The rattle bag

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence -- The man he killed / Thomas Hardy -- Manners / Elizabeth Bishop -- The marvel / Keith Douglas.…”


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The Wiley Blackwell anthology of African American literature

Table of Contents: “…Various interesting instances of oppression, cruelty, and extortion, Chapter 10. Some account of the manner of the Author's conversion to the faith of Jesus Christ, Chapter 11. …”


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The West : a treasury of art and literature

Table of Contents: “…Contents (cont.): From A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains / Isabella L. …”


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London : a history in verse

Table of Contents: “…The lover to the Thames of London, to favour his lady passing thereon -- Isabella Whitney. The manner of her will, and what she left to London and to all those in it, at her departing -- Edmund Spenser. …”


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Food for thought : an anthology of writings inspired by food

Table of Contents: “…Leale - Celery / Ogden Nash - Attack of the squash people / Marge Piercy - The poetry of a root crop / Charles Kingsley - Parsnips / William Fahey - The cauliflower / John Haines - Nocturn cabbage / Carl Sandburg - Swedes / Edward Thomas.…”


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Century readings in the English essay;

Table of Contents: “…Dana -- Leaves of grass: Standard of the natural universal / John Burboughs -- The Sierra Nevada / John Muir -- A defense of decency in the American novel / William Dean Howells -- Some aspects of the art of fiction / Henry James -- Jungle night / William Beebe -- A cloud of pinafores / Max Beerbohm -- On a great wind / Hilaire Belloc -- A defence of nonsense / Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- Every man's natural desire to be somebody else / Samuel McChord Crothers -- My cousin the bookbinder / Edward Verrall Lucas -- The cult of hope / H.L. Mencken -- The new morality / Paul Elmer More -- The autogenesis of a poet / Christopher Morley -- The greatest of these is charity / Agnes Repplier -- Tradition / Stuart P. …”


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The St. Nicholas anthology

Table of Contents: “…Wilkins ; illustrated by G. W. Edwards -- A great speculation / Rossiter Johnson -- A runaway train / F. …”


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From Beowulf to Thomas Hardy.

Table of Contents: “…Sir Patrick Spens. The three ravens. Edward. Babylon, or, The Bonnie banks o fordie. The Twa sisters. …”


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Complete essays by Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963

Table of Contents: “…ARCHITECTURE, PAINTING, LITERATURE: Proust: The Eighteenth-Century Method -- A Ghost of the Nineties -- (On Essays) -- (Proust and Best-Sellers) -- (Godwin and Bailey) -- (Balzac and Social History) -- (Aristocracy and Literature) -- (Alfieri) -- (Bacon's Symbolism) -- The Cry for a Messiah in the Arts -- The Modern Spirit and a Family Party -- Marie Laurencin: A Woman of Genius -- A Film with a Warning -- The Salzburg Festival -- The Portraits of Augustus John Royalty and a Caricature -- Centenaries -- On Re-reading Candide -- Subject-Matter of Poetry -- Water Music -- Bibliophily -- Accumulations -- On Deviating into Sense -- Polite Conversation -- Nationality in Love -- How the Days Draw In -- Beauty in 1920 -- Great Thoughts -- Advertisements -- Euphues Redivivus -- The Author of Eminent Victorians -- -Edward Thomas -- A Wordsworth Anthology -- Verhaeren -- Edward Lear -- Sir Christopher Wren -- Ben Jonson -- Chaucer -- How to Write a Tragedy -- The Importance of the Comic Genius -- A Ballet in the Modernist Manner -- Fashions in Visual Imagery -- Popular Literature -- Art and Life -- The Spread of Bad Art -- What, Exactly, Is Modern? …”


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Masterplots : 2010 plot stories & essay reviews from the world's fine literature

Table of Contents: “…Wells -- The Knight of the Burning Pestle / Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher -- The Knights / Aristophanes -- The Kreutzer Sonata / Count Leo Tolstoy -- Kristin Lavransdatter / Sigrid Undset -- The Labyrinth of Solitude / Octavio Paz -- The Lady for Ransom / Alfred Duggan -- The Lady from the Sea / Henrik Ibsen -- Lady into Fox / David Garnett -- The Lady of the Lake / Sir Walter Scott -- Lady Windermere's Fan / Oscar Wilde -- The Lady's Not for Burning / Christopher Fry -- L'Aiglon / Edmond Rostand -- Le Lais / Franc̥ois Villon -- The Lais of Marie de France / Marie de France -- Lalla Rookh / Thomas Moore -- L'Amorosa Fiammetta / Giovanni Boccaccio -- The Last Athenian / Viktor Rydberg -- The Last Chronicle of Barset / Anthony Trollope -- The Last Days of Pompeii / Edward George Earle Bulwer- Lytton -- The Last of Summer / Kate O'Brien -- The Last of the Barons / Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton -- The Last of the Mohicans / James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Vikings / Johan Bojer -- The Last of the Wine / Mary Renault -- The Last Puritan / George Santayana -- The Last Tycoon / F. …”


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Youth's companion

Table of Contents: “…Franklin and His Mother -- Uncle Abel and Little Edward / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- A Yankee in Russia -- How To Bring Up Bad Children -- Editor's Northern Tour: Saratoga Springs -- The Butterfly's Hope / F.S. …”


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Sketches of the early Catholic missions of Kentucky; from their commencement in 1787 to the jubilee of 1826-7. by Spalding, M. J. (Martin John), 1810-1872

Table of Contents: “…Rose ; The new noviciate ; Bishop Concannon ; Father Wilson's learning, virtues, labours and death ; Father Edward Fenwick ; His zeal and labours ; 'Stray sheep' ; Humorous adventure with an old lady ; His missionary labours in Ohio ; Founding of St. …”


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Great sea stories of all nations,

Table of Contents: “…France: How Pantagruel met with a great storm at sea and of what countenance Panurge and Friar John kept therein / Francois Rabelais -- How Captain Jean Ribault came to Florida and of what befell the men he left there / Rene de Laudonniere -- Telemachus in the Island of Cyprus / Francois de la Mothe-Fenelon -- Shipwreck of a modest young lady / Bernadin de Saint-Pierre -- How malicious Gilliatt fought the tempest / Victor Hugo -- Gunner's fight with the carronade / Victor Hugo -- How Dantes escaped from the Chateau d'If / Alexandre Dumas -- Whale of unknown species / Jules Verne -- Atlantis / Jules Verne -- Ocean Christ / Anatole France -- How St. …”


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Modern Greek poetry

Table of Contents: “…; Préveza / Kostas Kariotakis, 1896-1928 -- from Myth of our history ; In the manner of G.S. (aboard the Avlís, waiting to sail) ; A word for summer ; Epiphany, 1937 ; Interlude of joy (Mr. …”


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World literature; an anthology of human experience.

Table of Contents: “…Prescott -- The Fall of the Bastile / Jean Fracois Marmontel -- The Victory of the Americans over Burgoyne at Saratoga / Sir Edward S. Creasy -- The Discovery of Radium / Eve Curie…”


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The Norton anthology of American literature. Volume E, Literature since 1945

Table of Contents: “…Ruin stared straight back") ; 384 ("The marker slants, flowerless, day's almost done") / John Berryman (1914-1972) -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) -- Invisible man ; Prologue ; Chapter I [Battle royal] / Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) -- The adventures of Augie March ; Chapter One / Saul Bellow (1915-2005) -- Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller (1915-2005) -- Colloquy in black rock ; The Quaker graveyard in Nantucket ; Mr. Edwards and the spider ; My last afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow ; Memories of West Street and Lepke ; Skunk hour ; Night sweat ; For the union dead / Robert Lowell (1917-1977) -- A street in Bronzeville ; kitchenette building ; the mother ; a song in the front yard ; The white troops had their orders but the Negroes looked like men ; The womanhood ; The children of the poor (II) ; We real cool ; The bean eaters ; A bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi. …”


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The Field Day anthology of Irish writing

Table of Contents: “…An Irish ballad / Mary O'Brien (fl. 1783-90) ; The wake of William Orr ; The green little shamrock of Ireland / Andrew Cherry (1762-1812) ; Song ; The irishman / James Orr ; Oliver's advice / William Blacker (1777-1855) ; Checklist of poems and sources ; General bibliography ; Biographies/Bibliographies -- Drama 1690-1800 / Christopher Murray ; Introduction ; fom: The recruiting officer (1706) ; from: The Beaux' strategem (1707) / George Farquhar (1677-1707) ; from: The conscious lovers / Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729) ; The brave Irishman; or, Captain O'Blunder (1743) / Thomas Sheridan (1719-88) ; from: The true-born Irishman; or, the Irish fine lady (1762) / Charles Macklin (1699-1797) ; from: All the wrong (1761) / Arthur Murphy (1727-1805) ; from: False Delicacy, from: the school for wives (1773) / Hugh Kelly (1739-77) ; She stoops to conquer; or, the mistakes of a night (1773) / Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74) ; The rivals / Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) ; from: Tony Lumpkin in town (1780) ; from: The poor soldier (1783) / John O'Keeffe (1747-1833) ; Textual note ; Biographies/Bibliographies -- Oliver Goldsmith: miscellaneous writings 1759-74 / Seamus Deane: Introduction ; from: An enquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe (1759) ; from: The bee (27 October 1759) ; A description of the manners and customs of the native Irish. …”


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Honest work : a business ethics reader

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Captive comedies : 8 movie collection by Lurie, John, 1952-

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History of women in the United States : historical articles on women's lives and activities

Table of Contents: “…Kyvig -- Ladies' Day at the Capitol: women strike for peace versus HUAC / Amy Swerdlow -- The gender basis of American social policy / Virginia Sapiro.…”


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