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19th-C American

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1907

The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams

1868-69

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

1833/1836

Five Christian Indians + Eulogy on King Philip

William Apess

1833

Life of Black Hawk

Black Hawk

1853

Clotel, or The President's Daughter

William Wells Brown

1896

Yekl, A Tale of the New York Ghetto

Abraham Cahan

1901

The Marrow of Tradition

Charles Chesnutt

1899

Conjure Woman

Charles Chesnutt

1899

The Awakening

Kate Chopin

1823

Pioneers

James Fenimore Cooper

1895

The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane

1859-62

Blake, or The Huts of America

Martin Delany

various

Selected Poetry

Emily Dickinson

1845

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

1900

Sister Carrie (1st ed.)

Theodore Dreiser

1896

Lyrics of a Lowly Life

Paul Laurence Dunbar

1932

Black Elk Speaks

Black Elk

1836-1844

Selected Writings (Nature, American Scholar, etc.)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

various

Ruth Hall and Other Writings

Fanny Fern

1891

A New England Nun and Other Stories

Mary Wilkins Freeman

1845

Woman in the 19th Century

Margaret Fuller

1892

Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted

Frances Harper

1850

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

1890

A Hazard of New Fortunes

William Dean Howells

1820

The Sketch Book

Washington Irving

1861

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs

1903

The Ambassadors

Henry James

1881

The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James

1896

Country of the Pointed Firs

Sarah Orne Jewett

1867-1876

Selected Poetry

Emma Lazarus

1858-1865

Selected Speeches

Abraham Lincoln

1843-44

The Quaker City

George Lippard

1855

The Song of Hiawatha

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1851

Moby Dick

Herman Melville

various

Selected Writings (The Encantadas etc.)

Herman Melville

1899

McTeague

Frank Norris

1831-1849

Selected Works (Raven, Usher, Purloined Letter, etc.)

Edgar Allan Poe

1885

The Squatter and the Don

Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton

c.1840

Poems

Jane Johnstone Schoolcraft

1827

Hope Leslie

Catherine Maria Sedgwick

1859

The Hidden Hand

E. D. E. N. Southworth

1852

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

1849/1854

Walden + Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

1885

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

1829

David Walker's Appeal

David Walker

1891

Leaves of Grass (selected poems, 1891 ed.)

Walt Whitman

1856

Our Nig

Harriet Wilson

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