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Yusef Komunyakaa's poem "Facing It" describes a Vietnam-War veteran's painful experience of visiting the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. From interviews and biographical details, we can assume the speaker of ...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Although probably no other work of American literature has been the source of so much controversy, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is regarded by many as the greatest literary achievement the United......
Girl
First published in the June 26, 1978, issue of The New Yorker, “Girl” was the first of what would become more than a dozen short stories Jamaica Kincaid published in that magazine. Five years later, “Girl” appeared as...
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger’s definitive examination of adolescent disillusionment in postwar America, is the author’s only published novel. The work has been the subject of both adulation and controversy since i...
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Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references over 165,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 215,000 titles into one source.