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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

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American; Naturalist

THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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American; Modern Writer

THE GREAT GATSBY

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John Steinbeck

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American; Modern Writer

THE GRAPES OF WRATH; OF MICE AND MEN

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Richard Wright

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American; Modern Writer

BLACK BOY

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Robert Frost

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American; Modern Writer

“The Road Not Taken”; “Fire & Ice”

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Nikki Giovanni

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American; Modern Writer

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E.E. Cummings

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American; Modern Writer

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Katherine Porter

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American; Modern Writer

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Flannery O’Connor

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American; Modern Writer

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John Updike

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American; Modern Writer

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Alice Walker

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American; Modern Writer

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Sinclair Lewis

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American; Modern Writer

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Sandra Cisneros

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American; Modern Writer

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Amy Tan

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American; Modern Writer

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Eudora Welty

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American; Modern Writer

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Tennessee Williams

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American; Modern Writer

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August Wilson

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American; Modern Writer

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Eugene O’Neil

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American; Modern Writer

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Malcolm X

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American; Modern Writer

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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American; Modern Writer

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Ernest Hemingway

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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

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American; Harlem Renaissance Writer

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Countee Cullen

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American; Harlem Renaissance Writer

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Zora Neal Hurston

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American; Harlem Renaissance Writer

THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD

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Art Spiegleman

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American; Postmodern Writer

MAUS

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Joseph Heller

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American; Postmodern Writer

CATCH-22

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Don DiLillo

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American; Postmodern Writer

WHITE NOISE

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Chaucer

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British; Medieval Writer

THE CANTERBURY TALES

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Sir Thomas Mallory

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British; Medieval Writer

LE MORTE D’ARTHUR; EVERYMAN

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Christopher Marlow

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British; Renaissance Writer

DR. FAUSTUS

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Edmund Spenser

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British; Renaissance Writer

THE FARIE QUEEN

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William Shakespeare

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British; Renaissance Writer

various plays

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John Donne

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British; Elizabethan Age Writer

“Death Be Not Proud”

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Ben Johnson

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British; Elizabethan Age Writer

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John Milton

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British; Elizabethan Age Writer

PARADISE LOST

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Samuel Pepys

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British; Restoration Period Writer

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Alexander Pope

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British; Restoration Period Writer

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Samuel Johnson

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British; Restoration Period Writer

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Jonathan Swift

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British; Restoration Period Writer

GULLIVER’S TRAVELS

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Francis Bacon

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British; Enlightenment Writer

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John Locke

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British; Enlightenment Writer

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Jean Jacques Rosseau

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British; Enlightenment Writer

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John Donne

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British; Metaphysical Poet

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Andrew Marvell

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British; Metaphysical Poet

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George Herbert

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British; Metaphysical Poet

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William Wordsworth

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British; Romantic Writer

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John Keats

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British; Romantic Writer

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Lord Byron

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British; Romantic Writer

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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British; Romantic Writer

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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British; Romantic Writer

“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

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Mary Shelley

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British; Romantic Writer

FRANKENSTEIN

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Alfred Tennyson

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British; Victorian Writer

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Robert Browning

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British; Victorian Writer

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Elizabeth Browning

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British; Victorian Writer

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Rudyard Kipling

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British; Victorian Writer

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Charles Dickens

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British; Victorian Writer

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

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Thomas Hardy

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British; Victorian Writer

RETURN OF THE NATIVE

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Joseph Conrad

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British; Modern Era Writer

LORD JIM; THE HEART OF DARKNESS

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D.H. Lawrence

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British; Modern Era Writer

WOMEN IN LOVE

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George Orwell

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British; Modern Era Writer

SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT

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Bernard Shaw

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British; Modern Era Writer

PYGMALION

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Virginia Woolf

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British; Modern Era Writer

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Katherine Masfield

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British; Modern Era Writer

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Doris Lessing

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British; Modern Era Writer

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William Yeats

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British; Modern Era Writer

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T.S. Eliot

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British; Modern Era Writer

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Dylan Thomas

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British; Modern Era Writer

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