American Literature Archive
Last update: 08/15/03
Poetry
Short Fiction
- George Ade, To Make a Hoosier Holiday
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Sherwood Anderson, Death in the Woods.
- Willa Cather, On the Divide
- Willa Cather, Lou the Prophet
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George Washington Cable, Masked Batteries,
from The Grandissemes.
- Erskine Caldwell, Kneel to the Rising Sun
- Erskine Caldwell, Saturday Afternoon
- Erskine Caldwell, Country Full of Swedes
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Charles W. Chesnutt, The Goophered
Grapevine.
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John DosPassos, Charly Anderson, from:
The Big Money.
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T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual
Talent.
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William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily.
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William Faulkner, Spotted Horses
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William Faulkner, Was.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 1, from
The Last Tycoon.
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Ellen Glasgow, A Point in Morals
- Caroline Gordon, Old Red
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Maypole of Merrymount
- Nathanile Hawthorne, My Kinsman, Major Molieneaux
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Gray Champion
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, Roger Malvin's Burial
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Maypole of Merry Mount
- Ernest Hemingway, Big Two-Hearted River
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Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
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Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching
God.
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Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle
- Henry James, The Real Thing
- Ring Lardner, Alibi Ike
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Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, The Fight.
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Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, The Horse Swap.
- Herman Melville, Hawthorne and His Mosses
- Herman Melville, The Encantadas.
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Flannery O'Connor, The Geranium.
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Flannery O'Connor, The Artificial Nigger.
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Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find
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Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of the Amontillado
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Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia
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Edgar Allan Poe, Murders in the Rue
Morgue
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John Crowe Ransom, A Statement of Principles
from I'll Take My Stand
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John Steinbeck, Chapter Twenty-One, from:
The Grapes of Wrath.
- Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
- Mark Twain, Niagara
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Mark Twain, The Story of the Old Ram
from Roughing It
- Mark Twain, To the Person Sitting in Darkness
- Eudora Welty, The Geranium
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Eudora Welty, Place in Fiction
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Eudora Welty, A Still Moment
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Eudora Welty, A Worn Path.
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Eudora Welty, Powerhouse.
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Walt Whitman, Selection from Democratic
Vistas.
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William Carlos Williams, The Maypole at Merrymount,
from In the American Grain.
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William Carlos Williams, Voyage of the Mayflower,
from In the American Grain.
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John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Unity
- George Washington, Farewell Address
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Tom Wolfe, The Last American Hero.
- Tom Wolfe, The Lost Boy
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Richard Wright, Big Boy Leaves Home,
from Uncle Tom's Children.
- Richard Wright, How Bigger Was Born
- Richard Wright, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
Essays and Reviews
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Saul Bellow, Review of Ralph Ellison's Invisible
Man.
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Lloyd Brown, Ellison's Invisible Man.
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Lloyd Brown, "The Deep Pit" -- a review of Ralph
Ellison's Invisible Man.
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Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth.
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An excerpt from John Corry, Profile
of an American Novelist, A White View of Ralph Ellison.
- Malcolm Cowley, Farewell to the 1930s
- Malcolm Cowley, What the Revolutionary Movement Can Do For a Writer
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Frederick Douglas, My Escape from Slavery.
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Jerome Dowd, Paths of Hope for the Negro: Practical
Suggestions of a Southerner.
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T. S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent.
- Mike Gold, Towards Proletarian Art
- Irving Howe, Black Boys and Native Sons
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Irving Howe, Review of Ralph Ellison's Invisible
Man.
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W. D. Howells, Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt's Stories.
- Alaine Locke, Harlem and Enter the New Negro
- Herman Melville, Hawthorne and His Mosses
H. L. Mencken, Last Words
- H. L. Mencken, a href="mencken_2.html">The Land of the Free
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George Orwell, Politics and
the English Language.
- Philip Rahv, Proletarian Literature: A Political Autopsy
Historic Documents and Speeches
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The Bill of Rights
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William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation.
- Thomas Jefferson, The Autobiography
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Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address In
the Washington, D.C.
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Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address.
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Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address
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Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address.
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Marbury v. Madison, Supreme Court of
the United States.
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The Mayflower Compact.
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The Oath of a Freeman. [Cambridge, 1638].
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Thomas Paine, The American Crisis.
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Capt. John Smith, from The
History of Virginia.
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The United States Constitution
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George Washington, Farewell Address
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Woodrow Wilson, First Inaugural Address
- Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas
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Woodrow Wilson, Second Inaugural Address
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The Virginia Declaration of Rights