American Literaure Readings
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Literary Work |
Author |
Link |
"After Apple Picking"
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Robert Frost
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"A narrow fellow in the grass"
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Emily Dickinson |
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"Annabel Lee"
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Edgar Allan Poe |
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"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
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Ambrose Bierce |
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"anyone lived in a pretty how town"
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ee cummings |
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| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Mark Twain |
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin |
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"Because I could not stop for death"
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Emily Dickinson |
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| "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
"Casey at the Bat"
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Ernest Lawrence Thayer |
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"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
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Mark Twain |
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"Chicago"
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Carl Sandburg |
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The Crisis
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Thomas Paine |
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The Declaration of Independence
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Thomas Jefferson |
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"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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Edgar Allan Poe's works
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Edgar Allan Poe |
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"Fire and Ice"
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Robert Frost |
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"Fog"
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Carl Sandburg |
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"The Gettysburg Address"
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Abraham Lincoln |
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| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
"I felt a funeral in my brain"
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Emily Dickinson |
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"I heard a fly buzz when I died"
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Emily Dickinson |
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"I Have a Dream"
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Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| "I'm a Fool" | Sherwood Anderson | |
"Inaugural Address"
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John F. Kennedy |
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| The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African | Olaudah Equiano | |
Leaves of Grass
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Walt Whitman |
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"The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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T.S. Eliot |
| "The Masque of the Red Death" | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| "The Minister's Black Veil" | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
"Miniver Cheevey"
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Edwin Arlington Robinson |
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Moby Dick
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Herman Melville
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave |
Frederick Douglass |
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| Of Plymouth Plantation | William Bradford | |
| "On the Pulse of Morning" | Maya Angelou | |
"Rappaccini's Daughter" |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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"The Raven"
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Edgar Allan Poe |
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| The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | |
"Richard Corey"
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Edwin Arlington Robinson |
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"The Road Not Taken"
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Robert Frost |
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The Scarlet Letter
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Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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Self-Reliance
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Share-Cropper" | Langston Hughes | |
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
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Jonathan Edwards |
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| "Soldier's Home" | Ernest Hemingway | |
| "Song for a Dark Girl" | Langston Hughes | |
Song of Myself
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Walt Whitman |
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"Speech in the Virginia Convention"
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Patrick Henry |
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"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
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Robert Frost |
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| "Strange Fruit" | Billie Holiday & Abel Meeropol | |
"Success is counted sweetest"
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Emily Dickinson |
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"The Star Spangled Banner"
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Francis Scott Key |
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"To My Dear and Loving Husband"
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Anne Bradstreet |
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Walden
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Henry David Thoreau |
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"What is an American?"
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M. G. J. de Crèvecouer |
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"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
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Walt Whitman |
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"The Yellow Wallpaper"
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman |