Chapter Ⅰ American Colonial and Early National Literature （1620-1820） 1. Native American Voices Literary Review Selected Readings How the World Began 2. Anne Bradstreet Literary Review Selected Readings Verses upon the Burning of Our House To My Dear and Loving Husband 3. Edward Taylor Literary Review Selected Readings God' s Determinations 4. Benjamin Franklin Literary Review Selected Readings The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 5. Thomas Jefferson Literary Review Selected Readings The Declaration of Independence
Chapter Ⅱ Romanticism （1820-1865） 6. Washington Irving Literary Review Selected Readings Rip Van Winkle 7. James Fenimore Cooper Literary Review Selected Readings The Last of the Mohicans 8. Ralph Waldo Emerson Literary Review Selected Readings The American Scholar 9. Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Review Selected Readings The Minister's Black Veil 10. Edgar Allan Poe Literary Review Selected Readings The Tell-Tale Heart 11; Walt Whitman Literary Review Selected Readings Song of Myself （1881） I Hear America Singing 12. Herman Melville Literary Review Selected Readings Moby Dick 13. Emily Dickinson Literary Review Selected Readings 67 Success is counted sweetest 249 Wild Nights-Wild Nights！ 288 I'm Nobody！ Who are you？ 1129 Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
Chapter Ⅲ Realism （1865-1914） 14. Mark Twain Literary Review Selected Readings The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 15. Henry James Literary Review Selected Readings Daisy Miller: A Study 16. Stephen Crane Literary Review Selected Readings The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky 17. Theodore Dreiser Literary Review Selected Readings Sister Carrie Chapter Ⅳ Modernism （1914-1945） 18. Robert Frost Literary Review Selected Readings Mending Wall The Road Not Taken Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 19. Sherwood Anderson Literary Review Selected Readings The Egg 20. William Carlos Williams Literary Review Selected Readings The Red Wheelbarrow This Is Just to Say 21. Ezra Pound Literary Review Selected Readings In a Station of the Metro A Pact 22. Eugene O'Neill Literary Review Selected Readings The Hairy Ape 23. F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Review Selected Readings The Diamond as Big as the Ritz 24. William Faulkner Literary Review Selected Readings A Rose for Emily 25. Ernest Hemingway Literary Review Selected Readings Cat in the Rain 26. Langston Hughes Literary Review Selected Readings The Negro Speaks of Rivers Theme for English B 27. John Steinbeck Literary Review Selected Readings Breakfast
Chapter V Postmodernism （1945-） 28. Arthur Miller Literary Review Selected Readings The Crucible 29. Robert Lowell Literary Review Selected Readings Mr. Edwards and the Spider Skunk Hour 30. Joseph Heller Literary Review Selected Readings Catch-22 31. James Baldwin Literary Review Selected Readings Sonny's Blues 32. Flannery O'Connor Literary Review Selected Readings A Good Man Is Hard to Find 33. Allen Ginsberg Literary Review Selected Readings How! 34. Toni Morrison Literary Review Selected Readings The Beloved Bibliography
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Of course, people in Yellow Sky married as it pleased them in accordance with ageneral custom but such was Potter's thought of his duty to his friends, or of their ideaof his duty, or of an unspoken form which does not control men in these matters, that hefelt he was heinous. He had committed an extraordinary crime. Face to face with this girlin San Antonio, and spurred by his sharp impulse, he had gone headlong over all the social hedges. At San Antonio he was like a man hidden in the dark. A knife to sever any friendly duty, any form, was easy to his hand in that remote city. But the hour of Yellow Sky, the hour of daylight, was approaching. He knew full well that his marriage was an important thing to his town. It could onlybe exceeded by the burning of the new hotel. His friends would not forgive him.Frequently he had reflected on the advisability of telling them by telegraph, but a newcowardice had been upon him. He feared to do it. And now the train was hurrying himtoward a scene of amazement, glee, and reproach. He glanced out of the window at theline of haze swinging slowly in towards the train. Yellow Sky had a kind of brass band which played painfully to the delight of thepopulace. He laughed without heart as he thought of it. If the citizens could dream of hisprospective arrival with his bride, they would parade the band at the station and escortthem, amid cheers and laughing congratulations, to his adobe home. ……
