A New Reader of the Old South: Major Stories, Tales, Slave Narratives, Diaries, Travelogues, Poetry and Songs, 1820-1920Ben Forkner, Patrick H. Samway Peachtree Publishers, 1991 - 644 էջ The literary Canon of the old South is redefined in this remarkable companion to the highly acclaimed A Modern Southern Reader. The literary canon of the old South is redefined in this remarkable companion to the highly acclaimed A Modern Southern Reader. Editors Ben Forkner and Patrick Samway, S. J. have selected from the most original and lasting works of nineteenth-century Southern writing (1820-1920) to reflect the full range of the Southern experience. The thorough introduction illuminates the individual pieces, providing insight into the culture of the Old South, from which rose a new generation of prominent, American writers. Features the work of Kate Chopin, Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ellen Glasgow, Henry Grady, Joel Chandler Harris, Thomas Jefferson, James Weldon Johnson, Sidney Lanier, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, and many others. |
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... close by , and my horse was too tired to run , so I just drew my sabre and waved it in the air . They knew from this that support was near me . In a few seconds our advance guard under Lieutenant Robbins appeared in sight , and the ...
... close by , and my horse was too tired to run , so I just drew my sabre and waved it in the air . They knew from this that support was near me . In a few seconds our advance guard under Lieutenant Robbins appeared in sight , and the ...
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... close confinement in this or any place , cut off virtually from free communication with home ; cut off from all communication , free and full communication , I mean , with Linton , the light of my life . This is not much short of a ...
... close confinement in this or any place , cut off virtually from free communication with home ; cut off from all communication , free and full communication , I mean , with Linton , the light of my life . This is not much short of a ...
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... close room , with any chance stranger the clerk of the house might choose to couple me with , I shouldered my baggage and ran for the wharves . At half - past ten I was looking at Wilmington over the stern of another little wheelbarrow ...
... close room , with any chance stranger the clerk of the house might choose to couple me with , I shouldered my baggage and ran for the wharves . At half - past ten I was looking at Wilmington over the stern of another little wheelbarrow ...
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A Plantation Echo | 106 |
The Edisto Raftsman | 122 |
Selections from Slave Narratives and Diaries | 131 |
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