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This is the full text of James Baldwin's short story "Sonny's Blues" in pdf form.

Please read the entire story.

If you have difficulty viewing the page, click the link for the page in its original context (seen near the top of this page or on the Trailfire page).
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A trail of 6 pages
This trail provides basic background information about the Beat Generation and two of the most famous writers from the Beat Generation, Alleng Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.  There are also text and audio versions of several poems by Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti.
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A trail of 15 pages
This trail shares information about the 1890 Massacre at Wounded Knee, the life and writing of Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), and the life and writing of Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa).
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A trail of 8 pages
Begin with the biographical information and continue to the trail markers in the Google Book version of Bradford's writing.
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A trail of 8 pages
Begin with this biography of Bradstreet by Virginia Commonwealth University professor Ann Woodlief.  Then continue along the trail.
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A trail of 8 pages
Follow this trail for information about Gwendolyn Brooks' life, to read several of her poems, and to view some interpretations of these poems.
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A trail of 9 pages
After reading this page,  click the link for "A Brief History of Cabeza de Vaca and La Relacion"
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A trail of 28 pages
Read the short story "The Goophered Grapevine" by Charles Waddell Chesnutt. This version uses the University of Virginia etext and is maintained by Berea College's
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A trail of 2 pages
This trail introduces readers to the lives and works of the authors Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
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A trail of 9 pages
This trail briefly introduces readers to the lives and work of Stephen Crane and Upton Sinclair.
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A trail of 11 pages
This trail introduces readers to the life and poetry of Countee Cullen.
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A trail of 11 pages
Read David Orique's biography of De Las Casas on this page and then continue the trail.
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A trail of 5 pages
Follow this trail to learn about Emily Dickinson's life , to read some of her poetry, and to read some explications of her poems.
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A trail of 13 pages
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A trail of 2 pages
This trail offers a brief introduction to the life and work of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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A trail of 5 pages
For an initial brief overview of the Enlightenment (or Age of Reason), read this page by Prof. Reubens.  He covers a great deal of material in his brief points. Then continue along the trail.
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A trail of 3 pages

Follow this trail to learn more about Olaudah Equiano and read from his autobiography.

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A trail of 11 pages
This trail introduces readers to F. Scott Fitzgerald, his novel The Great Gatsby, and the decade of the 1920s.
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A trail of 9 pages
Begin with this brief biography of Franklin from our friends at the Heath Anthology of American Literature.

After reading this page, continue along the trail.
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A trail of 4 pages
Begin your investigation of Freneau with this page from Prof. Paul Reuben and the excellently researched biography that was written by one of Reuben's students.
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A trail of 5 pages
This trail discusses Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and his short story "Rappaccini's Daughter."
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A trail of 6 pages
This trail provides an introduction to the life and work of Ernest Hemingway.
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A trail of 6 pages
This trail introduces readers to the life and poetry of Langston Hughes.
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A trail of 9 pages
This trail briefly introduces readers to the life and work of Zora Neale Hurston.
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A trail of 3 pages

This trail offers some basic explanations of the American Romanticism literary movement and an introduction to the short stories of Washington Irving.

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A trail of 8 pages
need to scroll down to table of contents
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A trail of 4 pages
This trail introduces students to the ideas of realism, regionalism, and naturalism in American literature and introduces the authors Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman as well as two of their stories.
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A trail of 8 pages
This is the University of Virginia Etext version of Chapter XVIII of A New Home - Who'll Follow?  You can read the webpages here or read the pages as they appear in the original text by clicking on the images of the pages.
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A trail of 6 pages
This trail provides an introduction to modern American poetry, including the works of William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, H.D., E.E. Cummings, and Gertrude Stein.
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A trail of 28 pages
This trail links to a number of pages offering  perspectives on literary modernism.
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A trail of 5 pages
This trails offers biographical information about the author Flannery O'Connor, a copy of her short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," and some questions to encourage further analysis.
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A trail of 5 pages
A short trail about Samson Occom and his short narrative.
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A trail of 3 pages
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A trail of 7 pages
This is an interactive edition of "The Raven". Use the arrows at the end of each stanza to move forward in the poem.
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A trail of 7 pages
Two short stories from Poe and a page about detective stories.
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A trail of 4 pages
This trail offers an extremely brief introduction to the life and work of Katherine Anne Porter and her short story "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall."
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A trail of 2 pages
Begin with this page which explains the concept of captivity narratives and offers an introduction to the context for Rowlandson's writings.

Then continue along the trail
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A trail of 4 pages
This trail provides a brief introduction to confessional poetry and the works of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath.
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A trail of 16 pages
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A trail of 5 pages
This trail discusses many of the concepts related to the American Transcendentalist movement and Henry David Thoreau and includes readings from Walden.
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A trail of 10 pages
This trail introduces readers to the life and writings of Jean Toomer.
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A trail of 4 pages
This trail offers a brief introduction to the life and work of Mark Twain.
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A trail of 10 pages
This trail gives a brief introduction to the lives and work of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois.
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A trail of 12 pages
This trail introduces some ideas to think about as we get started in English 2232 at Minneapolis Community and Technical College.
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A trail of 15 pages
This trail provides a brief look into the life and work of the American poet Phillis Wheatley.
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A trail of 7 pages
Follow this trail to learn about the poet Walt Whitman and to read a few of his poems.
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A trail of 8 pages
This short trail introduces readers to the work and ideas of Roger Williams.
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A trail of 3 pages
Begin with this brief biography of Woolman written by members of the
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A trail of 3 pages