The Oxford Book of The American South

Edward L. Ayers and Bradley C. Muttendorf, editors. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Both unclipped dust jacket and hardcover are in Near Fine condition. No writing or markings found in this well-preserved edition, 597 pp. 

"The most telling fiction and nonfiction produced in the South from the late eighteenth century to the present. Renowned authors such as James Agee, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou, Lee Smith, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Mark Twain and Flannery O'Connor appear in these pages. Compelling autobiographies, diaries, memoirs, and journalism as well as stories and selections from novels, from the conservative to the radical, the traditional to the innovative."