The Jameses: A Family Narrative
#2508 of 3,809 books · #903 in Biography & Memoir
Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1991).
The first really original book on the classical period in American writing that has appeared for a long time.
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- ISBN-13
- 9780226476810
- Genre
- Topics
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1991)
Other awarded books from R.W.B. Lewis
- Edith Wharton: A Biography (1975)3 wins · 36 score
- Trials of the Word: Essays in American Literature and the Humanistic Tradition0 wins · 4 score
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