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1. John Updike novels 1959-1965
2. John Updike novels 1968-1975
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333.
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Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate...
4. John Updike novels 1978-1984
5. Jean Stafford: complete stories & other writings
6. Black Reconstruction: an essay toward a history of the part which Black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880
7. Gary Snyder: collected poems
8. Frederick Douglass: speeches & writings
9. Jim Crow : voices from a century of struggle. Part one, 1876-1919: Reconstruction to the Red Summer
11. Donald Barthelme: collected stories
12. Elizabeth Spencer novels & stories: The voice at the back door / The light in the Piazza / Knights and dragons / Selected stories
13. Joan Didion: the 1980s & 90s
14. Plymouth Colony: narratives of English-Indian encounter from the Mayflower to King Philip's War
15. Ray Bradbury novels & story cycles: The Martian chronicles / Fahrenheit 451 / Dandelion wine / Something wicked this way comes
16. S. J. Perelman: Writings
17. Don Delillo: three novels of the 1980s
18. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings, 1920-26
19. The future Is female!: the 1970s: more classic science fiction stories by women
20. Oscar Hijuelos: the Mambo Kings and other novels
21. Ray Bradbury: The illustrated man, the October country & other stories
22. Rudolfo Anaya: three novels
23. Black writers of the Founding Era: 1760-1800
24. The naked and the dead: &, Selected letters 1945-1946
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“Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin
When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed “genre” literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from fashionable...
—Ursula K. Le Guin
When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed “genre” literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from fashionable...