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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
India	V. S. Naipaul	Naipaul, of Indian heritage, was born and raised in Trinidad, but he recognized that it was his ancestral culture that governed who he was and how he thought. In this passionate portrait of a culture…	OL103112W
In the eyes of the cat	Demi	A collection of Japanese nature poems organized according to the seasons, illustrated with paintings corresponding to the themes of the poems.	OL103645W
Philobiblon	Richard de Bury	The Philobiblon is a collection of essays concerning the acquisition, preservation, and organization of books written by the mediaeval bibliophile Richard de Bury shortly before his death in 1345. Wr…	OL1092808W
The Chilswell book of English poetry	Robert Seymour Bridges	An annotated anthology of poetry written by well-known English poets.	OL1160183W
My Fair Lady / Pygmalion	George Bernard Shaw,Alan Jay Lerner	The ancient Greeks tell the legend of the sculptor Pygmalion, who created a statue of a woman of such surpassing beauty that he fell in love with his own creation. Then Aphrodite, taking pity on this…	OL15013928W
The Best American Poetry 1999	Robert Bly,David Lehman	The Best American Poetry 1999, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Robert Bly. Wikipedia	OL15070597W
Favorite poems of childhood	Philip Smith	A collection of familiar poems for and about children, by such authors as Robert Louis Stevenson, Christina Rossetti, Eugene Field, and Sarah Josepha Hale.	OL15160289W
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition	Edward Rowe Snow,Phyllis McGinley,John N. Morris,Sarah Kemble Knight,J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur,James Russell Lowell,Robert Frost,Edwin Arlington Robinson,T. S. Eliot,Carl Sandburg,Margaret Walker,Elinor Wylie,Sidney Lanier,Jonathan Edwards,Richard Eberhart,William Bradford,William Cullen Bryant,Oliver Wendell Holmes,Ernest Hemingway,Archibald MacLeish,Teresa Palomo Acosta,Katherine Anne Porter,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer,John Greenleaf Whittier,Sara Teasdale,Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson,Mark Twain,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Cotton Mather,Gary Soto,Dorothy Parker,Emily Dickinson,Denise Levertov,Ezra Pound,Henry David Thoreau,Washington Irving,Abraham Lincoln,Anne Bradstreet,Mollie Dorsey Sanford,Kurt Vonnegut,Edith Wharton,Lewis Thomas,James Thurber,Annie Dillard,Henry James,Ambrose Bierce,Paul Laurence Dunbar,William Faulkner,William Carlos Williams,E. E. Cummings,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Carson McCullers,Adrienne Rich,Willa Cather,Maxine Kumin,Walt Whitman,Bernard Malamud,Arna Wendell Bontemps,Ray Bradbury,Leslie Silko,Gwendolyn Brooks,Randall Jarrell,David Wagoner,Claude McKay,Stephen Crane,Amiri Baraka,Sherwood Anderson,Richard Wilbur,John Steinbeck,N. Scott Momaday,Benjamin Franklin,Frederick Douglass,Langston Hughes,W. E. B. Du Bois,William Least Heat Moon,Robert E. Lee,Louisa May Alcott,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Updike,Wallace Stevens,William Stafford,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Chief Joseph,Tennessee Williams,James E. Miller, Jr.,Edgar Allan Poe,Howard Nemerov,Elizabeth Bishop,Amy Lowell,Francis Wright,Philip Morin Freneau,Jean Toomer,Thomas Paine,Galway Kinnell,Eudora Welty,Robert Hayden,Ralph Ellison,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Richard Wright,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,James Weldon Johnson,Isaac Asimov,Flannery O'Connor,Kate Chopin,James Masao Mitsui,James Baldwin,Margaret Fuller,James Fenimore Cooper,Karl Jay Shapiro,Patrick F. McManus,May Swenson,Edgar Lee Masters,Jim Wayne Miller,Robert Anderson,Countee Cullen,Sylvia Plath,Seattle Chief,Lorraine Hansberry,Louise Bogan,Edna St. Vincent Millay,Thomas Jefferson,Robert Lowell,Sabine R. Ulibarrí,Marianne Moore,Lawson Fusao Inada,Phillis Wheatley,Vern Rutsala,Kerry M. Wood,Eugenia Collier,John Smith,William Byrd II,James W. C. Pennington,Satanta,Lillian Hellman,Mona Van Duyn,Richard Rodriguez,Mari Evans,Theodore Roethke,John Crowe Ransom,Taylor, Edward,Robinson Jeffers	Selections include: ... - [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) by Nathaniel Hawthorne ... - [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibra…	OL15164554W
Unto this last, and other writings	John Ruskin	"The most influential art theorist and critic of his age, an outstanding man of letters, a sensitive painter and draughtsman, Ruskin's social criticism shocked and angered the establishment and many …	OL15235077W
Perrine's literature, Structure, sound and sense--Eighth edition	Richard Connell,Albert Camus,Антон Павлович Чехов,Greg Johnson,Margaret Atwood,Thomas R. Arp,Chinua Achebe	Classic textbook provides students with a comprehensive study into the principal forms of fiction, poetry, and drama.	OL15393805W
The August House Book of Scary Stories	Liz Smith Parkhurst	An anthology of spooky stories drawn from folklore, local history, and the storytellers' imaginations, and divided into the categories "Just Desserts and Lessons Learned," "Ghostly Guardians," "Dark …	OL15406908W
Gateway to the great books	Mortimer J. Adler,Robert Maynard Hutchins	This is the first of a set of ten books which comprise the series. It is a fine book, but I can't use it with the device I'm using as the Adobe app will not install on an old iPad. I use a nice…	OL15822312W
I became alone	Judith Thurman	Explores five women poets, ranging from Sappho to Emily Dickinson, through brief biographies and selections of their poetry.	OL15837159W
Great books of the Western World	Niccolò Machiavelli,Thomas Hobbes	Volume 23	OL15963180W
Celebrations	Arnold Adoff	Two hundred and forty poems by eighty-five black American poets of the twentieth century provide ample representation of locality, voice, age, and style	OL16027908W
The Peanut butter hamster, and other animal tails	Grace Fox Anderson,Richard Johnson	Presents short stories and poems featuring animals in a religious setting.	OL16040623W
Is this forever, or what?	Naomi Shihab Nye	A collection of poetry and full-color artwork from Texas.	OL16049164W
Home to me	Stephen Alcorn,Lee Bennett Hopkins	A collection of fifteen poems by various authors about home, whether it is on a boat, in a trailer park, on a reservation, or in a small town.	OL16051256W
Campfire stories	William W. Forgey	A collection of twenty ghost stories by a variety of authors with suggestions on how each should be told to a group, preferably around a campfire.	OL16319369W
Imaginary gardens	Charles Sullivan	Includes a selection of poems by American poets and works of art by a variety of artists	OL16479835W