Benjamin Franklin
The author of Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography
Washington Irving
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, “Rip Van Winkle” and Tales of a Traveler, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essay(s) “The Over-soul” and “Self-Reliance”
Henry David Thoreau
Walden (or, Life In the Woods)
Edgar Allan Poe
“Tamerlane”, “The Raven”, “Annabel Lee”, and”Lenore”, “Tamerlane”, “The Balloon Hoax”, and “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass: “Song of Myself”, “I Sing the Body Electric”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Emily Dickinson
“A Bird Came down the Walk”, “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?”, “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed”, “Success is Counted Sweetest”, “Because I Could Not Stop Death”
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Huckleberry Finn
Henry James
The Turn of the Screw
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“The Yellow Wallpaper”
Robert Frost
“Mending Wall”, The Road Not Taken”, “Fire and Ice”
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Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Earnest Hemingway
Old Man and the Sea
William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury, and Absalom, Absalom!
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
Eugene O’Neil
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Tennessee Williams
“A Streetcar Named Desire”
Arthur Miller
“Death of a Salesman”
Ralph Ellison
The Invisible Man
Toni Morrison
Beloved
