1When we study a nation’s literature—the works its citizens most value—we study that nation as well. In their work, American writers show the spirit, the courage, and the independence of our great country. We are a nation of truth seekers, and our literature reflects that fact.
“All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.”
American writer Carson McCullers
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