MSU reader
Subtitle: selections for EN 1113 - Comp II
By: Ann Spurlock, director of composition [and others]
Publisher: Pearson Learning Solutions
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9781256274704
Subjects: Literature; Collections; Problems, exercises; Anthologies; Littérature; Problèmes et exercices
Other titles: Allegory of the cave.; Time to break silence.; Importance of work.; Bluest eye.; Family of little feet.; Mistaken charity.; Child said, what is the grass?; Chimney sweeper.; Road not taken.; Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock.; Yellow wallpaper.; Aill-girl football team.; Flea.; Garden of love.; Ancient garden.; Lady of Shalott.; Lesson.; Worker reads history.; Triangle of fire.; Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.; Red convertible.; Man I killed.; Colonel.; School among ruins.
Notes: "Custom edition for Mississippi State University."

"Excerpts taken from: Literature and society : an introduction to fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction, Fourth edition, by Pamela J. Annas and Robert C. Rosen."

Includes biographical sketches of the literary authors.
Table of contents: title: The allegory of the cave  -- Plato; title: Civil disobedience  -- Henry David Thoreau; title: Ain't I a woman?  -- Sojourner Truth; title: Incidents in the life of a slave girl  -- Harriet Jacobs; title: Shakespeare's sister  -- Virginia Woolf; title: Women on the breadlines  -- Meridel Le Sueur; title: Shooting the elephant  -- George Orwell; title: Third class in Indian railways  -- Mohandas K. Gandhi; title: How should the German Jews respond to Nazi persecution?  -- Mohandas K. Gandhi and Judah L. Magnes; title: Blue winds dancing  -- Thomas S. Whitecloud; title: Man who went to Chicago  -- Richard Wright; title: Question of class  -- Dorothy Allison; title: Diary of a sit-in  -- Charles Merrill Proudfoot; title: Message to the grassroots  -- Malcolm X; title: I have a dream  -- Martin Luther King, Jr.; title: A time to break silence  -- Martin Luther King, Jr.; title: I want a wife  -- Judy Brady; title: Mike Lefevre : who built the pyramids?  -- Studs Terkel; title: The importance of work  -- Gloria Steinem; title: Huck Finn, Dan Quayle and the value of acceptance  -- Richard Rodriguez; title: Gun crazy  -- Dorothy Allison; title: Brave new world  -- Aldous Huxley; title: Girl  -- Jamaica Kincaid; title: The bluest eye  -- Toni Morrison; title: The family of little feet  -- Sandra Cisneros; title: Sonny's blues  -- James Baldwin; title: Young Goodman Brown  -- Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Jesus Christ's half-brother is alive and well on the Spokane Indian reservation  -- Sherman Alexie; title: A mistaken charity  -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; title: A child said, what is the grass?  -- Walt Whitman; title: Goblin market  -- Christina Rossetti; title: The chimney sweeper ;; title: Songs of innocence ;; title: Songs of experience  -- William Blake; title: The road not taken  -- Robert Frost; title: Those winter Sundays  -- Robert Hayden; title: The colossus  -- Sylvia Plath; title: Among children  -- Philip Levine; title: Ex-basketball player  -- John Updike; title: The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock  -- T.s. Eliot; title: Sailing to Byzantium  -- William Butler Yeats; title: That time of year thou mayst in me behold  -- William Shakespeare; title: To a poor old woman  -- William Carlos Williams; title: Undertaker -- Patrica Smith.; title: The yellow wallpaper  -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman; title: Hills like white elephants  -- Ernest Hemingway; title: Inés in the kitchen  -- Cristina Garcia; title: A & P  -- John Updike; title: Boys at the rodeo  -- Judy Grahn; title: The all-girl football team  -- Lewis Nordan; title: Hop-frog  -- Edgar Allan Poe; title: The flea  -- John Donne; title: The garden of love  -- William Blake; title: An ancient gesture  -- Edna St. Vincent Millay; title: My last duchess  -- Robert Browning; title: The lady of Shalott  -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson; title: Gloire de Dijon  -- D.H. Lawrence; title: One art  -- Elizabeth Bishop; title: Her kind  -- Anne Sexton; title: Beautiful black women  -- Amiri Baraka; title: Buick  -- Karl Shapiro; title: Cinderella  -- Olga Broumas; title: I stand here ironing  -- Tillie Olsen; title: Spotted horses  -- William Faulkner; title: The lesson  -- Toni Cade Bambara; title: Everyday use  -- Alice Walker; title: Hypothetical quandary  -- Harvey Pekar; title: A worker reads history  -- Bertolt Brecht; title: Description of the morning  -- Jonathan Swift; title: Ella, in a square apron, along highway 80  -- Judy Grahn; title: Chicago  -- Carl Sandburg; title: So Mexicans are taking jobs from Americans  -- Jimmy Santiago Baca; title: Bronzeville woman in a red hat  -- Gwendolyn Brooks; title: Ballad of the landlord  -- Langston Hughes; title: You can have it  -- Philip Levine; title: The triangle of fire  -- Mary Fell -- Peace and war. Fiction.; title: August 2026 : there will come soft rains  -- Ray Bradbury; title: An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge  -- Ambrose Bierce; title: The red convertible  -- Louise Erdrich; title: Report  -- Donald Barthelme; title: The man I killed  -- Tim O'Brien; title: Dulce et decorum est  -- Wilfred Owen; title: Flags vex a dying face  -- Emily Dickinson; title: At first I was given centuries  -- Margaret Atwood; title: "next to of course god america i"  -- E.E. Cummings; title: The colonel  -- Carolyn Forché; title: Life at war  -- Denise Levertov; title: After the terror  -- Jay Parini; title: The school among the ruins  -- Adrienne Rich; title: Vines ;; title: Anthony  -- Becky Hagenston; title: Lures of last resort ;; title: Population 204  -- Michael Kardos; title: Symmetry ;; title: Neither road taken  -- Richard Lyons; title: Love poem to fear ;; title: Why you love the annoyances in your dreams ;; title: In which I imagine myself into a slasher flick ;; title: "Well, gentleman, you are about to see a baked Appel." -- Catherine Pierce.