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The Portable North American Indian Reader compiles myths, tales, poetry, and oratory from the Iroquois, Cherokee, Winnebago, Sioux, Blackfeet, Hopi, and many other tribes. In addition, Frederick Turner includes a number of "culture contact" selections-explorers' accounts, captives' narratives, and Indian autobiographies-as well as a section on the conflicting popular images of the Indian in white literature and, finally, contemporary reassessm...

Early modern Russian poets, among them Anna Akhmatova, Nikolai Gumilev, Boris Pasternak, Andrei Biely, Sergei Yesienin, Alexander Blok, and Valdimir Mayakovsky, are included. Brief biocritical sketches precede each selection.

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Mimicry of and ribaldry in American literature from its beginnings to the "Lost (and Found) Generation." E.B. White, H.G. Wells, Stephen Crane, Henry David Thoreau and Corey Ford are among the contributors.

Iris Murdoch's debut-a comic novel about work and love, wealth and fameJake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Bellfounder, silent philosopher.Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. He resumes acquaintance with the formidable Hugo, whose 'philosophy' he once presumptuously dared to interpret. These meetings involve Jake and his eccentric ...

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Includes A Summary View of the Rights of British America and Notes on the State of Virginia complete, seventy-nine letters, "Response to the Citizens of Albemarle, " 1790, "Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank, " 1791, and many other writings.

Centerburg might be your town. Grampa Hercules and his never-ending tall tales, Dulcy Dooner, the uncooperative citizen, unbusinesslike Uncle Ulysses and his friendly lunchroom, the flustered sheriff, the pompous judge—they are all as American as they come. But there's a subtle and delightful difference. In Centerburg, along with the routine of day-to-day living, the most preposterous things keep happening.But nothing fazes Homer Price! Ragwee...

Winner of the Newbery MedalIt has been a while since Folks lived in the Big House, and an even longer time has passed since there has been a garden at the House. All the animals of the Hill are very excited about the new Folks moving in, and they wonder how things are going to change. It's only a matter of time before the animals of the Hill find out just who is moving in, and they may be a little bit surprised when they do."Robert Lawson has ...