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496 pages ; 24 cm |
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From The education of Henry Adams / Henry Adams -- from The Puritan shadow / Arthur Train -- The Copley-Plaza / Nancy Hale -- from Ex-prodigy / Norbert Wiener -- from The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X -- from The Worcester account / S.N. Behrman -- from Our Philadelphia / Elizabeth Robins Pennell -- from The view from here / Robert Coates -- from That New York / Percy Seitlin -- A little girl's New York / Edith Wharton -- Father's home disappears / Clarence Day -- from The harbor / Ernest Poole -- from Let there be sculpture / Jacob Epstein -- Merry Christmas in the tenements / Jacob Riis -- from Queen of the golden age / Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. -- Mammon and the archer / O. Henry -- from Harpo speaks / Harpo Marx -- from Those days / Hamilton Fish Armstrong -- from Some picture show audiences / Mary Heaton Vorse -- from Philosopher's holiday / Irwin Edman -- The Black blocks of Harlem / Konrad Bercovici -- When the Negro was in vogue / Langston Hughes -- from Girl from Fitchburg / Bernadine Kielty Scherman -- from A walker in the city / Alfred Kazin -- from Under the boardwalk / Norman Rosten -- from Union Square / Albert Halper -- Beginning with the undertaker / A.J. Liebling -- A house on the heights / Truman Capote -- Here is New York / E.B. White. |
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from Happy days / H.L. Mencken -- from Carp's Washington / Frank Carpenter -- from More lives than one / James Wood Krutch -- Knoxville : summer of 1915 / James Agee -- from Black boy / Richard Wright -- A New Orleans childhood / Hamilton Basso -- Storyville days and nights / Louis Armstrong -- My most humiliating Jim Crow experience / Langston Hughes -- The figgerin' of Aunt Wilma / James Thurber -- My father's grocery store / Paul M. Angle -- from An autobiographical novel / Kenneth Rexroth -- from The magnificent Ambersons / Booth Tarkington -- from My life / Claude Bowers -- from Journey to the end of the night / Louis-Ferdinand Céline -- from Twenty years at Hull House / Jane Addams -- Vehicles out of the ordinary / George Ade -- from The pit / Frank Norris -- from Dawn / Theodore Dreiser -- from A goodly fellowship / Mary Ellen Chase -- from A peculiar treasure / Edna Ferber -- Twilight of a golden age / Ernest Meyer -- from Because I was flesh / Edward Dahlberg -- from Virgil Thomson / Virgil Thomson -- from The day I met a lion / Mackinlay Kantor -- from American city / Charles Rumford Walker -- from Shadow and act / Ralph Ellison -- from It has its charms / Charles W. Morton -- from McTeague / Frank Norris -- San Francisco looks west / John Dos Passos -- from Los Angeles : the ultimate city / Christopher Rand. |
| Subject |
Cities and towns -- Literary collections.
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American literature.
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Authors, American.
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| Added Author |
MacLean, Helene, compilor.
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| ISBN |
0670224537 |
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