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Classic Reader: Going Some by Rex Ellingwood Beach
This is the full text of the western novel Going Some by Rex Ellingwood Beach. Four cowboys inclined their bodies over the barbed-wire fence which marked the dividing-line between the Centipede Ranch and their own, staring mournfully...
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Classic Reader: The Free Rangers by Joseph A. Altsheler
This is the full text of the novel The Free Rangers by Joseph A. Altsheler, the story of five young "trailers" and "forest rangers," helping the settlers against the Indians and the Spaniards.
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Classic Reader: The Golden Canyon by G. A. Henty
This is the full text of the novel The Golden Canyon by G. A. Henty, a historical novel set in the American Wild West.
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Classic Reader: The Game by Jack London
This is the full text of the novel The Game by Jack London; it is about a twenty-year-old boxer Joe, who meets his death in the ring.
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Classic Reader: Guy Garrick by Arthur B. Reeve
This is the full text of the novel Guy Garrick by Arthur B. Reeve, a detective story. Guy Garrick, a detective who has made a scientific study of crime, has been the hero of a number of earlier short stories. In the present novel he is...
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Classic Reader: The Guardian Angel by Oliver Wendell Holmes
This is the full text of the novel The Guardian Angel by Oliver Wendell Holmes; it explores mental health and repressed memory, and Holmes uses the concept of the unconscious mind throughout his works.
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Classic Reader: Gullible's Travels, Etc. By Ring Lardner
This is the full text of the short story collection Gullible's Travels, Etc. by Ring Lardner, an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about sports, marriage, and the theater.
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Classic Reader: The Half Back by Ralph Henry Barbour
This is the full text of the novel The Half-Back by Ralph Henry Barbour, a story of school, football, and golf.
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Classic Reader: The Golden Fleece by Julian Hawthorne
This is the full text of the novel The Golden Fleece by Julian Hawthorne, a combination romance, adventure, metaphysical and mystery from the Victorian era by the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Classic Reader: The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer
This is the full text of the novel The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer, a sequel to The Yellow Claw. Sax Rohmer's famous detectives Gaston Max and Inspector Dunbar investigate an international gang of assassins that is mysteriously linked...
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Classic Reader: The Golden Slipper by Anna Katharine Green
This is the full text of the book The Golden Slipper by Anna Katharine Green, a collection of mystery stories featuring Violet Strange. "A daring debutante solves the crimes of upper-crust Manhattan in this groundbreaking story...
Washington State University
Washington State University: American Authors: James Fenimore Cooper (1789 1851)
From this website, access the works of James Fenimore Cooper, an American writer known for his short stories, novels, and essays. Also contains good biographical information about the writer.
Washington State University
Washington State University: American Literature
A comprehensive site devoted to American literature compiled by a professor of English at Washington State University. Includes an alphabetical index of American authors, with links to biographical information, works online, critical...
The Economist
The Economist: Economist: Obituary: Saul Bellow
A remembrance of Saul Bellow and the type of writer he was, published by the Economist on the occasion of his death (April 5, 2005), captures, in a few paragraphs, Bellow's legacy. Registration is required.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: William Faulkner Collection
This site focuses on the collection of Faulkner's work that is stored at the University of Virginia. Students and teachers will benefit from these resources.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Narratives of Amer. South
This site by The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, part of the 'Documenting the American South' project, contains information and texts about first-person narratives of the American south. These documents give the viewpoint of...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: A Short History of the Early American Novel
This article is a brief history of the Early American novel with citations.
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Lumen: American Literature: Introduction to Romantic Literature
This introduction to Romantic literature focuses on the learning outcomes of the study of various pieces of American Romantic literature. These include describe the major historical and cultural developments of the Romantic period,...
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Lumen: The Romantic Period, 1820 1860: Essayists and Poets
This lesson focuses on the Romantic Period's essayists and poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, the Brahmin Poets, and more.
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Lumen: American Literature: "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant
Use the text and the video "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant to identify and understand the characteristics of American Romanticism.
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Lumen: American Literature: "Wakefield" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Use the text excerpt and video "Wakefield" by Nathaniel Hawthorne to identify and understand the characteristics of American Romanticism.
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Lumen: American Romanticism: "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman
Use the text and video excerpt of "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman to identify and understand the characteristics of American Romanticism. "Song of Myself" is a poem by Walt Whitman that is included in his work Leaves of Grass. It has...
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Lumen: American Romanticism: The Indian Burying Ground by Philip Morin Freneau
This is the text and video reading of the poem "The Indian Burying Ground" by Philip Morin Freneau, an American poet, nationalist (also known as Federalist), polemicist, sea captain, and newspaper editor sometimes called the "Poet of the...
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Lumen: American Romanticism: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
This is an excerpt of the text and an audio book of the full text of the novella The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving