Contents • xv
931 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
933 The Slave Mother
934 Free Labor
935 An Appeal to the American People
937 The Development of Narrative
940 Washington Irving (1783-1859)
940 Rip Van \X'inkle
953 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
955 My Kinsman, Major Molineux
968 Young Goodman Brown
977 The Birth-mark
988 Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
990 Ligeia
1001 The Fall of the lIouse of Usher 1014 The Purloined Letter
1027 Sonnet—To Science
1028 To Helen
1028 The Raven
1032 Annabel Lee
1033 Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
1035 Uncie Tom's Cabin
1035 I: In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity
1042 VII: The Mother's Struggle
1047 XIII: The Quaker Settlement
1053 XL: The Martyr
1055 Herman Melville (1819-1891)
1058 Bartleby, the Scrivener
1084 Benito Cerena
1141 Alice Cary (1820-1871)
1143 Clovernook, Second Series
1143 Uncle Christopher's
1158 Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)
1160 Life in the Iron-Mills