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“Ain’t I a Woman?”
“Saratoga” by Henry James
“The American Scholar”
“The Wanderings of Ulysses”
Alcott: from Little Women
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
Burnett: from The Secret Garden
from "The Turn of the Screw"
from “Resistance to Civil Government”
from Ben-Hur
from Clotel; or, the President’s Daughter
from Connecticut Yankee
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
from McTeague
from Moby Dick
from My Ántonia
from Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
from Rights of Man
from Sister Carrie
from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
from The House of Mirth
from The Red Badge of Courage
from The Rise of Silas Lapham
from The Scarlet Letter
from The Sound and the Fury
from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
from Uncle Tom’s Cabin: The Martyr
from Walden
influence of Gone With The Wind
Irving: from "Rip Van Winkle"
reception of The Great Gatsby
The Awakening
The Brahmin Caste of New England
The Country of the Pointed Firs
The Dime Novel Western
The Gift of the Magi
The Grapes of Wrath and Artistic Protest
The Hippies by Hunter S. Thompson
The Rise of the Modern Paperback
The Runaway Slave in “Song of Myself”
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
The Way to Wealth
Why I Live at the P.O.
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Connecticut Yankee
This excerpt from Connecticut Yankee clearly demonstrates the clever satire in Twain's 1889 novel about an American who travels through time to the...
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