The Dover Anthology of American Literature, Volume II: From 1865 to 1922
688The Dover Anthology of American Literature, Volume II: From 1865 to 1922
688Paperback
-
PICK UP IN STORECheck Availability at Nearby Stores
Available within 2 business hours
Related collections and offers
Overview
At the end of the Civil War, another long and arduous struggle began as the nation attempted to reunite. Literature offered a path toward solidarity, and this concise anthology surveys the writings of major American authors from the war's end to the dawn of the Jazz Age.
Featured works include those of Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and other poets. Mark Twain is prominently represented among the storytellers, along with Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Three short novels appear in their entirety: Daisy Miller by Henry James, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, and Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. Speeches by Sitting Bull and Theodore Roosevelt, memoirs by Booker T. Washington and Helen Keller, and many other selections recapture a vibrant era in American literature. Informative introductory notes supplement the authoritative texts.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780486780771 |
---|---|
Publisher: | Dover Publications |
Publication date: | 10/15/2014 |
Series: | Dover Thrift Editions: Literary Collections , #2 |
Pages: | 688 |
Sales rank: | 776,156 |
Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.70(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Emily DickinsonPoems: [Escape]; [Compensation]; "A wounded deer leaps highest"; "Heaven is what I cannot reach!"; [Hope]; "There’s a certain slant of light"; "I’m nobody! Who are you?"; "The nearest dream recedes, unrealized"; [The Master]; [In the Garden]; [Retrospect]; "I died for beauty, but was scarce"; [Dying]; "It was not death, for I stood up"; [The Railway Train]; [The Mystery of Pain]; [A Thunder-storm]; [The Lost Thought]; [The Snake]; "Nature rarer uses yellow"; [A Book]; [The Humming-Bird] (1860s-c.1885)
Letters: To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1862-1869)
Mark Twain
Travel Writing: Chapters 42 and 53 from Roughing It (1872)
Novel: Chapter 2 from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
Novel: Chapters 1, 4-7, 12-13, 23 from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
Speech: "To the Whitefriars" (1899)
Sitting Bull, Tatanka Yotanka
Speeches: "Behold, My Friends, the Spring Is Come" (1875); "This Land Belongs to Us" (c. 1882)
Bret Harte
Short Story: "My Friend, the Tramp" (1878)
Henry James
Novella: Daisy Miller (1878)
Ulysses S. Grant
Autobiography: Chapter XVI from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (1885)
Ambrose Bierce
Short Stories: "A Tough Tussle" (1888) and "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1890)
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Short Story: "The Revolt of ‘Mother’" (1891)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Short Stories: "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) and "If I Were a Man" (1914)
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Poems: "Sympathy" and "We Wear the Mask" (1896); Short Story: "The Scapegoat" (1904)
Navajo, Pima, Inuit
Native American Poems: "Song from the Mountain Chant"; "Quail Song"; "Dance Song" (1896-1918)
Stephen Crane
Short Story: "The Little Regiment" (1896)
Kate Chopin
Short Stories: "A Pair of Silk Stockings" (1897) and "Azelie" (1897)
Charles W. Chesnutt
Short Story: "Uncle Wellington’s Wives" (1899)
Booker T. Washington
Autobiography: Chapter 2: "Boyhood Days" from Up from Slavery (1901)
Helen Keller
Autobiography: Chapters IV-VII from The Story of My Life (1903)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Essay: "Sorrow Songs" (1903)
Jack London
Novel: The Call of the Wild (1903)
Theodore Roosevelt
Speech: "The Natural Wonder of the Grand Canyon" (1903)
O. Henry
Short Stories: "The Cop and the Anthem" (1906) and "The Ransom of Red Chief" (1910)
Emma Goldman
Speech: "What Is Patriotism?" (1908)
Ezra Pound
Poems: "Translations from Heine" (from Die Heimkehr, Nos. 1, 4, 8 ["Night Song"]); "The Seafarer"; "The Garden"; "Meditatio"; "In a Station of the Metro"; "Alba"; "The Lake Isle"; "Song of the Bowmen of Shu"; "The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter"; "The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance"; "Lament of the Frontier Guard"; "Exile’s Letter"; "Separation on the River Kiang"; "Homage to Sextus Propertius" (Sections VII, IX) (1911-1921)
Edith Wharton
Novel: Ethan Frome (1911)
Carl Sandburg
Poems: "Chicago" (1914); "Fog" and "Window" (1916)
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Poems: "The Garden"; "The Pool"; "Fragment XXXVI"; "Song"; "At Baia" (1915-1921)
T.S. Eliot
Poems: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915) and "The Waste Land" (1922)
Wallace Stevens
Poems: "Peter Quince at the Clavier"; "Sunday Morning"; "The Worms at Heaven’s Gate"; "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"; "The Wind Shifts"; "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle"; "Earthy Anecdotes"; "Anecdote of the Jar"; "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad"; "The Snow Man"; "Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb"; "The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws"; "Bantams in Pine-Woods"; "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" (1915-1922)
William Carlos Williams
Poems: "The Young Housewife"; "Pastoral (‘When I was younger’)"; "Apology"; "Danse Russe"; "Smell!"; "Spring Strains"; "To a Solitary Disciple"; "Dedication for a Plot of Ground"; "Le Medicin Malgre Lui"; "To Mark Anthony in Heaven"; "To Waken an Old Lady"; "Complaint"; "Complete Destruction"; "The Widow’s Lament in Springtime"; "The Lonely Street"; "The Great Figure" (1916-1921)
Theodore Dreiser
Short Story: "The Lost Phoebe" (1916)
Robert Frost
Poems: "The Road Not Taken"; "Meeting and Passing"; "Birches"; "A Time to Talk"; "The Line-Gang"; "The Sound of the Trees"; "Fragmentary Blue"; "Place for a Third"; "Fire and Ice" (1916-1920)
Rose Cohen
Memoir: FromOut of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side (1918)
Willa Cather
Short Story: "Paul’s Case" (1920)
Sherwood Anderson
Short Stories: "The Egg" and "The Other Woman" (1921)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poems: "Thursday"; "To the Not Impossible Him"; "Exiled"; "Travel"(1921)
Langston Hughes
Poem: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1921)
Gertrude Stein
Prose: "Every Afternoon: A Dialogue" (1922)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Short Story: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (1922)