The Dover Anthology of American Literature, Volume II

    The Dover Anthology of American Literature, Volume II

    From 1865 to 1922

    Edited by Bob Blaisdell

    $23.00

    Publication Date: 17th September 2014

    "Absolutely wonderful; a marvelous journey which meanders through some of the most formative literature, non-fiction, and poetry to come out of the United States." — The Literary Sisters
    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 oth... Read More

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    "Absolutely wonderful; a marvelous journey which meanders through some of the most formative literature, non-fiction, and poetry to come out of the United States." — The Literary Sisters
    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 oth... Read More
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    "Absolutely wonderful; a marvelous journey which meanders through some of the most formative literature, non-fiction, and poetry to come out of the United States." — The Literary Sisters
    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.


    Dover Original.

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    • Price: $23.00
    • Pages: 688
    • Publisher: Dover Publications
    • Imprint: Dover Publications
    • Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Literary Collections
    • Publication Date: 17th September 2014
    • Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
    • ISBN: 9780486780771
    • Format: Paperback
    • BISACs:
      FICTION / Classics
      LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General
    Author Bio
    An English professor at the City University of New York's Kingsborough College, Bob Blaisdell is the editor of numerous Dover Thrift Editions and many other books. He has published essays about his own experiences as a teacher and regularly reviews books for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Christian Science Monitor.
    Table of Contents

    Emily Dickinson

    Poems: [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)

    "Absolutely wonderful; a marvelous journey which meanders through some of the most formative literature, non-fiction, and poetry to come out of the United States." — The Literary Sisters
    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.


    Dover Original.

    • Price: $23.00
    • Pages: 688
    • Publisher: Dover Publications
    • Imprint: Dover Publications
    • Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Literary Collections
    • Publication Date: 17th September 2014
    • Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
    • ISBN: 9780486780771
    • Format: Paperback
    • BISACs:
      FICTION / Classics
      LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General
    An English professor at the City University of New York's Kingsborough College, Bob Blaisdell is the editor of numerous Dover Thrift Editions and many other books. He has published essays about his own experiences as a teacher and regularly reviews books for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Christian Science Monitor.

    Emily Dickinson

    Poems: [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)