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MAGILL's SURVEY of AMERICAN LITERATURE Revised Edition MAGILL'S SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE Revised Edition Volume 3 H. D.—Larsen Edited by Steven G. Kellman University of Texas, San Antonio SALEM PRESS, INC. Pasadena, California Hackensack, New Jersey CONTENTS Complete List of Contents xlvii "Wakefield" "The Minister's Black Veil" "The Old Manse" H. D 953 The Scarlet Letter "Oread" The House of the Seven Gables "The Garden" Trilogy Robert Hayden 1016 "Middle Passage" Alex Haley 961 "Words in the Mourning Time" Roots "Runagate Runagate" Dashiell Hammett 966 AnneHebert 1022 Red Harvest Kamouraska The Maltese Falcon Heloise The Thin Man In the Shadow of the Wind Lorraine Hansberry 974 Anthony Hecht 1028 A Raisin in the Sun "A Hill" The Sign in Sidney Brustein 's Window "More Light! More Light!" Joy Harjo 980 'The Deodand" "She Had Some Horses" "TheBookofYolek" "The Woman Hanging from the Robert A. Heinlein 1034 Thirteenth Floor Window" Red Planet "Javelina" Citizen of the Galaxy "For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Whose Starship Troopers Spirit Is Present Here and in the Stranger in a Strange Land Dappled Stars (for we remember The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress the story and must tell it again so we may all live)" Joseph Heller 1046 "The Flood" Catch-22 "The Path to the Milky Way Leads Something Happened Through Los Angeles" Lillian Hellman 1052 Michael S. Harper 989 The Children's Hour "Dear John, Dear Coltrane" Watch on the Rhine "Grandfather" An Unfinished Woman "Nightmare Begins Responsibility" Pentimento "Double Elegy" MarkHelprin 1060 "Peace on Earth" "A Dove of the East" BretHarte 997 "A Vermont Tale" "The Luck of Roaring Camp" Winter's Tale 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat" A Soldier of the Great War "Mar Nueva" ' Nathaniel Hawthorne 1004 "The Pacific" "My Kinsman, Major Molineaux" "Young Goodman Brown" xliii MAGILL'S SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE Ernest Hemingway 1068 S. E. Hinton 1133 The Sun Also Rises The Outsiders "Now I Lay Me" That Was Then, This Is Now A Farewell to Arms Rumble Fish "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" Tex "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" Taming the Star Runner For Whom the Bell Tolls 1141 The Old Man and the Sea Linda Hogan "Planting a Cedar" Beth Henley 1080 "Bees in Transit: Osage County" Crimes of the Heart 'The New Apartment: Minneapolis" The Wake ofjamey Foster 1148 The Miss Firecracker Contest Garrett Hongo "Yellow Light" O. Henry 1086 "Cruising 99" "The Cop and the Anthem" "Something Whispered in the "The Gift of the Magi" Shakuhachi" "The Furnished Room" "Ancestral Graves, Kahuku" "A Municipal Report" William Dean Howells 1155 Frank Herbert 1092 A Modern Instance The Dune Series The Rise of Silas Lapham Indian Summer Patricia Highsmith 1098 A Hazard of New Fortunes Strangers on a Train The Talented Mr. Ripley Langston Hughes 1165 Oscar Hijuelos 1104 "Home" Our House in the Last World "The Blues I'm Playing" The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers" The Fourteen Sisters ofEmilio Montez 'The Weary Blues" O'Brien, "Mulatto" Empress of the Splendid Season "The Negro Mother" A Simple Habana Melody: From When Zora Neale Hurston 1175 the World Was Good Mules and Men Their Eyes Were Watching God Tony Hillerman 1112 Moses, Man of the Mountain Dance Hall of the Dead Dust Tracks on a Road A Thief of Time Coyote Waits David Henry Hwang . 1184 Chester Himes 1119 F.O.B. Rich Relations The Collected Stories of Chester Himes M. Butterfly The Crazy Kill Bondage Cotton Comes to Harlem Trying to Find Chinatown If He Hollers Let Him Go Golden Child Rolando Hinojosa 1126 Korean Love Songs from Klail City 1194 Death Trip John Irving Setting Free the Bears Mi querido Rafa/Dear Rafe The World According to Garp Becky and Her Friends The Hotel New Hampshire The Useless Servants The Cider House Rules xliv CONTENTS A Prayer for Owen Meany Charles Johnson t. 1269 A Son of the Circus Faith and the Good Thing A Widow for One Year The Sorcerer's Apprentice Middle Passage Washington Irving 1206 The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. James Weldon Johnson 1275 "Rip Van Winkle" The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" Man "Fifty Years" "The Creation" Shirley Jackson 1213 "Brothers" "The Lottery" The Haunting of Hill House We Have Always Lived in the Castle Cynthia Kadohata 1282 The Boating World Henry James 1219 In the Heart of the Valley of Love Daisy Miller Kira-Kira The Portrait of a Lady What Maisie Knew Garrison Keillor 1289 The Turn of the Screw Happy to Be Here The Ambassadors Lake Wobegon Days The Golden Bowl Leaving Home The Aspern Papers We Are Still Married Wobegon Boy Randall Jarrell 1230 Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 "90 North" "Second Air Force" Adrienne Kennedy , 1300 "The Death of the Ball Turret A Rat's Mass Gunner" A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and "The Marchen" White "Girl in a Library" The Ohio State Murders "Next Day" William Kennedy 1307 "The Player Piano" Legs Robinson Jeffers 1237 Billy Phelan's Greatest Game Tamar Ironweed "Roan Stallion" Quinn 's Book "The Loving Shepherdess" The Flaming Corsage Descent to the Dead Roscoe Gish Jen 1247 JackKerouac 1317 Typical American On the Road Mona in the Promised Land The Dharma Bums Who's Irish? M. E. Kerr 1324 Sarah Ornejewett 1254 If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever? "A White Heron" Night Kites "Miss Tempy's Watchers" Deliver Us from Evie "ANativeofWinby" Ken Kesey 1330 The Country of the Pointed Firs One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest Ha Jin 1263 Sometimes a Great Notion Waiting The Further Inquiry War Trash xlv MAGILL'S SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE Jamaica Kincaid 1339 JoyKogawa 1396 "Girl" Obasan Anniejohn The Rain Ascends ' Lucy Yusef Komunyakaa 1402 The Autobiography of My Mother Dien CaiDau My Garden (Book) "Sunday Afternoons" Stephen King 1347 Thirteen Kinds of Desire Carrie Jerzy Kosinski 1408 'Salem's Lot The Painted Bird The Shining Steps The Stand Being There Misery Dolores Claiborne Stanley Kunitz 1415 Bag of Bones A Kind of Order, a Kind of Folly: Hearts in Atlantis Essays and Conversations "Father and Son" Barbara Kingsolver 1361 The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928-1978 The Bean Trees "After the Last Dynasty" Homeland, and Other Stories 'The Snakes of September" Pigs in Heaven "The Wellfieet Whale" The Poisonwood Bible Prodigal Summer TonyKushner 1423 Angels in America Maxine Hong Kingston 1369 Homebody/Kabul The Woman Warrior Caroline, or Change China Men Tripmaster Monkey To Be the Poet Louis L'Amour . 1430 The Fifth Book of Peace Hondo The Daybreakers 1382 W. P. Kinsella Bendigo Shafter Shoeless Joe The Walking Drum The Moccasin Telegraph, and Other Stories Ring Lardner 1439 The Iowa Baseball Confederacy "Some Like Them Cold" Brother Frank's Gospel Hour, and "The Golden Honeymoon" Other Stories "Haircut" John Knowles . 1389 Nella Larsen 1445 A Separate Peace Quicksand A "Vein of Riches Passing xlvi.
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