Welty, Eudora, 582–89; “Clytie,” 588; A Curtain of Green, 582, 586–89; “The Death of a Traveling Salesman,” 585, 588; “The Hitch-Hiker,” 588; “Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden,” 587; “Lily Daw and the Three Ladies,” 587; “A Memory,” 588; “Old Mrs. Marblehall,” 588; “The Petrified Man,” 587; “A Piece of News,” 585; “Powerhouse,” 588; “Why I Live at the P.O.,” 587; “A Worn Path,” 588
Wescott, Glenway, 661–62, 669
West, Mae, 742
West Florida, 757
Weston, Edward, 987–88
Whitman, Walt, 689, 702–3
Wilkes, John, 590, 593
Williams, Albert Rhys, 837
Williams, William Carlos, 576, 675
Wilson, Edmund, 624; The American Earthquake, 837–38; Memoirs of Hecate County, 624; To the Finland Station, 624
Wolfe, Bertram D., 936n, 994–96
Wolfe, Don M., 714
Woolf, Leonard, 610
Woolf, Virginia, 550, 583, 609–13, 1015; The Captain’s Death Bed, 610–11; The Voyage Out, 611
Wordsworth, William, 549
World War I, 572, 688, 710, 825
World War II, 562, 572–73, 676, 707, 717n, 820–23, 829
Wyoming, 551
Xochimilco (floating gardens), 998
Xochimilco Indians, 884, 886–92, 917
Xochitl, 885–86
Yaddo, 781–82
Yaqui Indians, 906
Yeats, John Butler, 576
Yeats, William Butler, 540, 543, 575–76, 583, 587, 611, 624–26, 635, 653, 660, 669–71, 677, 759, 808, 1015; The Celtic Twilight, 671
Yokel and the Sacristan, The, 962
York, Duke of (Frederick Augustus), 593
Yucatán, 873, 893, 906–7
Zapata, Emiliano, 906, 936–37, 976, 1004
Zapatistas, 873
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76. Thomas Paine: Collected Writings
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79. Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels
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81. Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays
82. Henry James: Complete Stories 1892–1898
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84. William Bartram: Travels and Other Writings
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87. Vladimir Nabokov: Novels and Memoirs 1941–1951
88. Vladimir Nabokov: Novels 1955–1962
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92. John Muir: Nature Writings
93. Nathanael West: Novels and Other Writings
94. Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s
95. Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s
96. Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose
97. James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories
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100. Gertrude Stein: Writings 1932–1946
101. Eudora Welty: Complete Novels
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103. Charles Brockden Brown: Three Gothic Novels
104. Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959–1969
105. Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1969–1975
106. Henry James: Complete Stories 1874–1884
107. Henry James: Complete Stories 1884–1891
108. American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King Jr.
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110. Dashiell Hammett: Complete Novels
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118. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings
119. Tennessee Williams: Plays 1937–1955
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121. Edith Wharton: Collected Stories 1891–1910
122. Edith Wharton: Collected Stories 1911–1937
123. The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence
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126. Dawn Powell: Novels 1930–1942
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129. Alexander Hamilton: Writings
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133. Sinclair Lewis: Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth
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136. Kate Chopin: Complete Novels & Stories
137. Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941–1963
138. Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1963–1973
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142. John Dos Passos: Novels 1920–1925
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155. H. P. Lovecraft: Tales
156. Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Little Men, Jo’s Boys
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158. Philip Roth: Novels 1967–1972
159. James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family
160. James Agee: Film Writing & Selected Journalism
161. Richard Henry Dana, Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast & Other Voyages
162. Henry James: Novels 1901–1902
163. Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1944–1961
164. William Faulkner: Novels 1926–1929
165. Philip Roth: Novels 1973–1977
166. American Speeches: Part One
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168. Hart Crane: Complete Poems & Selected Letters
169. Saul Bellow: Novels 1956–1964
170. John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley and Later Novels
171. Capt. John Smith: Writings with Other Narratives
172. Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater
173. Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s
174. Jack Kerouac: Road Novels 1957–1960
175. Philip Roth: Zuckerman Bound
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178. American Poetry: The 17th & 18th Centuries
179. William Maxwell: Early Novels & Stories
180. Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, & Letters
181. A. J. Liebling: World War II Writings
182s. American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
183. Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s
184. William Maxwell: Later Novels & Stories
185. Philip Roth: Novels & Other Narratives 1986–1991
186. Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings
187. John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956–1987
188. John Cheever: Collected Stories & Other Writings
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192s. The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now
193. Philip K. Dick: VALIS & Later Novels
194. Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926–1948
195. Raymond Carver: Collected Stories
196. American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
197. American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
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200. Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels
201. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Journals 1820–1842
202. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Journals 1841–1877
203. The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner
204. Shirley Jackson: Novels & Stories
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206. H. L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series
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210. Lynd Ward: Gods’ Man, Madman’s Drum, Wild Pilgrimage
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218. Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 1930s
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220. Philip Roth: The American Trilogy 1997–2000
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222. Barbara W. Tuchman: The Guns of August & The Proud Tower
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225. David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s & 50s
226. Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1950–1962
227. American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953–1956
228. American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956–1958
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231. Jack Kerouac: Collected Poems
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238. Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Ecology and Conservation
239. May Swenson: Collected Poems
240. W. S. Merwin: Collected Poems 1952–1993
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249. Bernard Malamud: Novels and Stories of the 1960s
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* W. B. Yeats told how Ezra Pound carried food scraps in his pockets for the hungry street cats who had so many enemies. Yeats doubted he really liked cats, though. “He never nurses the café cat,” he observed. Of course not. The café cat was safe and comfortable.
* John Middleton Murry, her husband.
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