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Kaleidoscope

Stories of the American Experience
Edited by Barbara Perkins and George Perkins
ISBN13: 9780195072228ISBN10: 0195072227 Paperback, 688 pages
Dec 1992,  In Stock

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688 pages; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-507222-8ISBN10: 0-19-507222-7

Table of Contents

Introduction: The American Multicultural Experience; Notes toward Understanding
Verrazzano's Voyage: 1524 , Giovanni da Verrazzano (c. 1485-1528)
[from] The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca , Alva Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490-1557)
[from] Voyages of Samuel de Champlain , Samuel de Champlain (c. 1567-1635)
[from] The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles , John Smith (1580-1631)
[from] Of Plymouth Plantation , William Bradford (1590-1657)
[from] A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson , Mary Rowlandson (1636?-1711?)
[from] An Account of the Remarkable Occurrences in the Life and Travels of Col. James Smith , James Smith (1737-1812)
[from] The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano , Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797?)
[from] A Narrative of the Incidents Attending the Capture, Detention, and Ransom of Charles Johnston of Virginia , Charles Johnston (1769-1833)
[from] Domestic Manners of the Americans , Frances Trollope (1780-1863)
Rip Van Winkle , Washington Irving (1783-1859)
The Prairie , John James Audubon (1785-1851)
[from] A Son of the Forest , William Apes (1798-?)
The Maypole of Merry Mount , Nathaniel Hawthore (1804-1864)
The Two Camps , William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870)
[from] Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl , Harriet Jacobs (c. 1813-1897)
[from] The Heroic Slave , Frederick Douglass (c. 1815-1862)
[from] La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West , Francis Parkman (1823-1893)
John Lamar , Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)
"Posson Jone'" , George Washington Cable (1844-1925)
[from] Life Among the Piutes , Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1844-1891)
La Belle Zoraïde , Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
The Sheriff's Children , Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)
Circumstances , Abraham Cahan (1860-1951)
In the Land of the Free
Neighbour Rosicky , Willa Cather (1873-1947)
[from] Giants in the Earth , Ole Rölvaag (1876-1931)
[from] The Promised Land , Mary Antin (1881-1949)
[from] Dust Tracks on the Road , Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
[from] Wah'kon-Tah , John Joseph Mathews (c. 1894-1979)
[from] Jews Without Money , Michael Gold (1894-1967)
[from] Becky , Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
A Justice , William Faulkner (1897-1962)
[from] Pnin , Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
Studs , James T. Farrell (1904- )
Antranik of Armenia , William Saroyan (1908-1981)
[from] Black Boy , Richard Wright (1908-1960)
[from] Mount Allegro , Jerre Mangione (1909- )
[from] Christ in Concrete , Pietro Di Donato (1911- )
[from] America Is in the Heart , Carlos Bulosan (1913-1956)
Flying Home , Ralph Ellison (1914- )
A Silver Dish , Saul Bellow (1915- )
[from] Eat a Bowl of Tea , Louis Chu (1915-1970)
Tears of Autumn , Yoshiko Uchida (1921- )
[from] No-No Boy , John Okada (1923-1971)
[from] I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , Maya Angelou (1928- )
El Patron , Nash Candelaria (1928- )
[from] Sula , Toni Morrison (1931- )
[from] Sound-Shadows of the New World , Ved Mehta (1934- )
[from] The Way to Rainy Mountain , N. Scott Momaday (1934- )
The Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada Mountains , Maxine Hong Kingston (1940- )
Rosa in Television Land , Daniela Gioseffi (1941- )
News from Phoenix , Joseph Geha (1944- )
Exchange Value , Charles Johnson (1948- )
The Man to Send Rain Clouds , Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- )
Mariah , Jamaica Kincaid (1949- )
Half and Half , Amy Tan (1952- )
The Red Convertible , Louise Erdrich (1954- )