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Jonathan Edwards
Personal Narrative
Benjamin Franklin
from The Autobiography
Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
from Letters from an American Farmer
Philip Freneau
The Wild Honey Suckle
The Indian Burying Ground
Washington Irving
from The Author's Account of Himself
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
James Fenimore Cooper
from The Pioneers
Ralph Waldo Emerson
from Nature
from The American Scholar
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
The Fall of the House of Usher
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life
The Tide Rises， the Tide Falls
The Slave's Dream
Henry David Thoreau
from Walden， or Life in the Woods
Nathaniel Hawthorne
from The Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville
from Moby—Dick
Walt Whitman
from Song of Myself
I Hear America Singing
I Sit and Look out
O Captain， My Captain
Emily Dickinson
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died
My Life Closed Twice before Its Close
As Imperceptibly as Grief
Mine—by the Right of the White Election
Wild Nights Wild Nights
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
Apparently with No Surprise
I Died for Beauty—but Was Scarce
Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant
I Like to See It Lap the Miles
The Brain—Is Wider than the Sky
Harriet Beecher Stowe
from Uncle Tom's Cabin
William Dean Howells
from The Rise of Silas Lapham
Mark Twain
from The Gilded Age
from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Henry James
The Art of Fiction
from The Ambassadors
Bret Harte
Tennessee's Partner
Hamlin Garland
Mrs. Ripley's Trip
Stephen Crane
from The Red Badge of Courage
Frank Norris
from The Octopus
Theodore Dreiser
from Sister Carrie
Jack London
from Martin Eden
The Law of Life