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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... seemed to reach out in galloping bounds . The buckboard creaked , bounced , jolted and swayed . Zaïda clutched her shawl while Telèsphore drew his straw hat further down over his right eye and offered to drive . But he did not know the ...
... seemed to reach out in galloping bounds . The buckboard creaked , bounced , jolted and swayed . Zaïda clutched her shawl while Telèsphore drew his straw hat further down over his right eye and offered to drive . But he did not know the ...
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... seemed much like making bricks without straw . The coloured people were overjoyed , and were constantly offering their services in any way in which they could be of assistance in getting the school started . My first task was to find a ...
... seemed much like making bricks without straw . The coloured people were overjoyed , and were constantly offering their services in any way in which they could be of assistance in getting the school started . My first task was to find a ...
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... seemed to conspire to make it impossible to succeed . I thought of his sigh and of his helpless look a day or two afterward , when I was told that one thousand acres of his plantation had been flooded and badly injured by the offensive ...
... seemed to conspire to make it impossible to succeed . I thought of his sigh and of his helpless look a day or two afterward , when I was told that one thousand acres of his plantation had been flooded and badly injured by the offensive ...
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A Plantation Echo | 106 |
The Edisto Raftsman | 122 |
Selections from Slave Narratives and Diaries | 131 |
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