Spanish university students of American and Commonwealth literatures will find several key author and their works introduced and explained in accessible English. They will also be able to practise their literary competence by doing the activities proposed. American and Commomwealth literaturess are here presented in such a way that no student will feel indifferent: Melvukke, Poe, Whitman, Twain, Buck, Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Foster, Lessing, Gordimer..