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Books & documents
- The green ray, tr. by M. de Hauteville (1883) — Jules Verne Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- The International library of famous literature : selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes and with introductions (1898) — Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell, Nathan Haskell Dole, Forrest Morgan, Caroline Ticknor Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp01-01773r000100100001-2: HANDWRITTEN NOTES (1946) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp80s01540r002200090001-3: (SANITIZED)ISSUE OF THE WEST BERLIN NEWSPAPER TELEGRAF(SANITIZED) (1953) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp73-00475r000402690001-6: TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: TEACHERS APPEAL FOR PEACE IN VIETNAM (1966) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- The Green Ray (1965) — JUles Verne Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Green Ray (2015) — Jules Verne Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Green Ray & the Blockade Runners (1965) — Jules Verne Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Rayon Vert (2017) — Mary de Hauteville, Ivan Aivazovsky, Antoine van Dyck, Jules Verne Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Godfrey Morgan a Californian Mystery and the Green Ray (2 Books) (2016) — Jules Verne Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The Horror hall of fame (1991) — Robert Silverberg, Martin H. Greenberg, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition (1952) — James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, Kerry M. Wood, John Smith, William Bradford, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, Anne Bradstreet, Taylor, Edward, Phillis Wheatley, Philip Morin Freneau, Benjamin Franklin, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, James W. C. Pennington, Francis Wright, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Rowe Snow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Seattle Chief, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Mollie Dorsey Sanford, Sidney Lanier, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Satanta, Chief Joseph, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Lee Masters, James Thurber, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elinor Wylie, Sara Teasdale, T. S. Eliot, James Weldon Johnson, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, William Carlos Williams, E. E. Cummings, Phyllis McGinley, Arna Bontemps, Claude McKay, Margaret Walker, Robinson Jeffers, Louise Bogan, Lewis Thomas, Dorothy Parker, Tennessee Williams, Robert Anderson, Lillian Hellman, Patrick F. McManus, William Least Heat Moon, Richard Rodriguez, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Mona Van Duyn, Richard Wilbur, Denise Levertov, David Wagoner, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hayden, Karl Jay Shapiro, Adrienne Rich, Richard Eberhart, May Swenson, Mari Evans, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Robert Lowell, Galway Kinnell, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, Gwendolyn Brooks, John N. Morris, Sylvia Plath, Amiri Baraka, Vern Rutsala, N. Scott Momaday, Lawson Fusao Inada, Jim Wayne Miller, James Masao Mitsui, Gary Soto, Leslie Silko, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Isaac Asimov, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, Carson McCullers, Kurt Vonnegut, Flannery O'Connor, Ray Bradbury, Eugenia Collier, Annie Dillard, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Walter Blair, Paul Farmer, Theodore Hornberger, Margaret Wasson, Conrad Richter, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Pearl S. Buck, Robert Penn Warren, William Saroyan, Conrad Aiken, Sinclair Lewis, Esther Forbes, Byrd, William, John Smith, George Washington, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Herman Melville, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Henry Timrod, Abram Joseph Ryan, Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, O. Henry, Tom Wolfe, Stephen Vincent Benét, Irwin Shaw, Paul Engle, W. H. Auden, Vachel Lindsay, Leonie Adams, James Wright, Ogden Nash, David McCord, Morris Bishop, Richard Willard Armour, Don Marquis, E. J. Kahn, Paul Horgan, W. L. White, John Davenport, E. B. White, Jacques Barzun, George Santayana, Cleveland Amory, Norman Cousins, Frank C. Laubach, Vannevar Bush, Jesse Stuart, Douglas Southall Freeman, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Philip Hamburger, Eugene O'Neill, Robert C. Pooley, Clarence Day, Thornton Wilder, Theresa Helburn, Brad Schulberg Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The best horror stories (1990) — Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, John Keir Cross, Edgar Allan Poe, Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Honoré de Balzac, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Burke, Arthur Conan Doyle, Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, A. E. Coppard, Dorothy L. Sayers, Cornell Woolrich, Geoffrey Household, Graham Greene, Cyril M. Kornbluth, John Collier, Robert Silverberg, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Roald Dahl, Stanley Ellin, Patricia Highsmith, Daphne du Maurier, David Fletcher Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition (2010) — Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Антон Павлович Чехов, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Shirley Jackson, James Joyce, Herman Melville, Alice Munro, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Proulx, Alice Walker, Richard Wright Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time (1998) — Otto Penzler, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Melville Davisson Post, Ernest William Hornung, Edith Wharton, Jack London, O. Henry, Jacques Futrelle, Robert Barr, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Frederick Irving Anderson, Vincent Starrett, Aldous Huxley, Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Burke, Georges Simenon, Logan Clendening, James Gould Cozzens, Lord Dunsany, John Collier, Ben Ray Redman, Robert Bloch, Barry Perowne, James Thurber, C. P. Donnel, Harry Kemelman, Ogden Nash, Stanley Ellin, A. A. Milne, Ellery Queen, Evan Hunter, Mickey Spillane, Jack Ritchie, Patricia Highsmith, Edward D. Hoch, Isaac Asimov, John Gardner, Stephen King, Clark Howard, Ruth Rendell, Lawrence Block, Stephen Greenleaf, James Ellroy, Sara Paretsky, Harlan Ellison, Charles McCarry, Elmore Leonard Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition (2015) — Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Антон Павлович Чехов, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel García Márquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Shirley Jackson, James Joyce, Jack London, Herman Melville, Alice Munro, 村上春樹, Vladimir Nabokov, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Proulx, Philip Roth, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Edith Wharton, Richard Wright, Albert Camus Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Treasury of Great Short Stories (1984) — Woody Allen, Ray Bradbury, John Steinbeck, Roald Dahl, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Stephen King, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, ANON Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror (1982) — Editors of Readers Digest, Arthur Conan Doyle, C. S. Forester, Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh, Guy de Maupassant, John Russell, Algernon Blackwood, John Collier, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Truman Capote, Alfred Noyes, Montague Rhodes James, Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, Leslie Charteris, Lord Dunsany, Ellery Queen, Ambrose Bierce, Daphne du Maurier, Thomas Burke, Robert Barr, John Dickson Carr, André Maurois, Richard Middleton, H.P. Lovecraft, Cornell Woolrich, Gilbert Highet, Alfred McLelland Burrage, Ian Fleming, Gertrude Atherton, Carl Stephenson, W. W. Jacobs, George Hitchcock, William Hope Hodgson, Ross Macdonald, Rudyard Kipling, Georges Simenon, Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, H. G. Wells, Erle Stanley Gardner, Saki, Arthur C. Clarke Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level (2002) — Kate Kinsella, Aesop, Joan Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, Russell Baker, Basho Matsuo, Ray Bradbury, Lewis Carroll, Sandra Cisneros, Lucille Clifton, Olivia E. Coolidge, Bill Cosby, Harold Courlander, E. E. Cummings, Karen Cushman, Walter De la Mare, Charles Dickens, James Dickey, Emily Dickinson, Annie Dillard, Jacqueline Dineen, Jack Finney, Robert Frost, Ernesto Galarza, Chief Dan George, Nikki Giovanni, Reid Goldsborough, Alex Haley, Virginia Hamilton, Thomas Hardy, Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, James Herriot, Edward D. Hoch, Richard Holler, Phillip Hoose, Israel Horovitz, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Barbara Jordan, Rudyard Kipling, Jon Krakauer, Maxine Kumin, William W. Lace, Don Lessem, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Naomi Long Madgett, Eve Merriam, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pat Mora, Walter Dean Myers, Ogden Nash, Alfred Noyes, Charles Osgood, Raymond R. Patterson, Josephine Preston Peabody, Juliet Piggott, Edgar Allan Poe, Anna Quindlen, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Wendy Rose, Cynthia Rylant, Carl Sandburg, William Saroyan, Rod Serling, Robert Service, William Shakespeare, Shel Silverstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, William Jay Smith, Gary Soto, James Stephens, Amy Tan, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Piri Thomas, James Thurber, Mark Twain, James Ramsey Ullman, Alice Walker, Geoffrey C. Ward, Anne Terry White, Walt Whitman, Laurence Yep, Gillian Standing, Paul Stillwell, Edith Wharton, Jim Willard, Terry Willard, Jane Wilson Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Reader's Companion -- Bronze Level (2003) — Pearson Education, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Amy Tan, Alex Haley, Ernest Hemingway, Bill Cosby, Alice Walker, Gary Soto, Anna Quindlen, William Saroyan, Joan Aiken, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Mark Twain, Sandra Cisneros, James Thurber, Ray Bradbury, Alfred Noyes, Piri Thomas, Charles Osgood, James Herriot, Lucille Clifton, Zora Neale Hurston, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, Cynthia Rylant, Laurence Yep, Walter Dean Myers, James Dickey, Annie Dillard, Chief Dan George, Barbara Jordan, Israel Horovitz, Robert Service, Edgar Allan Poe, Pat Mora, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Juliet Piggott, Virginia Hamilton, Anne Terry White, Josephine Peabody, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Walter De la Mare, Jack Finney, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Eve Merriam, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent Millay, James Ramsey Ullman, Jon Krakauer, William Shakespeare, Seamus Heaney, Robert Frost, Geoffrey C. Ward, Thomas Hardy, Phillip M. Hoose, Naomi Shihab Nye, E. E. Cummings, Maxine Kumin, Shel Silverstein, Lewis Carroll, Jane Yolen, Sherwood Anderson, Russell Baker, William W. Lace, Ernesto Galarza, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, James Stephens, Nikki Giovanni, William Jay Smith, Basho Matsuo, Raymond R. Patterson, Carl Sandburg, Naomi Cornelia Long Madgett, Wendy Rose, Harold Courtlander, Aesop, Olivia E. Coolidge Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Bronze (2001) — Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Aesop, Joan Aiken, Ai-Ling Louie, Sherwood Anderson, Russell Baker, Basho Matsuo, George Blecher, Alain Boubil, Ray Bradbury, Daniel Crump Buchanan, Inea Bushnaq, John Caird, Lewis Carroll, Антон Павлович Чехов, Sandra Cisneros, Lucille Clifton, Olivia E. Coolidge, Bill Cosby, Harold Courlander, E. E. Cummings, Karen Cushman, Jim Davis, Walter De la Mare, Charles Dickens, James Dickey, Emily Dickinson, Annie Dillard, Jacqueline Dineen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Essoyan, Jack Finney, Robert Frost, Ernesto Galarza, Chief Dan George, Nikki Giovanni, Reid Goldsborough, Alex Haley, Virginia Hamilton, Michael Hardwick, Mollie Hardwick, Thomas Hardy, Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, James Herriot, Edward D. Hoch, Richard Holler, Phillip Hoose, Israel Horovitz, Johnette Howard, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Washington Irving, Barbara Jordan, Rudyard Kipling, Jon Krakauer, Herbert Kretzmer, Maxine Kumin, Charles Kuralt, William W. Lace, Gary Larson, Don Lessem, H. N. Levitt, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mary MacLeod, Jay Macpherson, Naomi Long Madgett, Mai Vo-Dinh, Hugh Masekela, Eve Merriam, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Minamoto No Sanetomo, Pat Mora, Walter Dean Myers, Myoe, Jean-Marc Natel, Ogden Nash, Alfred Noyes, Trevor Nunn, Naomi Shihab Nye, Mary Oliver, Mary O'Neill, Charles Osgood, Raymond R. Patterson, Josephine Preston Peabody, Juliet Piggott, Edgar Allan Poe, Anna Quindlen, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Paul Reiser, Wendy Rose, Christina Georgina Rosetti, Cynthia Rylant, Carl Sandburg, William Saroyan, John Godfrey Saxe, Rod Serling, Robert Service, Blanche Serwer-Bernstein, Idries Shah, William Shakespeare, Shel Silverstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, William Jay Smith, Gary Soto, James Stephens, John Strege, Amy Tan, Sara Teasdale, Hernando Tellez, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Piri Thomas, James Thurber, Lone Thygesen-Blecher, Mark Twain, James Ramsey Ullman, Alice Walker, Geoffrey C. Ward, Anne Terry White, Walt Whitman, Richard Wilbur, William Butler Yeats, Laurence Yep, Jane Yolen Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
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