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2 volumes ; 23 cm |
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The time of the Gringo / Elliot Arnold -- The wine of San Lorenzo / Herbert Gorman -- Gold in California / Todhunter Ballard -- The way west / A.B. Guthrie -- Marching on / James Boyd -- The red cock crows / Fances Gaither -- Follow the drinkin' gourd / Frances Gaither -- Fire bell in the night / Constance Robertson -- War is kind / Stephen Crane -- Gone with the wind / Margaret Mitchell -- Casey / Ramona Stewart -- A horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce -- Good old rebel / Innes Randolph -- Main travelled roads / Hamlin Garland -- Bricks without straws / Albion Tourgee -- A fool's errand / Albion Tourgee. v. 2. Starving to death on a government claim -- The big rock candy mountain / Wallace Stegner -- Coarse gold / Edwin Corle -- East of Eden / John Steinbeck -- Ladies day / Chard Smith -- Julius / Horatio Alger -- The fable of the honest money-maker and the partner of his joys, such as they were / George Ade. |
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Success / Samuel Hopkins Adams -- The jungle / Upton Sinclair -- A far country / Winston Churchill -- Joe Hill / Wallace Stegner -- The rough riders / Hermann Hagedorn -- Lower than the angels / Walter Karig -- Mademoiselle from Armentieres -- Black river / Carleton Beals -- Revelry / Samuel Hopkins Adams -- Main street / Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt / Sinclair Lewis -- This side of paradise / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Appearance of a man / George Backer -- All the best people / Sloan Wilson -- Poor, no more / Robert Ruark -- The grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck -- The winds of war / Herman Wouk -- From here to eternity / James Jones -- Harvest of hate / Georgia Day Robertson -- The war lover / John Hersey -- The right image / James Horan -- Executive suite / Cameron Hawley -- F.O.B. Detroit / Wessel Smitter -- The drifters / James Michener -- The minister / Charles Mercer. |
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The boy who painted Christ black / John Henrik Clarke -- Tomorrow's hidden season / George Byram -- The new centurions / Joseph Wambaugh -- On a soldier fallen in the Philippines / William Vaughn Moody -- The bridges at Toko-ri / James Michener -- On instructions of my government / Pierre Salinger -- Company man / Joe Maggio -- The only war we've got / Derek Maitland. |
| Summary |
Volume 1 contains excerpts from fiction by Hervey Allen, Louis Zara, Mary Johnston, John Newton, William Davis, Charles Mercer, Kenneth Roberts, Bruce Lancaster, Irving Stone, Vardis Fisher, Andrew Hepburn, Paul Wellman, Samuel Woodworth, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Edward Eggleston, Thomas S. Arthur, Dorothea Malm, James Horan, Elliott Arnold, Herbert Gorman, Todhunter Ballard, A.B. Guthrie, James Boyd, Frances Gaither, Constance Robertson, Stephen Crane, Margaret Mitchell, Ramona Stewart, Ambrose Bierce, Innes Randolph, Hamlin Garland, and Albion Tourgee. Volume 2 contains excerpts from fiction by Innes Randolph, Hamlin Garland, Margaret Mitchell, Albion Tourgee, James Horan, Wallace Stegner, Edwin Corle, John Steinbeck, Chard Smith, Horatio Alger, George Ade, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Upton Sinclair, Winston Churchill, Hermann Hagedorn, Walter Karig, Carleton Beals, Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Backer, Sloan Wilson, Robert Ruark, Herman Wouk, James Jones, Georgia Day Robertson, John Hersey, Cameron Hawley, Wessel Smitter, James Michener, Charles Mercer, John Henrik Clarke, George Byram, Joseph Wambaugh, William Vaughn Moody, Pierre Salinger, Joe Maggio, and Derek Maitland. |
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American literature.
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United States -- History -- Literary collections.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Literary collections. (OCoLC)fst01423811
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| Added Author |
Clowers, Myles L., compiler.
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| ISBN |
0070042179 (v. 1) |
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9780070042179 (v. 1) |
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0070042187 |
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9780070042186 |
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