The Oxford book of American short stories

Rip Van Winkle / Peter Rugg -- Missing man / Wives of the dead / Paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids / Tell-tale heart / Ghost in the mill / Cannibalism in the cars / White heron / Storm / Sheriff's children / Yellow wallpaper / Middle years / In a far country / Old woman Magoun / Little regiment / A journey / Strength of God

House on Mango Street ; What Sally said ; Linoleum roses ; A house of my own / Town Smokes

Death in the desert / Blood-burning moon / A clean, well-lighted place / An alcoholic case / Girl with a pimply face / He / That evening sun / Sweat / Red-headed baby / Man who was almost a man / A distant episode / A late encounter with the enemy / Sonny's blues / Battle Royal / There will come soft rains / Rain in the heart / Where is the voice coming from?

Lecture / My son the murderer / Something to remember me by / Death of Justina / Texts / School / Alaska / Are these actual miles? / Yellow Woman / Shawl / Heat / Hunters in the snow / Things they carried / Big Bertha stories / Fever / Management of grief / Two kinds / Fleur / Gravity

The 50 funniest American writers : an anthology of humor from Mark Twain to the Onion

Fifty funniest American writers

A special publication of The library of America

A presidential candidate / The lecture tickets that were bought but never used / The ransom of Red Chief / From Babbitt / From Gentlemen prefer blondes / On conversation / Imperial purple / More alarms at night / The waltz / Farewell, my lovely appetizer / Simple prays a prayer / The night the old nostalgia burned down / Across the street and into the grill / The house of mirth / From The magic Christian / From How to talk dirty and influence people / The secret vice / The counterfeit secret circle member gets the message, or The asp strikes again / The Kentucky Derby is decadent and depraved / A look at organized crime / The tax man / Letters to Einstein / A few words about breasts / Our white heritage / Better read than dead : a revised opinion / Your action line / In the morning post / Curb Carter policy discord effort threat / Vacation '58 / The laws of cartoon motion / The Tip-Top Club / Rolled in rare Bohemian onyx, then vulcanized by hand / Tough as bob war and other stuff / Corrections / Tips for women : how to have a relationship with a guy / Clinton deploys vowels to Bosnia / Shiftless little loafers / Gothic baseball / If I were in charge of the networks / Laws concerning food and drink ; Household principles ; Lamentations of the father / The writer's life / From I ain't scared of you / Buddy, can you spare a tie? / It's so hard / What I'd say to the Martians / Your three wishes : F.A.Q. / Ask the optimist! / Awake / The pony problem / If not an apology, at least a "my bad"

Music of the Alaska-Klondike gold rush : songs & history

LanternLight library

LanternLight library.

Carmack song ; Just from Dawson ; The Mountie's song (Life on the ocean wave) ; Yukona ; Chilkoot march ; Banks of the Yukon (On the banks of the Wabash, far away) ; Song of the salmon (A hot time in the old town) ; The Klondike gold rush ; Wanted--my darling papa ; The old Green Mountain home ; Arctic brotherhood two-step ; Bah, bah, black sheep ; Cheechako Lil ; When the ice worms nest again -- He is sleeping in the Klondike vale tonight ; The Klondike, march of the gold miners ; In Klondyke's field of gold ; Billy Pike of Klondike ; To Klondyke we've paid our fare ; Golden nugget quick-step ; With the gold I'll bring from Klondike ; Klondike or bust! ; The man who struck it rich in Klondike ; The Klondike grand march ; The gold seeker : march and two step ; Klondyke : march and two step ; The gold hunters : march brillante ; Klondike : two-step ; Belle of the Klondike : two step ; The Washington post : march ; Dawson City dude march ; Klondyke frolic ; Klondike gold ; I've got the Klondike fever ; The belle of the Klondike (vocal) ; Rory, Bory, Alice ; In the far off Alaska clime ; Off to Klondyke ; The return from Klondyke ; On the Yukon's golden shore ; A Klondiker's sweetheart ; On the banks of the Yukon far away ; In the Klondyke ; Klondike rag -- Ta-ra-ra boom-de-aye! ; Irish washerwoman ; The Irishman's shanty ; Dear Evelina, sweet Evelina ; Mountain canary ; Turkey in the straw ; Buffalo gals ; The girl I left behind me ; The miner's lament (Lilly Dale) ; Home, sweet home ; Throw out the life-line ; If you love me, darling, tell me with your eyes ; The fishermaiden ; Such a nice girl, too ; The cat came back ; She may have seen better days ; It don't seem like the same old smile ; I love you in the same old way ; She is more to be pitied than censured ; Keep a place at the table for Jack ; The flag that has never known defeat ; Marching through Georgia ; A bird in a gilded cage ; Break the news to mother ; Those wedding bells shall not ring out ; Two little girls in blue ; Sweet Marie ; Old folks at home ; Some folks ; Down went McGinty ; After the ball ; The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo ; Annie Laurie ; The beautiful blue Danube ; Sweet Alice, Ben Bolt ; Johnny Schmoker ; Let the sunshine in ; Beulah Land ; Though your sins be as scarlet ; Irish jubilee ; Just behind the times ; La donna è mobile ; Just one girl ; Sweet bunch of daisies ; Take back your gold ; You're not the only pebble on the beach ; All bound round with a woolen string ; Why don't you write a letter home ; In the baggage coach ahead ; Once in a purple twilight ; Asleep in the deep ; Boozer Brown (Bolsum Brown).

The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970 : an anthology

Doubleday/Anchor AO-73

Negro poets of the U.S.A. Bars Fight / An Evening Thought / His Excellency General Washington ; On Imagination / On Liberty and Slavery / Epigram / The Slave Auction ; Let the Light Enter / Verse Written in the Album of Mademoiselle / The Feet of Judas / The Way-side Well / Miss Melerlee / A Litany at Atlanta / Paul Laurence Dunbar ; An Indignation Dinner / O Black and Unknown Bards ; My City ; Lift Every Voice and Sing / Sympathy ; Dawn ; A Negro Love Song ; When Malindy Sings ; Little Brown Baby ; A Death Song ; Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes ; Compensation / Sonnet / The House of Falling Leaves ; The Watchers ; White Magic: An Ode / The Teacher ; Tuskegee / A Winter Twilight ; For the Candle Light ; When the Green Lies over the Earth ; Tenebris / My Hero / Life Long, Poor Browning ... ; Letter to My Sister ; At the Carnival ; Lines to a Nasturtium ; For Jim, Easter Eve / Enigma ; La Vie C'est la Vie ; Dead Fires ; Oblivion / Morning Light ; Arctic Tern in a Museum ; Little Birches / The Heart of a Woman ; Youth ; Remember ; The Suppliant ; Old Black Men ; Interracial ; I Closed My Shutters Fast Last Night ; Recessional ; My Little Dreams / San Francisco ; Villanelle of Washington Square ; View Carré / Rulers : The Banjo Player ; The Scarlet Woman ; Tired ; Aunt Jane Allen ; When I Die ; The Lonley Mother ; Who Is That A-walking in the Corn? / Status Quo ; At Early Morn / The Tropics in New York ; After the Winter ; Spring in New Hampshire ; A Song of the Moon ; Harlem Shadows ; America ; White Houses ; If We Must Die ; Baptism ; Flame-heart / Banking Coal ; The Blue Meridian / Supplication ; And What Shall You Say? / Dark Symphony ; Lamda ; Do / On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church ; Kid Stuff ; Toast ; Letters Found Near a Suicide / The Craftsman ; McDonogh Day in New Orleans / Nocturne Varial ; Dream Song ; Transformation / The Elevator Man Adheres to Form ; Best Loved of Africa ; Dance of the Abakweta / After Winter ; Old Lem ; Foreclosure ; Remembering Nat Turner ; Sister Lou / The Mask ; Solace ; Joy ; Interim

I, Too, Sing America ; Dream Variation ; The Weary Blues ; Mother to Son ; The Negro Speaks of Rivers ; Personal ; Havana Deams ; Harlem Sweeties ; Merry-Go-Round ; Let America Be America Again ; I Thought It Was Tangiers I Wanted ; Song for a Suicide ; Harlem ; Birmingham Sunday ; Motto ; Cultural Exchange / Sonnets ; Lines Written At the Grave of Aleandre Dumas / A Black Man Talks of Reaping ; Miracles ; Nocturne at Bethesda ; Southern Mansion ; Length of Moon ; The Return ; Idolatry ; Close Your Eyes! ; Golgotha Is a Mountain ; A Note of Humility ; The Daybreakers ; Nocturne of the wharves ; God Give to Men / Epitaph for a Bigot ; Green Valley / For a Poet ; The Wise ; For a Lady I Know ; Incident ; Yet Do I Marvel ; Youth Sings a Song of Rosebuds ; From the Dark Tower / The Resurrection ; My Angel ; And One Shall Live in Two ; Muse in Late November ; She Said ... / Poet ; Haven ; Appoggiatura ; Benedicion / Four Glimpses of Night ; I Sing No New Songs ; Robert Whitmore ; Flowers of Darkness / Northboun̕ / Forgotten Dreams ; On the Death of a Child / Summer Matures ; Fulfillment ; Magalu ; Remember Not ; Invocation ; The Road / Face of Poverty / Urgency / Adjuration ; Tumult / Plans ; A Young David; Birmingham ; Words / Without Name / Heart of the Woods / Freedom in Mah Soul ; Western Town / A Boy's Need ; Crossing a Creek ; Willow Bend and Weep ; On Calvary's Lonely Hill / The Letter / O Daedalus, Fly Away Home ; Homage to the Empress of the Blues ; A Ballad of Remembrance ; Runagate Runagate ; Frederick Douglass / Creole Girl / Six O'Clock ; Rag Doll and Summer Birds ; Counterpoint ; Epitaph for a Negro Woman ; The Decision ; Poem for My Brother Kenneth / Memorial Wreath ; Legacy: My South / Where Have You Gone? ... ; If There Be Sorrow

Molly Means ; We Have Been Believers ; For My People ; October Journey ; Harriet Tubman ; For Mary McLeod Bethune / This Hour / Be Daedalus / Ultimate Equality ; Basic / The Fishes and the Poet's Hands / Kitchenette Building ; The Birth in a Narrow Room ; "pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps" ; First Fight. Then Fiddle ; The Wall / Here and Now / Prayer ; Another Day / To Satch ; What Bright Pushbutton? / To an Avenue Sport / Blues for Bessie ; Two Leaqn Cats ... ; Young Poet ; Sunset Horn / Journey to a Parallel ; The African Affair / Portrait Philippines ; Sonnet / Time and Tide / Song ; Notes for a Movie Script ; Letter Across Doubt and Distance ; And on This Shore -- Picnic: The Liberated / Paternal ; Mae's Rent Party / A Folding and Unfolding / Church Burning: Mississippi ; Black Muslim Boy in a Hospital ; Son To a Brown Girl / Refugee ; Midway ; Mortality / A Private Letter to Brazil ; The Map / Clubwoman ; Jungle / In Spite of All This Much Needed Thunder / Christophe / For William Edward Burghardt DuBois on his Eightieth Birthday / Black Man's Feast / Jazz / Miles' Delight / I've Got a Home in that Rock / Three Kings / To Vanity / Dream / Madhouse / Four Sheets to the Wind and a One-way Ticket to France / Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note ; Epistrophe / Suburbia / Afterwards, They Shall Dance ; Cincophrenicpoet ; Benediction / Letter from a Wife / A Juju of My Own / The Feral Pioneers-for Dancer / Poems; Birmingham 1962-1964 ; Moths ; Birmingham ; Alabama / Cities and Seas ; Ending / Floodtide ; Othello Jones dresses for dinner ; 18,000 feet ; eclipse / Just Making it (Blood for Sale) ; The Worker / Look at That Gal / Gift / Brainwashing Dramatized / Sketches of Harlem ; Downtown-Boy Uptown / Memorandum

Tributary poems by non-Negroes -- The Little Black Boy / To Toussaint L'Ouverture / The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point / The Slave's Dream / The Farewell / Stanzas on Freedom / "Formerly a Slave" / The Runaway Slave ; The Wounded Person ; The Drayman ; Ethiopia Saluting the Colors / Toussaint L'Ouverture / The Bird and the Tree / Mammy Hums ; Jazz Fantasia / The Congo / Defeat / Echoes of Childhood ; Uncle Jim ; Delphy / How Old Brown Took Harpers Ferry / Porgy, Maria, and Bess / The Stong Swimmer / Elegy on a Nordic White Protestant / Arthur Mitchell / Upstairs Downstairs / Negroes ; Lynched Negro ; Poem to Negro and Whites / Small Colored Boy in the Subway / Little White Schoolhouse Blues / The World Looks On / Creed / John Brown's Prayer / Sonnets at Christmas (II) / Last Impression of New York ; In War ; Big Man ; Pico Della Mirandola ; Things of the Spirit ; Pen Hy Cane / A Communication to Nancy Cunard / They Are Ours / Boogie-Woogie Ballads / Street Scene -- 1946 / Slave Story / Norris Dam ; Daphne ; On a Picture by Pippin, Called "The Den" ; Harpers Ferry / Singing in the Dark / My South / Negro Spiritual / Songs for a Colored Singer / Government Injunction / Nice Day for a Lynching / Lenox Avenue ; The Castle / The Trial / Recapitulations XI ; The Southerner / Say Good-bye to Big Daddy / To a Negro Boy Graduating ; Countee Cullen / Bim Bam / Juncture / Recessional for the Class of 1959 of a School for Delinquent Negro Girls / Buckdancer's Choice / Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets / Requiem for "Bird" Parker / The Memory of Boxer Benny (Kid) Paret / Biographical notes Author Biographies Author index First line index.