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Professor Weinstein presents eighty-four lectures on the great classics of American literature, showing how such authors as Irving, Poe, Thoreau, Hemingway, and Faulkner bring the past to life, changing as each generation steps forward to interpret it anew.

America's foremost literary critic celebrates the American pantheon of great writers from Walt Whitman to Ralph Ellison, to Ursula K. LeGuin, Philip Roth, and more.

Includes a brief biography of Maya Angelou, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.

This series presents some of the finest teachers in America, lecturing on some of the greatest literature ever written.

Author Dean Sluyter, a meditation teacher, spent 33 years teaching English and the literature of enlightenment at the Pingry School in New Jersey. In this book designed to engage students and general readers, he interprets classics of literature through the lens of Buddhism. Writing in a conversational style with a sense of humor, he uncovers passages that mirror major concepts of Buddhism, in works by writers from Frederick Douglass and William Blake...