benjamin franklin(1706-1790).

from autobiography

from poor richard's almanack

thomas paine(1737-1809)

downfall of despotism

philip freneau(1752-1832)

to the memory of the brave americans

the wild honey suckle

washington irving(1783-1859)

the legend of sleepy hollow

james fenimore cooper(1789-1851)

the last of the mohicans-chapter xii

william cullen bryant(1794-1878)

to a waterfowl

edgar allan poe(1809-1849)

to helen

alone

william wilson

from "the philosophy of composition"

ralph waldo emerson(1803-1882)

.from nature

the rhodora

nathaniel hawthorne(1804-1864)

young goodman brown

the scarlet letter-chapter ii,chpater xix

henry david thoreau(1817-1862)

form"resistance to civil government"

walden-chapter ii

walt whitman(1819-1892)

form "song of myself"

i hear america singing

when lilacs last in the dooryard blloom'd

form"democratic vistas"

herman melville(1819-1891)

moby dick-chapter cxxxv

henry wadsworth longfellow(1807-1882)

an april day

footsteps of angels

hiawathw-v.hiawatha's fasting

john greenleaf whittier(1807-1892)

ichabod

from "snow-bound"

harriet beecher stowe (1811--1896)

uncle tom's cabin -- chapter xxxiii

frederick doughss (1817--1895)

my bondage and my freedom -- chapter x

emily dickinson (1850--1886)

67, 241, 449, 1129, 1732

mark twain (1835--1910)

the adventures of huckleberry finn n chapter xv,

chapter xix

how to tell a story,

from "to the person sitting in darkness"

bret harte (1836--1902)

the luck of roaring camp ..

william dean howells (1837--1920)

from "novel-writing and novel-reading"

henry adams (1838--1918)

the education of henry adams -- chapter iv

william james (1842--1910)

pragmatism -- lecture ii

henry james (1843--1916)

from "the art of fiction"

the real thing

ambrose bierce (1842--1914)

the applicant

edward bellamy (1850--1898)

looking backward -- chapter xxii

edwin charles markham (1852--1940)

the man with the hoe

charles waddell chesnutt (1858--1932)

the sheriff's children

hamlin garland (1860--1940)

the return of a private

o. henry (1862--1910)

the man higher up

edith wharton (1862--1937)

the age of innocence -- chapter xviii

george santayana (1863--1952)

a minuet on reaching the age of fifty

from the realms of being

william e. b. dubois (1868--1963)

of mr. booker t. washington and others

edgar lee masters (1868--1950)

lucinda matlock

edwin arlington robinson (1869--1935)

richard cory

miniver cheevy

frank norris (1870--1902)

a deal in wheat

stephen crane (1871--1900)

the red badge of courage -- chapter xxiv

theodore dreiser (1871--1945)

nigger jeff

the titan -- chapter xi

paul laurence dunbar (1872--1906)

we wear the mask

jack london (1876-- 1916)

what life means to me

martin eden- chapter xvii

upton sinclair (1878--1968)

the jungle -- chapter v ...