The volume includes essays on Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy , Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs , Saul Bellow’s Herzog , F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night , Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird , Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio and others. It also features timelines, author chronologies, bibliographies with further reading suggestions and cumulative indexes.