literary collections

Presents selections of American literature drawn from throughout history, beginning with stories of the creation of the world, and continuing to 1820, and includes a time line, and bibliographies.

Features over one hundred forty selections of the American West from diaries and travelogues to short stories and stone inscriptions.

Selections from major voices in Australian literature encompassing short stories, memoirs, novels, and aboriginal writings.

A collection of Western stories, poems, essays, and excerpts from more than seventy authors.

Contains essays written in the years between 1929 and the 1940s by writers employed by the Work Projects Administration who were assigned to gather information about the lives of ordinary men and women living in New York's Harlem.

Stories, folktales, and poems with a western setting, including stories of Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Indian legends, and tales of Lewis and Clark, among others.

A collection of writing about the North and South Poles, featuring contributions from novelists, explorers, and natural scientists, including Jules Verne, Robert Peary, Jack London, Barry Lopez, and others.

Presents twenty-six short stories, set in the Civil War, by nineteenth-century American author Ambrose Bierce, and also includes Bierce's memoirs of the war and chronicles of major battles.

Contains an anthology of short stories, novels, autobiographies, diaries, memoirs, and articles produced in the South from the late eighteenth century to the present.

A collection of more than one hundred stories, essays, and poems that try to capture the spirit, culture, people, and politics of New York City.