Major literary characters

Introduction / Harold Bloom - Critical Extracts: James Baldwin / Irving Howe / Ralph Ellision / Houston A. Baker, Jr. / Sherley Anne Williams / Charles T. Davis / Nina Kressner Cobb / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. / Charles Johnson -- How "Bigger" Was Born / Richard Wright -- Native Son and Three Kinds of Revolution / Edward Margolies -- Bessie's Blues / Edward A. Watson -- Native Son / Kenneth Kinnamon -- Richard Wright and Native Son: Not Guilty / Dorothy S. Redden -- Bigger Thoms: The Symbolic Negro and the Discrete Human Entity / Charles De Arman -- Native Son and Mass Culture /. Ross Pudaloff -- The Function of Violence in Native Son / Robert James Butler -- Wright's Crime and Punishment / Tony Magistrale -- The Narrative Presence in Native Son / Laura E. Tanner -- Alienation and Creativity in Native Son / Valerie Smith -- Misogyny and Appropriation in Native Son /. Alan W. France.

Critical essays on the character Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The scarlet letter."

The Interstellar Mining Vehicle Caliban cruises through warp space, her crew enduring grim and sterile life in the artificial environment within her hull. Countless billions of miles from home, they search for mineral resources that will feed the industries of an exhausted Earth. They know the rules: if anything goes wrong, no one is coming to help them. They are on their own. A catastrophic collision with a mystery vessel leaves the Caliban crippled and drifting, systems failing, crew desperate. Their one chance lies aboard the other ship--an alien hulk apparently long-abandoned, with a cargo in her holds beyond all human comprehension. But deep in those endless hallways something else is stirring. And soon the few survivors are dying, seemingly at the hands of one of their own comrades.

Presents critical extracts and essays on the novel's character Jay Gatsby, a self-made man whose love for a wealthy woman led to his tragic death.

Provides critical insight into Shakespeare's AS YOU LIKE IT.