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Fiction.
My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Purloined Letter / Edgar Allan Poe
Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville
The story of an hour / Kate Chopin
Heartache / Anton Chekhov
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The marine excursion of the Knights of Pythias / Stephen Leacock
The bride comes to yellow sky / Stephen Crane
Araby / James Joyce
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
The garden party / Katherine Mansfield
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner
The demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen
A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway
A cap for Steve / Morley Callaghan
The painted door / Sinclair Ross
Antigone / Sheila Watson
Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty
The swimmer / John Cheever
The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud
A sunrise on the veld / Doris Lessing
The ice wagon going down the street / Mavis Gallant
Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor
A bird in the house / Margaret Laurence
Lost in the funhouse / John Barth
Family furnishings / Alice Munro
The boat / Alistair MacLeod
The lady from Lucknow / Bharati Mukherjee
Borders / Thomas King
The collectors / Rohinton Mistry
Fleur / Louise Erdrich

Poetry.
The miller's prologue and tale / Geoffrey Chaucer
Shall I compare there ... ; When, in disgrace ... ; No more be grieved ... ; Not marble nor the gilded monuments ; Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea ; that time of year though mayst in me behold ; My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun / William Shakespeare
The good morrow ; The sun rising ; The canoniztion; The relic ; Death, be not proud ; Batter my heart / John Donne
Delight in disorder ; Upon Julia's clothes ; To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick
On Shakespeare ; how soon hath time ; Lycidas ; When I consider how my light is spent / John Milton
To his coy mistress ; The garden ; The fair singer ; The coronet / Andrew Marvell
Eloisa to Abelard ; Epistle IV: to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlingon / Alexander Pope
The lamb ; The clod and the pebble ; The chimney-sweeper ; The sick rose ; The tyger ; London ; Auguries of innocence / William Blake
I wandered lonely as a cloud ; Ode: intimations of immortality ; Composed upon Westminster Bridge ; The world is too much with us ; Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey / William Wordsworth
Ode to a nightingale ; Ode on a Grecian urn ; Ode to autumn ; La belle dames sans merci ; Bright star ; On the sonnet / John Keats
The lady of Shalott ; Ulysses ; Tears, idle tears ; Dark house, by which once more I stand ; A happy lover who has come ; Now fades the last long streak of snow / Alfred, Lord Tennyson-- Solioquy of the Spanish cloister ; my last duchess ; The bishop orders his tomb ; Porphyria's lover / Robert Browning
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry ; I hear America singing ; A sight in camp in the daybreak grey and dim ; The ox-tamer ; The dalliance of the eagles / Walt Whitman
Success is counted sweetest ; I'm 'wife'
I've finished that ; The heart asks pleasure
first ; Because I could not stop for death ; What is
'Paradise' ; I never hear the word ; I heard a fly buzz / Emily Dickinson
Hap ; The darkling thrush ; The convergence of the twain ; The oxen ; During wind and rain ; In time of 'The breaking of nations' / Thomas Hardy
God's grandeur ; The windhover ; Pied beauty ; Spring and fall: to a young child ; Though art indeed just, Lord / Gerard Manley Hopkins
The death of Tennyson ; The city of the end of things ; Winter-solitude ; At the long sault: May 1660 / Archibald Lampman
The lake isle of Innisfree ; The wild swans at Coole ; The second coming ; Leda and the swan ; Among school children ; Sailing to Byzantium ; After long silence ; The circus animal's desertion / William Butler Yeats
Mending wall ; After apple-picking ; Birches ; Design ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; Provide, provied / Robert Frost
Sunday morning ; Anecdote of the jar ; Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird ; The snow man ; A high-toned old Christian woman ; Of modern poetry / Wallace Stevens
The shark ; One hour of life ; Erosion; Silences; The deed / E.J. Pratt
The widow's lament in springtime ; Spring and all ; The red wheelbarrow ; Flowers by the sea ; The last words of my English grandmother ; The yachts ; Landscape with the fall of Icarus / William Carlos Williams
The fish ; Nevertheless ; A Jellyfish / Marianne Moore
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; The hollow men ; Journey of the Magi ; Marina / T.S. Eliot
Buffalo Bill's ; Spring is like a perhaps hand ; somewhere i have never travelled ; my father moved through dooms of love ; pity this busy monster / e. e. cummings
Who's who ; As I walked out one evening ; Lullaby ; Musee des beaux arts ; In memory of W.B. Yeats ; The unknown citizen / W.H. Auden
Soiree of Velvel Kleinburger ; The rocking chair ; Portrait of the poet as landscape / A.M. Klein
The map ; First death in Nova Scotia ; In the waiting room ; One art / Elizabeth Bishop
The cold green element ; Berry picking ; Whatever else poetry is freedom ; Keine Lazarovitch 1870-1959 / Irving Layton
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower ; A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London ; Do not go gentle into that good night ; Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas
The stenographers ; Photos of a salt mine ; Arras ; The new bicycle ; Deaf-mute in the pear tree / P.K. Page
'To speak of woe that is in marriage' ; Skunk hour ; Water; For the union dead / Robert Lowell
Snow ; New Year's poem ; The swimmer's moment ; Butterfly bones; or sonnet against sonnets ; In a season of unemployment ; We the poor who are always with us / Margaret Avison
The poet's mother ; Hornbook #43 ; Hornbook #45 / Robert Kroetsch
Marvell's garden ; Lament ; To friends who have also considered suicide ; The days of the Unicorns / Phyllis Webb
The afterwake ; Moving in winter ; Novella ; Night-pieces: for a child ; Rape / Adrienne Rich
Sheep in fog ; Daddy ; Kindness ; Edge ; Words / Sylvia Plath
At the tourist centre in Boston ; Death of a young son by drowning ; Variations on the word Love ; Variation on the word Sleep ; Interlunar ; Morning in the burned house / Margaret Atwood
make it new ; attractive ; subversion in tokyo ; on the sublime / Roy Miki
Bearhug ; Letters & other worlds ; Elizabeth ; The cinnamon peeler / Michael Ondaatje
Essay on Adam ; The stonecutter's horses / Leda and the swan / Robert Bringhurst
Island vanish ; From thirsty / Dionne Brand
Look homeward, exile ; Bees' wings ; Blank sonnet ; Le tombeau de bishop ; Paris annapolis ; Burning poems / George Elliott Clarke

Drama.
Oedipus Rex / Sophocles
King Lear / William Shakespeare
The school for scandal / Robert Brinsley Sheridan
Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen
The importance of being Earnest / Oscar Wilde
Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw
Krapp's last tape / Samuel Beckett
The price / Arthur Miller
The zoo story / Edward Albee
Doc / Sharon Pollock
For the pleasure of seeing her again / Michel Tremblay
The Rez sisters / Tomson Highway

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Fiction.
My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe
Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville
The story of an hour / Kate Chopin
Heartache / Anton Chekhov
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The marine excursion of the Knights of Pythias / Stephen Leacock
The bride comes to yellow sky / Stephen Crane
Araby / James Joyce
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
The garden party / Katherine Mansfield
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner
The demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen
A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway
A cap for Steve / Morley Callaghan
The painted door / Sinclair Ross
Antigone / Sheila Watson
Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty
The swimmer / John Cheever
The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud
A sunrise on the veld / Doris Lessing
The ice wagon going down the street / Mavis Gallant
Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor
A bird in the house / Margaret Laurence
Lost in the funhouse / John Barth
Family furnishings / Alice Munro
The boat / Alistair MacLeod
The lady from Lucknow / Bharati Mukherjee
Borders / Thomas King
The collectors / Rohinton Mistry
Fleur / Louise Erdrich
Poetry.
The miller's prologue and tale / Geoffrey Chaucer
Shall I compare there ... ; When, in disgrace ... ; No more be grieved ... ; Not marble nor the gilded monuments ; Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea ; that time of year though mayst in me behold ; My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun / William Shakespeare
The good morrow ; The sun rising ; The canoniztion; The relic ; Death, be not proud ; Batter my heart / John Donne
Delight in disorder ; Upon Julia's clothes ; To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick
On Shakespeare ; how soon hath time ; Lycidas ; When I consider how my light is spent / John Milton
To his coy mistress ; The garden ; The fair singer ; The coronet / Andrew Marvell
Eloisa to Abelard ; Epistle IV: to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlingon / Alexander Pope
The lamb ; The clod and the pebble ; The chimney-sweeper ; The sick rose ; The tyger ; London ; Auguries of innocence / William Blake
I wandered lonely as a cloud ; Ode: intimations of immortality ; Composed upon Westminster Bridge ; The world is too much with us ; Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey / William Wordsworth
Ode to a nightingale ; Ode on a Grecian urn ; Ode to autumn ; La belle dames sans merci ; Bright star ; On the sonnet / John Keats
The lady of Shalott ; Ulysses ; Tears, idle tears ; Dark house, by which once more I stand ; A happy lover who has come ; Now fades the last long streak of snow / Alfred, Lord Tennyson-- Solioquy of the Spanish cloister ; my last duchess ; The bishop orders his tomb ; Porphyria's lover / Robert Browning
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry ; I hear America singing ; A sight in camp in the daybreak grey and dim ; The ox-tamer ; The dalliance of the eagles / Walt Whitman
Success is counted sweetest ; I'm 'wife'
I've finished that ; The heart asks pleasure
first ; Because I could not stop for death ; What is
'Paradise' ; I never hear the word ; I heard a fly buzz / Emily Dickinson
Hap ; The darkling thrush ; The convergence of the twain ; The oxen ; During wind and rain ; In time of 'The breaking of nations' / Thomas Hardy
God's grandeur ; The windhover ; Pied beauty ; Spring and fall: to a young child ; Though art indeed just, Lord / Gerard Manley Hopkins
The death of Tennyson ; The city of the end of things ; Winter-solitude ; At the long sault: May 1660 / Archibald Lampman
The lake isle of Innisfree ; The wild swans at Coole ; The second coming ; Leda and the swan ; Among school children ; Sailing to Byzantium ; After long silence ; The circus animal's desertion / William Butler Yeats
Mending wall ; After apple-picking ; Birches ; Design ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; Provide, provied / Robert Frost
Sunday morning ; Anecdote of the jar ; Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird ; The snow man ; A high-toned old Christian woman ; Of modern poetry / Wallace Stevens
The shark ; One hour of life ; Erosion; Silences; The deed / E.J. Pratt
The widow's lament in springtime ; Spring and all ; The red wheelbarrow ; Flowers by the sea ; The last words of my English grandmother ; The yachts ; Landscape with the fall of Icarus / William Carlos Williams
The fish ; Nevertheless ; A Jellyfish / Marianne Moore
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; The hollow men ; Journey of the Magi ; Marina / T.S. Eliot
Buffalo Bill's ; Spring is like a perhaps hand ; somewhere i have never travelled ; my father moved through dooms of love ; pity this busy monster / e. e. cummings
Who's who ; As I walked out one evening ; Lullaby ; Musee des beaux arts ; In memory of W.B. Yeats ; The unknown citizen / W.H. Auden
Soiree of Velvel Kleinburger ; The rocking chair ; Portrait of the poet as landscape / A.M. Klein
The map ; First death in Nova Scotia ; In the waiting room ; One art / Elizabeth Bishop
The cold green element ; Berry picking ; Whatever else poetry is freedom ; Keine Lazarovitch 1870-1959 / Irving Layton
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower ; A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London ; Do not go gentle into that good night ; Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas
The stenographers ; Photos of a salt mine ; Arras ; The new bicycle ; Deaf-mute in the pear tree / P.K. Page
'To speak of woe that is in marriage' ; Skunk hour ; Water; For the union dead / Robert Lowell
Snow ; New Year's poem ; The swimmer's moment ; Butterfly bones; or sonnet against sonnets ; In a season of unemployment ; We the poor who are always with us / Margaret Avison
The poet's mother ; Hornbook #43 ; Hornbook #45 / Robert Kroetsch
Marvell's garden ; Lament ; To friends who have also considered suicide ; The days of the Unicorns / Phyllis Webb
The afterwake ; Moving in winter ; Novella ; Night-pieces: for a child ; Rape / Adrienne Rich
Sheep in fog ; Daddy ; Kindness ; Edge ; Words / Sylvia Plath
At the tourist centre in Boston ; Death of a young son by drowning ; Variations on the word Love ; Variation on the word Sleep ; Interlunar ; Morning in the burned house / Margaret Atwood
make it new ; attractive ; subversion in tokyo ; on the sublime / Roy Miki
Bearhug ; Letters & other worlds ; Elizabeth ; The cinnamon peeler / Michael Ondaatje
Essay on Adam ; The stonecutter's horses / Leda and the swan / Robert Bringhurst
Island vanish ; From thirsty / Dionne Brand
Look homeward, exile ; Bees' wings ; Blank sonnet ; Le tombeau de bishop ; Paris annapolis ; Burning poems / George Elliott Clarke
Drama.
Oedipus Rex / Sophocles
King Lear / William Shakespeare
The school for scandal / Robert Brinsley Sheridan
Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen
The importance of being Earnest / Oscar Wilde
Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw
Krapp's last tape / Samuel Beckett
The price / Arthur Miller
The zoo story / Edward Albee
Doc / Sharon Pollock
For the pleasure of seeing her again / Michel Tremblay
The Rez sisters / Tomson Highway

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
2004

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.8
Library of Congress
PN6014.E44 2004

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
viii, 1349 p. ;
Number of pages
1349

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OL19656371M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0195418395
ISBN 13
9780195418392
Library Thing
1967649
Canadian National Library Archive
C2003-907070-0
Goodreads
59493470

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