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Modern Prose And Poetry For Secondary Schools, by Margaret Ashmun, M.A

Modern Prose And Poetry For Secondary Schools, by Margaret Ashmun, M.A

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Editor
Ashmun, Margaret, 1875-1940
Title
Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists
Credits
Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
American literature
Category
Text
eBook-No.
17160
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17160
Release Date
November 26, 2005
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.MODERN PROSE AND POETRY FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS — EDITED
  2. 2.MARGARET ASHMUN, M.A. — Formerly Instructor in English in the University of Wisconsin — Editor of Prose Literature for Secondary Schools
  3. 3.PREFACE
  4. 4.CONTENTS
  5. 5.MODERN PROSE AND POETRY FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS
  6. 6.A DAY AT LAGUERRE'S — F. HOPKINSON SMITH — NOTES — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY — THEME SUBJECTS — SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING — COLLATERAL READINGS
  7. 7.QUITE SO — THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH — (In Marjorie Daw, and Other Stories ) — I — II — III — NOTES — QUESTIONS FOR STUDY — THEME SUBJECTS — SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING — COLLATERAL READINGS
  8. 8.PAN IN WALL STREET — A.D. 1867 — EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN — NOTES — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY — COLLATERAL READINGS
  9. 9.THE HAND OF LINCOLN — EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN — NOTES — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY — COLLATERAL READINGS
  10. 10.JEAN VALJEAN — AUGUSTA STEVENSON — (Dramatized from Victor Hugo's Les Misérables ) — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY — EXERCISES [8] — COLLATERAL READINGS
  11. 11.A COMBAT ON THE SANDS — MARY JOHNSTON — (From To Have and to Hold , Chapters XXI and XXII) — NOTES — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY — THEME SUBJECTS — SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING — COLLATERAL READINGS
  12. 12.THE GRASSHOPPER — EDITH M. THOMAS — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY — EXERCISES — COLLATERAL READINGS
  13. 13.MOLY — EDITH M. THOMAS — NOTES — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY — COLLATERAL READINGS — PICTURES
  14. 14.THE PROMISED LAND — MARY ANTIN — (From Chapter IX of The Promised Land ) — NOTES — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY — THEME SUBJECTS — SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING — COLLATERAL READINGS
  15. 15.WARBLE FOR LILAC-TIME — WALT WHITMAN — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
  16. 16.WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER — WALT WHITMAN — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
  17. 17.VIGIL STRANGE I KEPT ON THE FIELD ONE NIGHT — WALT WHITMAN — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY — EXERCISES — THEME SUBJECTS — COLLATERAL READINGS
  18. 18.ODYSSEUS IN PHAEACIA — TRANSLATED BY GEORGE HERBERT PALMER — NOTES — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY — THEME SUBJECTS — SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING — COLLATERAL READINGS
  19. 19.ODYSSEUS — GEORGE CABOT LODGE — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY — EXERCISES — COLLATERAL READINGS
  20. 20.A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE — WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS — (In Suburban Sketches ) — NOTES — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY — THEME SUBJECTS — SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING — COLLATERAL READINGS
  21. 21.THE WILD RIDE — LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
  22. 22.CHRISTMAS IN THE WOODS — DALLAS LORE SHARP — (In The Lay of the Land ) — NOTES — QUESTIONS FOR STUDY — THEME SUBJECTS — SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING — COLLATERAL READINGS
  23. 23.GLOUCESTER MOORS — WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY — NOTES — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
  24. 24.ROAD-HYMN FOR THE START — WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
  25. 25.ON A SOLDIER FALLEN IN THE PHILIPPINES — WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY — COLLATERAL READINGS
  26. 26.THE COON DOG — SARAH ORNE JEWETT — (In The Queen's Twin and Other Stories ) — I — II — III — IV — V — NOTES — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY — THEME SUBJECTS — SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING — COLLATERAL READINGS
  27. 27.ON THE LIFE-MASK OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN — RICHARD WATSON GILDER — NOTES — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY — COLLATERAL READINGS
  28. 28.A FIRE AMONG THE GIANTS — JOHN MUIR — (From Our National Parks ) — NOTES — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY — THEME SUBJECTS — SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING — COLLATERAL READINGS
  29. 29.WAITING — JOHN BURROUGHS — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY — COLLATERAL READINGS — EXERCISES
  30. 30.THE PONT DU GARD — HENRY JAMES — (Chapter xxvi of A Little Tour in France ) — NOTES — QUESTIONS FOR STUDY — THEME SUBJECTS — SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING — COLLATERAL READINGS
  31. 31.THE YOUNGEST SON OF HIS FATHER'S HOUSE — ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY — COLLATERAL READINGS
  32. 32.TENNESSEE'S PARTNER — BRET HARTE — NOTES — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY — THEME SUBJECTS — SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING — COLLATERAL READINGS
  33. 33.THE COURSE OF AMERICAN HISTORY — WOODROW WILSON — (In Mere Literature ) — NOTES — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY — THEME SUBJECTS — SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING — COLLATERAL READINGS
  34. 34.WHAT I KNOW ABOUT GARDENING — CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER — (From My Summer in a Garden ) — NINTH WEEK — TENTH WEEK — NOTES — QUESTIONS FOR STUDY — THEME SUBJECTS — SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING — COLLATERAL READINGS
  35. 35.THE SINGING MAN — JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY — I — II — III — IV — V — NOTES — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY [15] — COLLATERAL READINGS
  36. 36.THE DANCE OF THE BON-ODORI — LAFCADIO HEARN — (From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan , Volume I, Chapter VI) — I — II — NOTES — SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY — THEME SUBJECTS — SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING — COLLATERAL READINGS
  37. 37.LETTERS
  38. 38.THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH TO WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
  39. 39.THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH TO E.S. MORSE
  40. 40.WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY TO JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY
  41. 41.BRET HARTE TO HIS WIFE
  42. 42.LAFCADIO HEARN TO BASIL HALL CHAMBERLAIN
  43. 43.CHARLES ELIOT NORTON TO WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS — NOTES — EXERCISES IN LETTER WRITING — BOOKS FOR READING AND STUDY
  44. 44.EXERCISES IN DRAMATIC COMPOSITION
  45. 45.MODERN BOOKS FOR HOME READING — Not included in the lists of Collateral Readings — BOOKS OF FICTION — NON-FICTION BOOKS — FOOTNOTES:

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