American Literature

The American canon — Twain and Whitman, Melville and Hawthorne, Dickinson and Poe — the literature of a country inventing itself.

A new world finds its voice

In this collection

• The Oriole's Secret
• 1861
• A Tramp Abroad, Volume 2
• The Christmas Banquet
• The Mushroom
• Consular Experiences
• Off Cape Colonna (Poems from Timoleon)
• Wit Inspirations of the "Two-Year-Olds"
• The Outlet
• The Bee
• Trying to Forget
• Huckleberry Finn, Part 2
• English as she is Taught
• At Least to Pray is Left, is Left
• Exclusion
• Prayer
• Aurora-Borealis. Commemorative of the Dissolution of Armies at the Peace. (May, 1865.)
• Eve's Diary, Part 3
• Escape
• Chiefly about War Matters
• The Golden Arm
• The Rat
• My Watch. an Instructive Little Tale
• A Bell's Biography
• The Master
• The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract
• A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
• I Breathed Enough to Learn the Trick
• I Shall Know why, when Time is over
• The Battle for the Mississipppi. (April, 1862.)
• Concerning Tobacco
• Metzengerstein
• A Thought Went up my Mind Today
• A Sickness of this World it most Occasions
• Sights from a Steeple
• The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
• Recollections of a Gifted Woman
• Formerly a Slave
• The Released Rebel Prisoner. 1865 (Poems from Battle Pieces)
• The Victor of Antietam. (1862.)
• A Man under Enchantment
• The Cruelty of Good People
• The Modern Writer
• The Aristocrats
• Transplanted
• A Journey in Search of Christmas
• Meeting a Rebel Woman at Nashville
• Memorial Day
• The American Republic -- its Glories and its Dangers
• The Surrender of Vicksburg
• John Brent

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