Nowe wydanie Antologii literatury amerykańskiej, prezentującej szeroki wybór tekstów od początków literatury amerykańskiej do końca II wojny światowej. Utwory każdego autora poprzedzone są notatką biograficzną oraz krótką charakterystyką twórczości.

CONTENTS 

The Literature of Colonial America 

JOHN SMITH 
from The Generał History of Virginia 
The Third Book. Chapter I 
The Third Book. Chapter II 

JOHN WINTHROP 
A Model of Christian Charity 

WILLIAM BRADFORD 
from Of Plymouth Plantation 
Book I, Chapter I 
Book I, Chapter IX 
Book I, Chapter X 
Book II, Chapter XI 
Book II, Chapter XXIII 

ANNE BRADSTREET 
The Prologue 
Before the Birth of One of Her Children 
To My Dear and Loving Husband 
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet 
Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1661 
from Meditarions Divine and Moral 

EDWARD TAYLOR 
Prologue 
Meditation Eight (First Series) 
Meditation Thirty-Nine (First Series) 
Huswifery 
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly 
from Sermon VI 

SAMUEL SEWALL 
from The Diary of Samuel Sewall 

COTTON MATHER 
from The Wonders of the Invisible World 
The Trial of Martha Carrier 

JONATHAN EDWARDS 
from Personal Narrative 
Sarah Pierrepont 
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 
from Images or Shadows of Divine Things 

The Literature of Reason and Revolution 

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 
from Poor Richard Improved, 1758 
The Autobiography 

THOMAS PAINE 
from Common Sense 
from The Agę of Reason 
Chapter I. The Author's Profession of Faith 
Chapter II. Of Missions ąnd Revelations 
Chapter XI. Of the Theology of the Christians, 
and the True Theology 

THOMAS JEFFERSON 
The Declaration of Independence as Adopted by Congress 
Letter to Peter Carr 
Letter to Nathaniel Burwell, Esq. 

PHIL1P FRENEAU 
The Wild Honey Suckle 
The Indian Burying Ground 

The Age of Romanticism 

WASHINGTON IRYING 
Rip Van Winkle 
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER 
from The Pioneers 
[The Pigeons] 

RALPH WALDO EMERSON 
from Nature 
Introduction 
I. Nature 
II. Commodity 
III. Beauty 
IV. Language 
The American Scholar 
from Self-Reliancc 
Hamatreya 
Days 

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 
The Minister's Black Veil 
Young Goodman Brown 
Rappaccini's Daughter 
Ethan Brand 

EDGAR ALLAN POE 
The Rayen 
Annabel Lee 
Ligeia 
The Fali of the House of Usher 
The Black Cat 
The Cask of Amontillado 
from The Philosophy of Composition 

HENRY DAV1D THOREAU 
Civil Disobedience 
Walden. 
I. Economy 

HERMAN MELYILLE 
from Billy Budd 

The Age of Realism 

WALT WHITMAN 
Preface to the 1855 Edidon of Leaves of Grass 
Song of Myself 
Out of the Cradle Endlessiy Rocking 
Reconciliation 
When Ulacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 

EMILY DICKINSON 
49 I never lost as much but twice, 
67 Success is counted sweetest 
130 These are the days when Birds come back— 
185 "Faith" is a fine invention 
214 I taste a liquor never brewed— 
216 Safe in their Alabaster Chambers— 
241 I like a look of Agony, 
280 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, 
303 The Soul selects her own Society— 
315 Hę fumbles at your Soul 
328 A Bird came down the Walk— 
435 Much Madness is divinest Sense— 
441 This is my letter to the World 
449 I died for Beauty—but was scarce 
465 I heard a Fly buzz—when I died— 
501 This World is not Conclusion. 
520 I started Early—Took my Dog— 
709 Publication—is the Auction 
712 Because I could not stop for Death— 
986 A narrow Fellow in the Grass 
1078 The Bustle in a House 
1129 Tell all the truth but tell it slant— 
1333 A little Madness in the Spring 
1356 The Rat is the concisest Tenant. 
1400 What mystery pervades a well! 
1545 The Bible is an antique Volume— 
1670 In Winter in my Room 

MARK TWAIN 
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences 

HENRY JAMES 
The Real Thing 
The Art of Fiction 

STEPHEN CRANE 
Black Riders Came from the Sea 
The Open Boat 

SHERWOOD ANDERSON 
from Winesburg, Ohio 
The Book of the Grotesque 
Hands 
Paper Pills 
Mother 

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 
Babylon Revisited 

INDEX