About the Book

This title is a Drama title. Drama books mostly analyze the performance of a play in a theater, or contain the entire script of the play. Plays can be divided into a number of genres, including classical and modern, and across cultural lines. Some examples are: Famous Plays: Their Histories and Their Authors, St. Nicholas book of plays & operettas, The Wierd Wanderer of Jutland, The Death of Ivan the Terrible, and The Scarlet Letter.

Books about American Literature feature the works of American authors. As the West was opened up and industry grew in the East during the 19th century, US literary output grew more than apace. Titles include: A Primer of American Literature, American literature, Introduction to the Study of American Literature, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches, The complete works of Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance, A double barrelled detective story, Tales of the Maine coast, The imported bridegroom, and other stories of the New York ghetto, Fables in slang, Breaking into society, The Woman Who Did, and America's Coming-Of-Age.

Historical Fiction books set their characters and plot at some time in the past, providing adequate background on the customes and mores of that time to make it seem believable to the reader, whilst not necessarily remaining true to actual historical events in that setting. This genre became quite popular in Europe and North America during the 19th century. Examples include: A Plot and a Peerage, Uncle Moses, Vathek; An Arabian Tale, The Naulahka: A Story of West and East, The Bindweed: A Romantic Novel Concerning the Late Queen of Servia, and Hawk's Nest, or the last of the Cahoonshees.