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American Literature

British Literature

AP English Language and Composition

Poetry:

Angelou, Maya - Selected Poems

Brooks, Gwendolyn - Selected Poems

Coastsworth, Elizabeth - "Wilderness Rivers"

Conkling, Hilda - "Dandelion"

Crane, Stephen - "A Man Said to the Universe"

Dickinson, Emily - Selected Poems

Dunbar, Paul Lawrence - Selected Poems

Emerson, Ralph Waldo - "Concord Hymn"

Frost, Robert - Selected Poems

Giovanni, Nikki - "Always There Are the Children"

Holmes, Oliver Wendell - "The Chambered Nautilus"

Hughes, Langston - Selected Poems

Jarrell, Randall - "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"

Justice, Donald - Selected Poems

Jeffers, Robinson - "To the Stone-Cutters"

Katz, Bobbi - "A Pioneer Woman Looks Back"

Lazarus, Emma - "The New Colossus"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth - Selected Poems

Lowell, Amy - "Night Clouds"

Moore, Lilian - "Winter Dark"

Poe, E. A. - "Alone"

Poe, E.A. - "The Raven"

Roethke, Theodore - Selected Poems

Rutsala, Vern - "Words"

St. Vincent Millay, Edna - Selected Poems

Stevens, Wallace - "A Postcard from the Volcano"

Stevens, Wallace - "Death of the Soldier"

Teasdale, Sara - "Barter"

Trowbridge, William - "Taking My Son to His First Day of Kindergarten"

Whitman, Walt - Selected Poems

Walker, Margaret - "Lineage"

Wilbur, Richard - Selected Poems

Short Stories:

Beaumont, Charles - "Free Dirt"

Beaumont, Charles - "The Crooked Man"

Beaumont, Charles - "The Howling Man"

Benét, Stephen Vincent - "By the Waters of Babylon"

Bierce, Ambrose - "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

Bixby, Jerome - "It's a Good Life"

Bradbury, Ray - "Punishment without Crime"

Bradbury, Ray - "The Dwarf"

Bradbury, Ray - "The Veldt"

Carver, Raymond - "Little Things"

Carver, Raymond - Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories

Connell, Richard - "The Most Dangerous Game"

Cormier, Robert - "The Day I Drove Through the Car Wash..."

Cormier, Robert - "The Gum Caper"

Crane, Stephen - "The Open Boat"

Ellison, Ralph - "King of the Bingo Game"

Jackson, Shirley - "The Lottery"

King, Stephen - "The Boogeyman"

King, Stephen - "The Crate"

Knight, Damon - "To Serve Man"

Leiber, Fritz, - "Smoke Ghost"

London, Jack - "To Build a Fire"

Matheson, Richard - "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"

Momaday, N. Scottt - "Riding is an Exercise of the Mind"

O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find

O. Henry - "After Twenty Years"

Oates, Joyce Carol - "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"

Poe, E. A., - "The Cask of Amontillado"

Poe, E. A. - "The Fall of the House of Usher"

Poe, E. A. - "The Tell-Tale Heart"

Richter, Stacey - "The Cavemen in the Hedges"

Slesar, Henry - "Examination Day"

Thurber, James - Collected Short Stories

Uchida, Yoshiko - "The Bracelet"

Venable, Lyn - "Time Enough at Last"

Vonnegut, Kurt - "Harrison Bergeron"

Wright, Richard - "The Man Who Was Almost a Man"

Novels:

Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451

Dick, Philip K. - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man

Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby

Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms

Hemingway, Ernest - For Whom the Bell Tolls

Hemingway, Ernest - The Old Man and the Sea

Kesey, Ken - One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

London, Jack - The Sea Wolf

Mailer, Norman - The Naked and the Dead

Matheson, Richard - I Am Legend

McCarthy, Cormac - The Road

O'Brien, Tim - The Things They Carried

Salinger, J. D., The Catcher in the Rye

Steinbeck, John - East of Eden

Steinbeck, John - Of Mice and Men

Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath

Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse-Five

Abbott, Jack Henry - "State-Raised Convict"

Anthony, Susan B. - "On Women's Right to Vote"

Atwood, Margaret - Selected Writings

Baldwin, James - "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What is?"

Bruck, David, "The Death Penalty"

Camus, Albert - "The Myth of Sisyphus"

Carlin, George - "The American Dream"

Chief Seattle - "Letter to President Pierce"

Conrad, Joseph - from The Secret Sharer

Dickens, Charles - from Pictures from Italy

Didion, Joan - "Death in El Salvador"

Dillard, Annie - from What an Essay Can Do

Dubois, W. E. B. - "The White Masters of the World"

Ehrenreich, Barbara - from Nickel and Dimed

Einstein, Albert - "Letter to Franklin Delano Roosevelt"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo - from Nature

Emerson, Ralph Waldo - from "The American Scholar"

Evans, Hirman Wesley - "The Klan's Fight for Americanism"

Farmer, James - "A Night of Terror in Plaquemine, Louisiana, 1963"

Frankl, Viktor - "Arrival at Auschwitz"

Gore, Al - from Earth in the Balance

Gornick, Vivian - "Working in the Catskills"

Hitler, Adolf - "Man Must Kill"

Hoffer, Eric - "Long Live Shame!"

Huxley, Aldous - "Time and the Machine"

Jefferson, Thomas et al. - "Declaration of Independence"

Keizer, Garret - "Why We Hate Teachers"

Kernahan, Coulson - from A Dead Man's Diary

Koch, Edward, "Death and Justice"

Laffey, Marcus - "Inside Dope"

Lincoln, Abraham - "The Gettysburg Address"

London, Jack - "The Story of an Eyewitness"

Lovecraft, H. P. - from "Supernatural Horror in Literature"

Machiavelli, Niccolo - from The Prince

Malcolm X - "The Ballot of the Bullet"

McFadyean, Melanie - "The Fingers on the Trigger"

Melville, Herman - "Nantucket" from Moby Dick

O'Hair, Madalyn Murray - "Arguments for God, Historical and Contemporary, with Refutation"

Oppenheimer, Martin - "Defining Terrorism"

Orwell, George - "Politics and the English Language"

Orwell, George - "Shooting an Elephant"

Parker, Jo Goodwin - "What is Poverty?"

Parry, Albert - "Robespierre's Bloody Virtue"

Plato - "Allegory of the Cave"

Rodriguez, Richard - "Language or Silence"

Rodriguez, Richard - "Speaking American"

Russell, Bertrand - "Appearance and Reality" from The Problems of Philosophy

Sagan, Carl - "At the Heart of a Trillion Worlds"

Sagan, Carl - "Reflections on a Grain of Salt"

Sedaris, David - "You Can't Kill the Rooster"

Selzer, Richard - "A Mask on the Face of Death"

Shakespeare, William - "Ultimatum to Harfleur" from Henry V

Shakespeare, William - "St. Crispen's Day Speech" from Henry V

Siegel, Ronald - "Death"

Sophocles - from Antigone

The Onion, "Nation's Educators Alarmed by Poorly Written Teen Suicide Notes"

The Onion, "Teach for America Chews Up, Spits Out Another Ethnic Studies Major"

The Onion, "World's Scientists Admit They Just Don't Like Mice"

Voltaire, "Of Universal Tolerance"

Thoreau, Henry David - from Walden

Winston, John H. - from A Relic of the Rebellion

Wollstonecraft, Mary - from A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Various Works

World Literature

Reader's Theater