A Quarto of Modern Literature

by Leonard Brown (Editor), Porter G. Perrin (Editor)

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Leonard Brown
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Porter g. Perrin
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Adamic, Louis (Contributor)
Aiken, Conrad (Contributor)
Anderson, Sherwood (Contributor)
Auden, W.H. (Contributor)
Baldwin, Hanson W. (Contributor)
Barzun, Jacques (Contributor)
Becker, Carl L. (Contributor)
Beebe, William (Contributor)
Benét, Stephen Vincent (Contributor)
Cather, Willa (Contributor)
Chafee, Zechariah, Jr. (Contributor)
Chase, Stuart (Contributor)
Conrad, Joseph (Contributor)
Crane, Hart (Contributor)
Crane, Stephen (Contributor)
cummings, e.e. (Contributor)
de la Mare, Walter (Contributor)
Dobree, Bonamy (Contributor)
Eliot, T.S. (Contributor)
Faulkner, William (Contributor)
Fearing, Kenneth (Contributor)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Contributor)
Forster, E.M. (Contributor)
Freeman, Douglas Southall (Contributor)
Frost, Robert (Contributor)
Galsworthy, John (Contributor)
Giraudoux, Jean (Contributor)
Halper, Albert (Contributor)
Hardy, Thomas (Contributor)
Hemingway, Ernest (Contributor)
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (Contributor)
Housman, A.E. (Contributor)
Howard, Sidney (Contributor)
Huxley, Aldous (Contributor)
Huxley, Julian (Contributor)
Jackson, Shirley (Contributor)
Jeffers, Robinson (Contributor)
Joyce, James (Contributor)
Kafka, Franz (Contributor)
Lawrence, D.H. (Contributor)
Lindsay, Vachel (Contributor)
MacLeish, Archibald (Contributor)
MacNeice, Louis (Contributor)
Masefield, John (Contributor)
Masters, Edgar Lee (Contributor)
Mencken, H.L. (Contributor)
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (Contributor)
Miller, Arthur (Contributor)
Morison, Samuel Eliot (Contributor)
Mumford, Lewis (Contributor)
O'Neill, Eugene (Contributor)
Owen, Wilfred (Contributor)
Parker, Dewitt H. (Contributor)
Paton, Alan (Contributor)
Pearson, Edmund (Contributor)
Pound, Ezra (Contributor)
Robinson, Edwin Arlington (Contributor)
Roueche, Berton (Contributor)
Sandburg, Carl (Contributor)
Saroyan, William (Contributor)
Sherwood, Robert E. (Contributor)
Spender, Stephen (Contributor)
Steffens, Lincoln (Contributor)
Steinbeck, John (Contributor)
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Tate, Allen (Contributor)
Thomas, Dylan (Contributor)
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Wharton, Edith (Contributor)
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White, E.B. (Contributor)
Williams, William Carlos (Contributor)
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The Pomegranate Trees [short story] by William Saroyan
The Apple Tree by John Galsworthy
The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad
The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane
Neighbor Rosicky by Willa Cather
Counterparts [short story] by James Joyce
Death in the Woods and Other Stories by Sherwood Anderson
Death in the Woods [short story] by Sherwood Anderson (indirect)
The Rich Boy [short story] by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber {short story} by Ernest Hemingway
Delta Autumn by William Faulkner
The Metamorphosis [novella] by Franz Kafka
Jacob and the Indians by Stephen Vincent Benét
The Lost Boy: A Novella by Thomas Wolfe
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
The Leader of the People by John Steinbeck (indirect)
The Lottery [short story] by Shirley Jackson
My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber
"The Young Man Washington, An Address delivered at Sander's Theatre, Cambridge, February 22, 1932" by Samuel Eliot Morison
Loyalties by John Galsworthy
The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill
The Silver Cord: A Comedy in Three Acts by Sidney Howard
Abe Lincoln in Illinois: A Play in Twelve Scenes by Robert E. Sherwood
The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
On the shore; young writer remembering Chicago by Albert Halper
The Door by E. B. White
What I Believe by E. M. Forster
Science, religion, and human nature,: Delivered at Conway Hall ...on October 1, 1930, (Conway memorial lecture) by Julian Huxley
The Darkling Thrush {poem} by Thomas Hardy
The Convergence of the Twain by Thomas Hardy
When I Was One-and-Twenty by A. E. Housman
Miniver Cheevy [short story] by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Mr. Flood's Party {poem} by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Luke Havergal [poem] by Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Listeners [poem] by Walter De la Mare
Mending Wall by Robert Frost
Two Tramps in Mud Time by Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
“Acquainted With the Night” by Robert Frost
The Death of the Hired Man by Robert Frost
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight [poem] by Vachel Lindsay
Cool Tombs [poem] by Carl Sandburg
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter [poem] by Ezra Pound
Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen
The Wild Swans at Coole {poem} by William Butler Yeats
Leda and the Swan (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) by W. B. Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
God's Grandeur (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Windhover {poem} by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Animula by T. S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock [poem] by T. S. Eliot
The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot
Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town (Interpreting Literature - 5th Edition) by E. E. Cummings
Hurt Hawks [poem] by Robinson Jeffers
The Bloody Sire {poem} by Robinson Jeffers
Shine, Perishing Republic by Robinson Jeffers
Peter Quince at the Clavier (Interpreting Literature - 5th Edition) by Wallace Stevens
Ars Poetica {poem} by Archibald MacLeish
You, Andrew Marvell (Interpreting Literature - 5th Edition) by Archibald MacLeish
Musée des Beaux Arts [poem] by W. H. Auden
In Memory of W.B. Yeats (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) by W. H. Auden
Law Like Love by W. H. Auden
The Unknown Citizen by W. H. Auden
The Express by Stephen Spender
Regum ultima ratio by Stephen Spender
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower by Dylan Thomas
In My Craft or Sullen Art {poem} by Dylan Thomas
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

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1935

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Fiction and Literature
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820.82 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures Collections of literary texts in more than one form
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PR1149 .B7 — Language and Literature English English Literature Collections of English literature
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