Table Of ContentContents Preface to the Twelfth Edition To the User Handbook to Literature Outline of Literary History: British, American, World APPENDICES Monetary Terms and Values Nobel Prizes for Literature Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry Pulitzer Prizes for Drama Index of Proper Names
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