanded chronological chart in each volume.
  • Helps students associate literary works with historical, political, technological, and cultural developments.
• Presents many works in their entirety, e.g., Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
  • Enables students to get to know the work and its author better by reading it in its entirety.
• Repeats the selections by Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman in both Volumes I and II.
  • Allows instructors to begin or end a course with Dickinson or Whitman.

Volume II: Realism to the Present, 7/e

• NEW—The editions most respected by modern scholars.
  • Provides students and instructors with complete works that reflect valuable contributions to literature and the course.
• NEW—Companion Website — www.prenhall.com/mcmichael.
  • Provides a wealth of additional contextual information surrounding the selections as well as the authors themselves.Additional essay questions on major authors.
• Emphasis on cultural plurality.
  • Presents students with the contributions to the American literary canon made by women and minority authors.
• Multiple selections by authors.
  • Enables students to compare and contrast different works.
• Extensive explanatory headnotes and footnotes.
  • Offers students additional insights into each selection and links the works and authors of a period.
• An expanded chronological chart.
  • Helps students associate literary works with historical, political, technological, and cultural developments.
• Many works in their entirety—e.g., Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Crane's The Red Badge of Courage; William's The Glass Menagerie; Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun; and Miller's Death of a Salesman.
  • Allows students the opportunity to study complete works.
• Repeat selections by Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman in both volumes of the anthology.
  • Offers faculty the flexibility to decide where to end and begin the surveys.
• Several shorter works—e.g., “How to Tell a Story,” by Mark Twain; Poems by Rita Dove; short stories by Sandra Cisneros, Louise Erdrich, and Toni Morrison.
  • Provides flexibility in choosing reading lengths.