The American authors listed below have written some of the greatest literature of all time. These books paved the way for the future of American writing and reading them is a great way to spend that rainy Summer afternoon!
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"...the driver with her microscopic sunshade. “Please let me speak!” she called. Mr. Cobb drew up the horses..."
Such is the lament of George Trimble, just one of the many good folk of Spoon River--late of the grave and raised from the dead to bear witness to life....
"...to her little space by Ella and Kate and Mag— All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill..."
The price of honor…
Myles Falworth was only eight years old the day a knight in black rode into the courtyard of his father’s castle with murderous intent,...
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"...of Poe’s place in Americanliterature—an essay of mine, by the way, in the current Atlantic. Coming..."
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"...against a fearsome white whale many years before, Ahab vows his revenge against MobyDick--a vow that has become Ahab's deadly obsession. After many months at sea, MobyDick is spotted, and Ahab engages..."
From glistening ice roads to frozen canals, in a wonderland where even the richest nobles thrill to the gliding joys of winter, everyone is awaiting the...
"...From glistening ice roads to frozen canals, in a wonderland where even the richest nobles thrill to the gliding joys of winter, everyone is awaiting the....
From glistening ice roads to frozen canals, in a wonderland where even the richest nobles thrill to the gliding joys of winter, everyone is awaiting the fabulous race to win the magnificent Silver Skates -- Except Hans Brinker and his sister Gretel. For the Brinkers are desperately poor, friendless; with a father felled by a cripplin..."
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"...could contrive, to win the child into the sense of knowing me. I spent the day with her out..."
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"..., if I can help it.” “I’ll try and be what he loves to callme, a ‘little woman,’ and not be rough..."
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"..., and Dorothy a little bed in another corner. There was no garret at all, and no cellar—except a small hole, dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great..."
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"...dear mother (her name is Æthra) told me his story while I was yet a little child. But it is only..."
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".... James Dillingham Young came home and reached his flat above he was called “Jim” and greatly hugged..."
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"..., and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of The JungleBook includes a Biographical Note..."
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".... The youth was in a little trance of astonishment. So they were at last going to fight. On the morrow..."
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"..., and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of The SecretGarden includes a Foreword..."
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"..., and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of The Last of the Mohicans includes a Foreword..."
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"...to admit of a doubt. I have even talked with RipVanWinkle myself, who, when last I saw him, was a very..."
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"..., and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of The Legend of SleepyHollow includes an Introduction and Afterword by Charles L. Grant. SleepyHollow is a strange little place...some say bewitched..."
Tom Sawyer has an eye for adventure and is always getting into scrapes with his friends and partners in crime, Huck Finn and Joe Harper. His escapades often...
"...Tom Sawyer has an eye for adventure and is always getting into scrapes with his friends and partners in crime, Huck Finn and Joe Harper. His escapades often....
Tom Sawyer has an eye for adventure and is always getting into scrapes with his friends and partners in crime, Huck Finn and Joe Harper. His escapades often lead him into dangerous and desperate situations, but he always turns these to his advantage..."