American Lit Update

In order to keep ourselves entertained around the campfire I brought the American Anthology of American Literature Volume II (which is a leftover textbook from college). At night I've been opening up the book at random and reading whatever's there. This is what we have read so far:

Mark Twain
The Dandy and the Squatter: a story about a gentleman who tries to impress some ladies by making fun of a country man
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County: a story about a man who likes to gamble on his frog

Kate Chopin
The Awakening: a story about a New Orleans society lady who becomes unhappy with her life and tries to change it

Kurt Vonnegut
Welcome to the Monkeyhouse: a story about a potential future american society where people take pills to paralize themselves from the waist down in order to decrease the population


We are in the middle of reading:

W E B Du Bois
The Souls Of Black Folks: a collection of essays about what it meant to be black at the turn of the 20th century