American Literature: A new world finds its voice

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

In this collection

• Going to Heaven!
• The Butterfly's Day
• Afraid? of whom am I Afraid?
• Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy
• A Modest Lot, a Fame Petite
• Some, too Fragile for Winter Winds
• First Interview with Artemus Ward
• The Danger of Lying in Bed
• Fire
• A Mysterious Visit
• Our Share of Night to Bear
• Similitude
• Dirge (Poems from Mardi)
• The Duc De L'Omelette
• The Heart Asks Pleasure First
• To Hang our Head Ostensibly
• Good Night! which Put the Candle out?
• The Innocents Abroad, Volume 5
• Apocalypse
• The Chariot
• Water is Taught by Thirst
• The Business Man
• Hawthorne and his Mosses
• To You
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