Mark Twain

Arthur Weigall Thc Malevolence of Ancient Egyptian Spirits Louisa May Alcott Lost in a Pyramid, or The Mummy's Curse Various Egyptologists Raiding Mummies' Tombs Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Ring of Thoth Tennessee Williams The Vengeance of Nitocris H. P. Lovecraft Under thc Pyramids Howard Carter, with A. C. Mace Opening King Tutankhamen's Tomb Agatha Christie The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb An Ancient Egyptian Priest The Demon-Possessed Princess Mark Twain The Majestic Sphinx Sir H. Rider Haggard Smith and thc Pharaohs Edgar Allan Poe Some Words with a Mummy Ray Bradbury Colonel Stonesteel's Genuine Horne-Made Truly Egyptian Mummy Rudyard Kipling Dead Kings (excerpt) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Lot No. 249 Elizabeth Peters The Locked Tomb Mystery Sax Rohmer Thc Death-Ring of Sncfcru Anne Rice The Mummy or Ramses the Damned (excerpt) Bram Stoker The Jewel of Seven Stars (abridged)

I. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SHORT-STORY II. THE APPARITION OF MRS. VEAL. By Daniel Defoe (1661-1731) III. THE MYSTERIOUS BRIDE. By James Hogg (1770-1835) IV. THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER. By Washington Irving (1783-1859) V. [DR. HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT]( By Nathaniel Hawthorne (1807-1864) VI. [THE PURLOINED LETTER]( By Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) VII. RAB AND HIS FRIENDS. By Dr. John Brown (1810-1882) VIII. THE BOOTS AT THE HOLLY-TREE INN. By Charles Dickens (1812-1870) IX. A STORY OF SEVEN DEVILS. By Frank R. Stockton. (1834-1902) X. A DOG'S TALE. By Mark Twain (1835) XI. THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT. By Bret Harte (1839-1902) XII. THE THREE STRANGERS. By Thomas Hardy (1840) XIII. JULIA BRIDE. By Henry James (1843) XIV. A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT. By Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

LITERATURE AND SCIENCE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. PROLOGUE: LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. Sonnet---To Science (1829) / Edgar Allan Poe The Belfast Address (1874) / John Tyndall From Science and Culture (1880) / Thomas Henry Huxley Literature and Science (1882) / Matthew Arnold MATHEMATICS, PHYSICAL SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY. Mathematics. Sketch of the Analytical Engine (1843) / Ada Lovelace From Formal Logic (1847) / Augustus De Morgan From An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854) / George Boole From The Logic of Chance (1866) / John Venn From Through the Looking-Glass (1871) From The Game of Logic (1886) / Lewis Carroll From Daniel Deronda (1876) / George Eliot From The Time Machine (1895) / H.G. Wells Physical Science. From On the Power of Penetrating into Space by Telescopes (1800) / Sir William Herschel From Past and Present (1843) / Thomas Carayle From Outlines of Astronomy (1849) / Sir John Herschell From Experimental Researches in Electricity (1839-55) (1852) / Michael Faraday On the Age of the Sun's Heat (1862) / William Thomson, Lord Kelvin On Chemical Rays, and the Light of the Sky (1869) On the Scientific Use of the Imagination (1870) / John Tyndall From Theory of Heat (1871) To the Chief Musician upon Nabla: A Tyndallic Ode (1874) Professor Tait, Loquitur (1877) Answer to Tait To Hermann Stoffkraft (1878) / James Clerk Maxwell The Sorting Demon of Maxwell (1879) / William Thomson, Lord Kelvin From Two on a Tower (1882) / Thomas Hardy The Photographic Eyes of Science (1883) / Richard A. Proctor On a New Kind of Rays (1895) / Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen Telcommunications. Letter to Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the US Treasury, 27 September 1837 / Samuel F.B. Morse The Telephone from Westminster Review (1878) / Anonymous Mental Telegraphy (1891) / Mark Twain The Deep-Sea Cables (1896) / Rudyard Kipling In the Cage (1898) / Henry James Bodies and Machines. From On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (1832) / Charles Babbage From Dombey and Son (1847-8) / Charles Dickens On the Conservation of Force (1847) / Hermann Von Helmholtz From Erewhon (1872) / Samuel Butler To a Locomotive in Winter (1876) / Walt Whitman SCIENCES OF THE BODY. Animal Electricity. From De Viribus Electricitatis (1791) / Luigi Galvani From Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry (1802) / Sir Humphrey Davy From Frankenstein (1818) / Mary Shelley I Sing the Body Electric (1867) / Walt Whitman Cells and Tissues and Their Relation to the Body. From General Anatomy (1801) / Xavier Bichat From Cellular Pathology (1858) / Rudolf Virchow From Middlemarch (1871-2) / George Eliot From the Physical Basis of Mind (1877) / George Henry Lewes Hygiene, Germ Theory, and Infectious Diseases. From The Last Man (1826) / Mary Shelley An Inquiry into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842) / Sir Edwin Chadwick [The Mask of the Red Death]( (1842) / Edgar Allan Poe The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever (1843) / Oliver Wendall Holmes On the Organized Bodies Which Exist in the Atmosphere (1861) / Louis Pasteur Illustrations of the Antiseptic System (1867) / Sir Joseph Lister Dr Koch on the Cholera (1884) / Anonymous The Stolen Bacillus (1895) / H.G. Wells Experimental Medicine and Vivisection. From An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) / Claude Bernard Vivisection: Its Pains and Its Uses (1881) / Sir James Paget Vivisection and Its Two-Faced Advocates (1882) / Frances Power Cobbe From Heart and Science (1883) / Wilkie Collins From The Island of Dr Moreau (1896) / H.G. Wells EVOLUTION. The Present and the Past. From Zoological Philosophy (1809) / Jean Baptiste De Lamarck From Principles of Geology (1830-3) / Sir Charles Lyell From Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840) / William Whewell From The Princess (1847) / Alfred, Lord Tennyson From The Origin of Species (1859) / Charles Darwin From The Mill on the Floss (1860) / George Eliot On the Physical Basis of Life (1869) / Thomas Henry Huxley From The Story of an African Farm (1883) / Olive Schreiner From Mental Evolution in Man (1888) / George John Romanes The Individual and the Species. From In Memoriam, LIII-LV, CXVIII (1850) / Alfred, Lord Tennyson From Principles of Biology (1864-7) / Herbert Spencer Hap (1866) From A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) / Thomas Hardy From The Evolution of Man (1874) / Ernst Haeckel From Unconscious Memory (1880) / Samuel Butler Evolution (1880) To Nature / Emily Pfeiffer From Essays on Heredity (1881-5) / August Weismann Lay of the Trilobite (1885) / May Kendall Nature is a Heraclitean Fire (1888) / Gerard Manley Hopkins Sexual Selection. From Pride and Prejudice (1813) / Jane Austen From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) / Charles Darwin From She (1887) / Henry Rider Haggard Natural Selection (1887) / Constance Naden From Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) / Thomas Hardy SCIENCES OF THE MIND. The Relationship between Mind and Body. From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822) / Thomas De Quincey On the Reflex Function (1833) / Marshall Hall From A Treatise on Insanity (1835) / James Cowles Prichard [The Birthmark]( (1846) / Nathaniel Hawthorne From [bartleby the Scrivener]( (1856) / Herman Melville From Mind and Brain (1860) / Thomas Laycock From Lady Audley's Secret (1862) / Mary Elizabeth Braddon The Case of George Dedlow (1866) / S. Weir Mitchell From Body and Mind (1870) / Henry Maudsley From Principles of Mental Physiology (1874) / William B. Carpenter From Principles of Psychology (1890) / William James Physiognomy and Phrenology. From Elements of Phrenology (1824) / George Combe From Phrenology in Connection with the Study of Physiognomy (1826) / Johann Gaspar Spurzheim From Jane Eyre (1847) / Charlotte Brontë From The Lifted Veil (1859) / Geroge Eliot Mesmerism and Magnetism. From Facts in Mesmerism (1840) / Chauncey Hare Townsend From Surgical Operations without Pain in the Mesmeric State (1843) / John Elliotson [Mesmeric Revelation]( (1844) / Edgar Allan Poe From Letters on Mesmerism (1845) / Harriet Martineau From Mesmerism in India (1847) / James Esdaile Mesmerism (1855) / Robert Browning From The Moonstone (1868) / Wilkie Collins Dreams and the Unconscious. When Thou Sleepest (1837) / Charlotte Brontë Unconscious Cerebration: A Psychological Study (1871) / Frances Power Cobbe From The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) / Robert Louis Stevenson Address to the German Chemical Society (1890) / August Kenkule Nervous Exhaustion. From Elsie Venner (1861) / Oliver Wendell Holmes From Wear and Tear, or Hints for the Overworked (1872) / S. Weir Mitchell The Yellow Wall-Paper (1892) / Charlotte Perkins Gilman SOCIAL SCIENCES. Creating the Social Sciences. From Panopticon (1791) From Manual of Political Economy (1793) / Jeremy Bentham From An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) / Thomas Malthus From A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation (1832) / J.R. M'Culloch From Bleak House (1852-3) / Charles Dickens From Positive Philosophy (1853) / Auguste Comte From Hard Times (1854) / Charles Dickens From Utilitarianism (1861) / John Stuart Mill From Jude the Obscure (1895) / Thomas Hardy Race Science. From The Races of Men (1850) / Robert Knox From Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development (1883) / Sir Francis Galton [The Yellow Face]( (1894) / Arthur Conan Doyle Urban Poverty. From The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) / Friedrich Engels From London Labour and the London Poor (1851) / Henry Mayhew From North and South (1855) / Elizabeth Gaskell East London (1867) West London / Matthew Arnold Autobiography of a Thief in Thieves' Language (1879) / J.W. Horsley From Mrs Warren's Profession (1898) / George Bernard Shaw From East London (1899) / Walter Besant Degeneration. From The Criminal Man (1876) / Cesare Lombroso From The Nether World (1889) / George Gissing From The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) / Oscar Wilde From Degeneration (1892) / Max Nordau From The Heavenly Twins (1893) / Sarah Grand From Dracula (1897) / Bram Stoker EPILOGUE: SCIENCE AND LITERATURE. Prose and Verse (1857) / Sir John Herschel

"Here are more than 1,800 quotations, organized from A-to-Z, from America's consummate author--Mark Twain. A must-have for all Twain collectors, The Quotable Mark Twain is filled with his opinions about the people he knew, the places he's been, and the books he wrote, as well as more far-ranging topics, such as writers, billiards, smoking, his family, and more. The book also includes 150 illustrations taken from the original editions of Twain's publications, source citations for each quotation, an annotated bibliography, and a complete index."--Publisher's description.

Collection contains: Bret Harte: Muck-a-muck -- Right eye of the commander -- Luck of roaring camp -- Outcasts of Poker Flat -- Tennessee's partner -- Brown of Calaveras -- Mark Twain: Notorious frog of Calaveras County -- Jim Blaine and his grandfather's ram -- Scotty Briggs and the parson -- What stumped the bluejays (Jim Baker's bluejay yarn) -- Californian's tale -- Ambrose Bierce: Holy terror -- Secret of Macarger's Gulch -- Night-doings at "Deadman's" -- Stranger -- Owen Wister: Specimen Jones -- Serenade at Siskiyou -- Second Missouri compromise -- Sharon's choice -- Frederick Remington: Sergeant of the orphan troop -- Sun-down Leflare's warm spot -- Sun-down's higher self -- When a document is official -- Billy's tearless woe -- Stephen Crane: A man and some others -- Bride comes to Yellow Sky -- Twelve O'clock -- Moonlight on the snow -- Jack London: All gold canyon -- Frank Norris: Passing of Cock-eye Blacklock -- Two hearts that beat as one -- Stewart Edward White: Girl who got rattled -- Prospector -- Ole Virginia -- Corner in horses -- Two-man gun -- O. Henry: Ransom of Mack -- Call loan -- Princess and the puma -- Passing of Black Eagle -- Departmental case -- Last of the troubadours -- Mary Austin: The land -- Case of conscience -- Ploughed lands -- Return of Mr. Wills -- The Fakir -- Readjustment -- House of Offence -- Walking woman.

The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon -- A tradition of eighteen hundred and four / Thomas Hardy -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Michael / William Wordsworth -- To build a fire / Jack London -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- The signalman / Charles Dickens -- Come again in the spring / Richard Kennedy -- In my indolence / Italo Svevo -- Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Lochinvar / Sir Walter Scott -- The Griffin and the Minor Canon / Frank Stockton -- The elixir of Father Gaucher / Alphonse Daudet -- [Taste]( [Masque of the Red Death]( / Edgar Allan Poe -- The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov -- The Schartz-Metterklume method / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- A lodging for the night / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Canterville Ghost / Oscar Wilde.

A horse's tale / Mark Twain -- The flight of the horse / Larry Niven -- Mr. Travers's first hunt / Richard Harding Davis -- Levant / Hugh Johnson -- The man-killer / George Pattullo -- Skyrocket and the blue stuff / Cloudesley Johns -- The Maltese cat / Rudyard Kipling -- Treading down the herd's-grass /Charles A. Stephens -- A mistake in identity / Shelly Rider Meyer -- [Silver blaze]( / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The doctor's horse / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- The Old Jim horse / J. Lincoln Steffens -- In front of the stampede / Alvah Milton Kerr -- Over the jumps / Alfred Stoddart -- The cumbersome horse / H.C Bunner -- Pete, the Circassian horse / Ellis Parker Butler -- The tale of a cayuse / F.R.Weir -- Skipper / Sewell Ford -- The black roan of 265 / A.W.Rolker -- The man who could not lose / Richard Harding Davis -- The horses of Bostil's Ford / Zane Grey -- Carved in sand / Erle Stanley Gardner -- The winged foal / Deborah Moulton -- The kidnap of Bounding Mane / James Powell -- Shadow quest / William F. Nolan -- The trap / Clay Fisher -- Miniature / Max Brand.

Out the window / Lawrence Block Major crimes / Loren D. Estleman Silent warning / William J. Carroll, Jr. The third man / Graham Greene The cross of Lorraine / Isaac Asimov Nameless enemy / Miriam Allen DeFord Tragedy of a handkerchief / Michael Innes Unc foils show foe / John Jakes Dangerous widows / Mignon G. Eberhart Ride the lightning / John Lutz Till Tuesday / Jeremiah Healy The day of the losers / Dick Francis The case of the Pietro Andromache / Sara Paretsky Susu and the 8:30 ghost / Lillian Jackson Braun The investigation of things / Charles Ardai The trailor murder mystery / Abraham Lincoln The importance of trifles / Avram Davidson The double-barrelled detective story / Mark Twain The adventure of the oval window / John H. Dirckx Your appointment is cancelled / Antonia Fraser Le Chateau de L'Arsenic / Georges Simenon The nine mile walk / Harry Kemelman Crime in rhyme / Robert Bloch [The Purloined Letter]( / Edgar Allan Poe [The man with the twisted lip]( / Arthur Conan Doyle

Good boy / Jane M. Lindskold -- The oracle of the dog / G.K. Chesterton -- Red dog / Rudyard Kipling -- Pelt / Carol Emshwiller -- The dachshund / Mark Twain -- Kerfol / Edith Wharton -- [Silver Blaze]( / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The coon dog / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Deaths of distant friends / John Updike -- Lucifer and Hey-You / James Michener -- The last of the Winnebagos / Connie Willis -- Strange meets Matilda Jean / Patrick F. McManus -- Dogs / Ring Lardner -- Coyote and Quarter Moon / Bill Pronzini and Jeffrey Wallmann -- The law of club and fang / Jack London -- Josephine has her day / James Thurber -- The last dog / Mike Resnick -- A mess of skunks / Farley Mowat -- Dispatching Bootsie / Joyce Harrington -- Pat'tidge dog / Jim Kjelgaard -- Louis / Saki -- Winter dog / Alistair Macleod -- The great escape / James Herriot -- A contest fit for a queen / Susan Dunlap -- The pinchbug and the poodle / Mark Twain -- In the doghouse / Orson Scott Card with Jay A. Parry -- Penny and Willie / Bette Pesetsky -- Yellow journalism / Dave Barry -- Dog's lives / Michael Bishop -- Shaggy dog / Margaret Maron -- Like cats and dogs / Roger Caras

Contains: The cat that walked by himself / Rudyard Kipling -- The cat by the fire / Leigh Hunt -- The white cat / W.W. Jacobs -- [The black cat]( / Edgar Allan Poe -- Cats / Philip Gilbert Hamerton -- The cat / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Calvin, the cat / Charles Dudley Warner -- Ye marvelous legend of Tom Connor's cat / Samuel Lover -- Dick Baker's cat / Mark Twain -- The conscientious cat / Agnes A. Sandham -- He wrote to the rats / Julian Ralph -- The philanthropist and the happy cat ; Tobermory / Saki -- Midshipman, the cat / John Coleman Adams -- A black affair / W.W. Jacobs -- "When in doubt--wash!" ; Jennie's lessons to Peter on how to behave like a cat / Paul Gallico -- The witch's cat / Manly Wade Wellman -- A feline felony / Lael J. Littke -- The Cyprian cat / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Novice / James H. Schmitz -- The fat cat / Q. Patrick -- My father, the cat / Henry Slesar -- The sin of Madame Phloi / Lilian Jackson Braun -- The king of the cats / Stephen Vincent Benét -- The game of rat and dragon / Cordwainer Smith -- Podolo / L.P. Hartley -- Space-time for springers / Fritz Leiber -- Spooner / Eleanor Farjeon -- The story of Webster / P.G. Wodehouse -- Out of place / Pamela Sargent -- Cat nipped / Jack Schaefer -- The cat who lived in a drainpipe / Joan Aiken -- Some are born cats / Terry and Carol Carr -- Autumn : the garden of stubborn cats / Italo Calvino.

A thread of scarlet ; The little more / J.J. Bell -- The biter bit / William Wilkie Collins -- [Adventure of the Speckled Band]( [Adventure of the Priory School]( Aruthur[sic] Conan Doyle -- The purple death ; The crooked sou / William Le Queux -- The murders in the Rue Morgue ; The mystery of Marie Rogêt ; [Purloined Letter]( / Edgar Allan Poe -- The stolen white elephant / Mark Twain -- The Sunningdale murder ; The mind readers / Edgar Wallace -- Abel Crew / Mrs. Henry Wood -- The authors / Alan K. Russell.

Deformations: twentieth-century landscapes of ruin. Walden / E.B. White From the Grand Canyon to Burbank (1945) / Henry Miller A Sand County Almanac / Aldo Leopold Illinois bus Ride / Aldo Leopold Thinking Like a Mountain / Aldo Leopold Silent Spring (1962) / Rachel Carson Realms of the Soil / Rachel Carson Of a Fire on the Moon (1969) / Norman Mailer A Brook in the City (1930) / Robert Frost The Mouth of the Hudson (1964) / Robert Lowell Decline and Fall (1960) / John Frederick Nims Burning Mountain (1960) / W.S. Merwin In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (1967) / William Gass The Cleveland Wrecking Yard (1967) / Richard Brautigan The Magic Poker (1969) / Robert Coover -- Early explorations. Descriptio Insularum Aquilonis (1076) / Adam of Bremen Letter ... Describing ... His First Voyage ... (1493) / Christopher Columbus Letter to the King (1524) / Giovanni da Verrazzano Decades of the New World (1533) / Peter Martyr Expedition to Cibola (1540) / Pedro de Castaneda First Voyage to Virginia (1584) / Arthur Barlowe Ode to the Virginian Voyage (?1605) / Michael Drayton Briefe and True Relation (1602) / John Brereton -- The cultivation of the promised land, 1620-1800. Of Plymouth Plantation (1620) / William Bradford Wonder-Working Providence of Sion's Saviour in New England (1653) / Edward Johnson The History and Present State of Virginia (1705) / Robert Beverely Letters from an American Farmer (1782) / Hector St. Jean De Crevecoeur -- Eighteenth-century perspectives: natural history and the sublime. Travels (1791) [A Trip up the Altamaha River] / William Bartram Travels (1791) [Ephemera: St. John's River] / William Bartram Travels (1791) [Salt Springs] / William Bartram Travels (1791) [A Sylvan Scene] / William Bartram Notes on Virginia (1784) [The Confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers] / Thomas Jefferson Notes on Virginia (1784) [The Natural Bridge, Virginia] / Thomas Jefferson -- Poetry of scene: an American grand tour. View from West Point (1840) / Nathaniel Willis The Canal Boat (1846) / Nathaniel Hawthorne The Book of Niagara Falls / Horatio Parsons Black Mountain-Lake George (1840) / Nathaniel Willis from Travels in New England and New York (1821-1822) / Timothy Dwight Notch of the White Mountains (1835) / Nathaniel Hawthorne The American Scene (1907) / Henry James -- Landscape in the great theater of human events. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) / Washington Irving from The Last of the Mohicans (1826) / James Fenimore Cooper -- Landscape as idea: the transcendentalists. From Walden (1854) / Henry David Thoreau from Cape Cod (1864) / Henry David Thoreau from The Maine Woods (1864) / Henry David Thoreau from The Mountains of California (1894) / John Muir A Wind-storm in the Forests / John Muir -- Landscape as idea: romantic prose and poetry. Sights from a Steeple (1831) / Nathaniel Hawthorne The Ambitious Guest (1835) / Nathaniel Hawthorne [Island of the Fay]( / Edgar Allan Poe from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) / Frederick Douglass A Forest Hymn (1825) / William Cullen Bryant Each and All (1839) / Ralph Waldo Emerson Haze (1843) / Henry David Thoreau Low-Anchored Cloud (1843) / Henry David Thoreau #824: The Wind begun to knead the Grass (?1864) / Emily Dickinson #550: I cross til I am weary (?1862) / Emily Dickenson #797: By my window I have for Scenery (?1863) / Emily Dickinson #1278: The Mountains stood in Haze- (?1873) / Emily Dickinson #1343: A single Clover Plank (?1875) / Emily Dickinson When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1865) / Walt Whitman Song of the Redwood-Tree (1874) / Walt Whitman A Voice from Death (1889) / Walt Whitman -- The ways west: explorers, travelers and emigrants. From The Journals of Lewis and Clark (1809) / Meriwether Lewis from Travels in the Interior of North America (1839) / Prince Maximilian from Astoria (1836) / Washington Irving from Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains (1845) / John C. Fremont from Across the Great Southwestern Prairies (1845) / George W. Kendall from The Discovery of Yellowstone Park (1905) / Nathaniel Pitt Langford from The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (1895) / John Wesley Powell from The Grand Canyon (1895) / John Wesley Powell from Roughing It (1872) / Mark Twain from Specimen Days (1822) / Walt Whitman from The West from a Car Window (1892) / Richard Harding Davis from the Central Gold Region (1860) / William Gilpin Dakota Wheat Fields (1880) / C.C. Coffin from Old Jules (1935) / Mari Sandoz from The Octopus (1901) / Frank Norris from The Grapes of Wrath (1939) / John Steinbeck -- Landscape as environment: local color landscapes. The Luck of Roaring Camp (1868) / Bret Harte [Beyond The Bayou ]( / Kate Chopin -- Landscapes as antagonist: the literary naturalists. The Blue Hotel (1898) / Stephen Crane from The Wild Palms (1927) / William Faulkner -- Landscape into myth and ritual. From Masked Gods (1950) / Frank Waters The Rock / Frank Waters The Canyon / Frank Waters Creation Myth Night Chant (Navaho) Rain Song (Pima) Big Swamps of the Congaree The Promised Land Big Corn from Mules and Men (1935) / Zora Neale Hurston form The Wounds of Jesus / The Reverend D.C. Lovelace from Davy Crockett (1934) / Constance Rourke -- Affirming the ancient connections: twentieth-century symbiotic landscapes. Big Two-Hearted River (1925) Part 1 Big Two-Hearted River (1925) Part 2 Night in the Garden (1942) / Edwin Way Teale The Flow of the River (1957) / Loren Eiseley Alone on a Mountaintop (1960) / Jack Kerouac The priest of the Sun (1958) / N. Scott Momaday Flowers by the Sea (1935) / William Carlos Williams Dawn (1917) / William Carlos Williams The Trees (1934) / William Carlos Williams Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly (1954) / Wallace Stevens The Snow Man (1923) / Wallace Stevens Desert Places (1939) / Robert Frost Directive (1949) / Robert Frost West-Running Brook (1930) / Robert Frost Apology for Bad Dreams (1930) / Robinson Jeffers Meditation at Oyster River (1960) / Theodore Roethke A Road in Kentucky (1966) / Robert Hayden Ballad of Nat Turner (1966) / Robert Hayden Oak (1972) / Michael S. Harper Dead Oaks (1972) / Michael S. Harper Conserving the Magnitude of Uselessness (1970) / A.R. Ammons Possibility Along a line of Difference / A.R. Ammons The Hummingbird (1972) / Robert Pack Make Way (1973) / Robert Pack A Tree Telling of Orpheus (1966) / Denise Levertov Advent (?1949) / Brother Antoninus The South Coast (1959) / Brother Antoninus.