THE PEARSON CUSTOM LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE American Literature from 1865 1914 (Compiled by Cristanne Miller, Pomona College) Regions and Realisms: Writing in America, 1865 1914 (24 pp.) I. Re Union and Regionalisms: Inventing a Multicultural Nation Northeast William Dean Howells: Biographical Headnote (5 pp.) Editha (12 pp.) from Criticism and Fiction: On Henry James and the American Novel and Short Story (8 pp.) Sarah Orne Jewett: Biographical Headnote (4 pp.) The Foreigner (20 pp.) Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) The Revolt of Mother (13 pp.) Stephen Crane: Biographical Headnote (4 pp.) Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (50 pp.) Emily Dickinson: Biographical Headnote (7 pp.) Faith is a fine invention (1 pp.) Some keep the Sabbath going to Church (1 pp.) The Robin s my Criterion for Tune (1 pp.) I m Nobody! Who are you? (1 pp.) There s a certain Slant of light (1 pp.) A Bird, came down the Walk (1 pp.) This is my letter to the World (1 pp.) South and Southwest Charles Waddell Chesnutt: Biographical Headnote (4 pp.) The Goophered Grapevine (11 pp.) George Washington Cable: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) Belles Demoiselles Plantations (12 pp.) Midwest and West Mark Twain: Biographical Headnote (7 pp.) The Jumping Frog (14 pp.) from Old Times on the Mississippi (16 pp.) Bret Harte: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) The Outcasts of Poker Flat (9 pp.) Mary Austin: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) The Walking Woman (7 pp.)
Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala Sa): Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) Why I Am a Pagan (3 pp.) Oral Traditions Introduction to the Corridos (4 pp.) Gregorio Cortez (6 pp.) Juanita Alvarado (3 pp.) Introduction to African American Folk Tales (3 pp.) The Talking Eggs (2 pp.) Why Mr. Dog Runs Brer Rabbit (1 pp.) The Flying Africans (2 pp.) Old Boss Wants Into Heaven (3 pp.) Introduction to Native American Tales, Songs, and Chants (4 pp.) Ghost Dance Songs (3 pp.) The Navajo Night Chant (3 pp.) II. Naturalism and Realism Men and Women at Work Frank Norris: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) A Deal in Wheat (10 pp.) Theodore Dreiser: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) from Sister Carrie: Chapter One (8 pp.) Upton Sinclair: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) from The Jungle: Chapter XIV (6 pp.) Immigration and the New World Abraham Cahan: Biographical Headnote (2 pp.) A Sweatshop Romance (10 pp.) Emma Lazarus: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) The New Colossus (1 pp.) José Martí: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) Our America (8 pp.) Natural Forces and Human Choice Mark Twain A True Story Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It (4 pp.) The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut (13 pp.) To the Person Sitting in Darkness (14 pp.) Maxims (1 pp.) Jack London: Biographical Headnote (4 pp.) To Build a Fire (13 pp.)
The Economics of Race Booker T. Washington: Biographical Headnote (4 pp.) from Up From Slavery: Chapters 1 and 14 (19 pp.) W. E. B. DuBois: Biographical Headnote (5 pp.) from The Souls of Black Folk: The Forethought, Chapters I VI, XIII, and XIX (40 pp.) Anna Julia Cooper: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race (17 pp.) Paul Laurence Dunbar: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) When Malindy Sings (3 pp.) Frederick Douglass (2 pp.) We Wear the Mask (1 pp.) The Poet (1 pp.) III. Constructing the Modern: New Thoughts, New Women, New Forms Poetry Emily Dickinson Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (1 pp.) Title divine, is mine (1 pp.) Come slowly Eden! (1 pp.) Wild nights Wild nights! (1 pp.) A solemn thing it was I said (1 pp.) I can wade Grief (1 pp.) Delight is as the flight (2 pp.) I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (1 pp.) It was not Death, for I stood up (2 pp.) After great pain, a formal feeling comes (1 pp.) This World is not conclusion (1 pp.) One need not be a Chamber to be Haunted (1 pp.) The Soul Selects Her Own Society (1 pp.) They shut me up in Prose (1 pp.) This was a Poet (1 pp.) I dwell in Possibility (1 pp.) He fumbles at your Soul (1 pp.0 Because I could not stop for Death (1 pp.) I heard a Fly buzz when I died (1 pp.) Ourselves were wed one summer dear (1 pp.) My Life had stood a Loaded Gun (2 pp.) Four Trees Upon a Solitary Acre (1 pp.)
Renunciation is a piercing Virtue (1 pp.) Publication is the Auction (1 pp.) Color Caste Denomination (1 pp.) To be alive is Power (1 pp.) A narrow Fellow in the Grass (2 pp.) Tell all the truth but tell it slant (1 pp.) To pile like Thunder to its close (1 pp.) Letter to T. W. Higginson, 15 April 1862 (1 pp.) Letter to T. W. Higginson, 25 April 1862 (2 pp.) Letter to T. W. Higginson, July 1862 (2 pp.) Letter to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, Cambridge, ca. 1864 (1 pp.) Letter from T. W. Higginson to His Wife, 16 August 1870 (3 pp.) Excerpt from Letter to Otis P. Lord, ca. 1878 (1 pp.) Letter to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, ca. 1884 (1 pp.) Letter to T. W. Higginson, spring 1886 (1 pp.) Stephen Crane from Black Riders and Other Lines (5 pp.) Edwin Arlington Robinson: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) Richard Cory (1 pp.) Eros Turannos (2 pp.) Firelight (2 pp.) Mr. Flood s Party (2 pp.) The Clerks (1 pp.) Alice Dunbar Nelson: Biographical Headnote (4 pp.) You! Inez! (1 pp.) Sister Josepha (6 pp.) Sarah Piatt: Biographical Headnote (2 pp.) The Old Slave Music (2 pp.) The Palace Burner (2 pp.) Fiction Henry James: Biographical Headnote (6 pp.) Daisy Miller (47 pp.) The Beast in the Jungle (35 pp.) Edith Wharton: Biographical Headnote (5 pp.) Roman Fever (11 pp.) Kate Chopin: Biographical Headnote (4 pp.) Desiree s Baby (5 pp.) Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Biographical Headnote The Yellow Wall paper (14 pp.) Nationalism (1 pp.)
Pauline E. Hopkins: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) General Washington: A Christmas Story (10 pp.) Essays and Self Writing Jane Addams: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) First Days at Hull House from Twenty Years at Hull House (11 pp.) Henry Adams: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) from The Education of Henry Adams: Chapter XXV, The Dynamo and the Virgin (10 pp.)