George and Barbara Perkins

Selected Works

Travel Memoir
AROUND THE WORLD ON THE QE2
China to London in 2006 and New York to Australia in 2008. Stops include. The book is a personal account of her last world cruise. Highlights include the Taj Mahal at sunrise, Mount Parnassus, Delphi, Cape Horn, Pitcairn Island, the Strait of Magellan, the tombs in the Valley of the Kings, the moai statues of Easter Island, the Great Wall and the Shaolin Monastery in China, the Hunter Valley Vineyards and Great Barrier Reef of Australia.
Fiction
Rare Days in Lost Valley: The Bellwether University Book of Universal Truths
A comic novel about Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan, a scholarly conference in Ohio, love, fraud, a pit bull, and a cigar store Indian.
Memoir and History
Stones Stand, Waters Flow
New England life and history with focus on Burlington, Massachusetts from colonial times through the 1950s
The American Tradition in Literature
A history and anthology, available in both a two volume complete edition and a shorter, one volume concise edition
The HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature
The most comprehensive single-volume guide to American literature.
The Harper Handbook to Literature
A guide to history, terms, and concepts.

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Their other books together include THE AMERICAN TRADITION IN LITERATURE (12th edition, 2009), and also THE HARPERCOLLINS READER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, THE HARPER HANDBOOK TO LITERATURE, WOMEN'S WORK, KALEIDOSCOPE: STORIES OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, and CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE.

George's solo works include a memoir and history, STONES STAND, WATERS FLOW: A NEW ENGLAND STORY, and RARE DAYS IN LOST VALLEY: THE BELLWETHER UNIVERSITY BOOK OF UNIVERSAL TRUTHS, a novel. In addition to conventional bound formats, both are available as e-books.

THE AMERICAN TRADITION IN LITERATURE, 11th edition, volume 1, McGraw-Hill, 2006

THE AMERICAN TRADITION IN LITERATURE, 11th edition, volume II, McGraw-Hill 2006

THE AMERICAN TRADITION IN LITERATURE, 11th edition, concise volume, McGraw-Hill, 2006