To _____. Ulalume: A ballad 615
Annabel Lee 618
Ligeia 619
The fall of the house of usher 629
William Wilson. A tale 642
The man of the crowd 656
The masque of the red death 662
The tell-tale heart 666
The black cat 670
The purloined letter 676
The facts in the case of M. Valdemar 690
The cask of Amontillado 696
The philosophy of composition 701
From The poetic principle 710
ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865) 712
A house divided: speech delivered at Springfield, Illinois, at the close of the Republican state convention, June 16, 1858 714
Address delivered at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863 720
Second Inaugural address, March 4, 1865 721
MARGARET FULLER (1810-1850) 722
The great lawsuit 725
Review of narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave 760
Fourth of July 762
Things and Thoughts in Europe 764
Letter XVIII 764
SLAVERY, RACE, AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN LITERATURE 769
THOMAS JEFFERSON: From Notes on the state of Virginia 770
DAVID WALKER: From David Walker's Appeal in four articles 773
SAMUEL E. CORNISH AND JOHN B. RUSSWURM: To our patrons 777
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON: To the public 780
ANGLEINA E. GRIMKE: From appeal to the Christian Women of the south
SOJOURNER TRUTH: Speech to the women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851
JAMES M. WHITEFIELD: Stanzas for the first of August 787
MARTIN R. DELANY: From Political destiny of the colored race on the American continent 789