Title: The Norton introduction to literature -- shorter fifth edition
Description: A balanced selection of classic and contemporary works by prominent and less-well-known writers. From Joyce, Hemingway, O'Connor, Auden, Stevens, Dickinson, Faulkner, Hawthorne, and Whitman, to Sharon Olds, Nicholson Baker, Carolyn Forché, Paul Ruffin, Salman Rushdie, Agha Shahid Ali, Eamon Grennan, Linda Pastan, Li-Young Lee, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Simon Ortiz, Seamus Heaney, Karen Volkman, and David Ives.
Subjects: Literature, Collections, Literature, collections, Fiction, History, Classic Literature, Short Stories, Juvenile audience, civil war, hanging, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Union, Imagination
Places: United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge
People: Peyton Farquhar
Time periods: 1861-65, Civil War, 1861-1865