Laurel edition

A classic work on growing up poor and black in the rural South. A searing account of life before the Civil Rights Movement. A history of our time.

"Yonnondio follows the heartbreaking path of the Holbrook family in the late 1920s and the Great Depression as they move from the coal mines of Wyoming to a tenant farm in Western Nebraska, ending up finally on the killing floors of the slaughterhouses and in the wretched neighborhoods of the poor in Omaha, Nebraska. Mazie, the oldest daughter in the growing family of Jim and Anna Holbrook, tells the story of the family's desire for a better life--Anna's dream that her children be educated and Jim's wish for a life lived out in the open, away from the darkness and danger of the mines. At every turn in their journey, however, their dreams are frustrated, and the family is jeopardized by cruel and indifferent systems."--Publisher's description on back cover.

Balloon-Hoax [Black Cat]( [Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar]( [Fall of the House of Usher]( Gold-Bug Man That Was Used Up [Masque of the Red Death]( Ms Found in a Bottle Murders in the Rue Morgue [Premature Burial]( Sphinx System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether Tale of the Ragged Mountains [Tell-tale Heart](

American Lester Mead and his wife try to bring harmony to a vast banana plantation in a fictional Central American country.

Thirty-five short stories by authors that include Conrad Aiken, John Cheever, Joseph Conrad, William Faulkner, Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Anne Porter, and Eudora Welty.