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William Bradford

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American; Colonial Period Writer

OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION

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Anne Bradstreet

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American; Colonial Period Writer

“Contemplations”; “The Burning of Our House”; “The Tenth Muse”

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Olaudah Equiano

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American; Colonial Period Writer

THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO

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Jonathan Edwards

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American; Colonial Period Writer

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

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Thomas Paine

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American; Age of Revolution Writer

COMMON SENSE and other essays

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Thomas Jefferson

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American; Age of Revolution Writer

“A Summary View of the Rights of British America”; THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

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Benjamin Franklin

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American; Age of Revolution Writer

POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK; THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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William Cullen Bryant

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American; Romantic Writer

“The Prairies”; “Thanatopsis”; “To a Waterfowl”

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James Fennimore Cooper

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American; Romantic Writer

THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS

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Sojourner Truth

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American; Romantic Writer

“Ain’t I a Woman”

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Washington Irving

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American; Romantic Writer

“The Devil and Tom Walker”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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American; Transcendental Writer

SELF-RELIANCE; THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR

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Henry David Thoreau

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American; Transcendental Writer

WALDEN; CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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American; Anti-Transcendental Writer

THE SCARLET LETTER

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Herman Melville

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American; Anti-Transcendental Writer

MOBY DICK

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Emily Dickinson

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American; New England (Transitional) Writer

“Because I could not stop for death”

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Walt Whitman

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American; New England (Transitional) Writer

“Song of Myself”; “Oh Captain! My Captain!”

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William Dean Howells

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American; Realistic Period Writer

THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM; “Christmas Every Day”

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Mary Chestnut

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American; Civil War Writers

DAIRY OF MARY CHESTNUT

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Abraham Lincoln

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American; Civil War Writers

“The Gettysburg Address”

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Frederick Douglass

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American; Civil War Writers

MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM

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Willa Cather

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American; Regionalist Writer

MY ANTONIA

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William Faulkner

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American; Regionalist Writer

ABSOLOM! ABSOLOM!

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Jack London

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American; Naturalist

THE CALL OF THE WILD

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Stephen Crane
American; Naturalist THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
American; Modern Writer THE GREAT GATSBY
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John Steinbeck
American; Modern Writer THE GRAPES OF WRATH; OF MICE AND MEN
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Richard Wright
American; Modern Writer BLACK BOY
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Robert Frost
American; Modern Writer "The Road Not Taken"; "Fire & Ice"
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Nikki Giovanni
American; Modern Writer
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E.E. Cummings
American; Modern Writer
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Katherine Porter
American; Modern Writer
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Flannery O'Connor
American; Modern Writer
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John Updike
American; Modern Writer
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Alice Walker
American; Modern Writer
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Sinclair Lewis
American; Modern Writer
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Sandra Cisneros
American; Modern Writer
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Amy Tan
American; Modern Writer
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Eudora Welty
American; Modern Writer
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Tennessee Williams
American; Modern Writer
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August Wilson
American; Modern Writer
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Eugene O'Neil
American; Modern Writer
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Malcolm X
American; Modern Writer
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
American; Modern Writer
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Ernest Hemingway
American; Lost Generation Writer THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA; A FAREWELL TO ARMS; FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
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Langston Hughs
American; Harlem Renaissance Writer
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Countee Cullen
American; Harlem Renaissance Writer
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Zora Neal Hurston
American; Harlem Renaissance Writer THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD
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Art Spiegleman
American; Postmodern Writer MAUS
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Joseph Heller
American; Postmodern Writer CATCH-22
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Don DiLillo
American; Postmodern Writer WHITE NOISE
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Chaucer
British; Medieval Writer THE CANTERBURY TALES
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Sir Thomas Mallory
British; Medieval Writer LE MORTE D'ARTHUR; EVERYMAN
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Christopher Marlow
British; Renaissance Writer DR. FAUSTUS
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Edmund Spenser
British; Renaissance Writer THE FARIE QUEEN
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William Shakespeare
British; Renaissance Writer various plays
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John Donne
British; Elizabethan Age Writer "Death Be Not Proud"
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Ben Johnson
British; Elizabethan Age Writer
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John Milton
British; Elizabethan Age Writer PARADISE LOST
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Samuel Pepys
British; Restoration Period Writer
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Alexander Pope
British; Restoration Period Writer
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Samuel Johnson
British; Restoration Period Writer
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Jonathan Swift
British; Restoration Period Writer GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
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Francis Bacon
British; Enlightenment Writer
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John Locke
British; Enlightenment Writer
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Jean Jacques Rosseau
British; Enlightenment Writer
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John Donne
British; Metaphysical Poet
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Andrew Marvell
British; Metaphysical Poet
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George Herbert
British; Metaphysical Poet
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William Wordsworth
British; Romantic Writer
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John Keats
British; Romantic Writer
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Lord Byron
British; Romantic Writer
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
British; Romantic Writer
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British; Romantic Writer "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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Mary Shelley
British; Romantic Writer FRANKENSTEIN
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Alfred Tennyson
British; Victorian Writer
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Robert Browning
British; Victorian Writer
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Elizabeth Browning
British; Victorian Writer
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Rudyard Kipling
British; Victorian Writer
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Charles Dickens
British; Victorian Writer A TALE OF TWO CITIES
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Thomas Hardy
British; Victorian Writer RETURN OF THE NATIVE
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Joseph Conrad
British; Modern Era Writer LORD JIM; THE HEART OF DARKNESS
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D.H. Lawrence
British; Modern Era Writer WOMEN IN LOVE
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George Orwell
British; Modern Era Writer SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT
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Bernard Shaw
British; Modern Era Writer PYGMALION
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Virginia Woolf
British; Modern Era Writer
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Katherine Masfield
British; Modern Era Writer
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Doris Lessing
British; Modern Era Writer
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William Yeats
British; Modern Era Writer
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T.S. Eliot
British; Modern Era Writer
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Dylan Thomas
British; Modern Era Writer

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