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Classic Reader: The Ear in the Wall by Arthur B. Reeve
This is the complete text of the detective novel The Ear in the Wall by Arthur B. Reeve.
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Classic Reader: The Ears of Twenty Americans by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
This is the complete text of the novel The Ears of Twenty Americans by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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Classic Reader: The Earth Trembled by Edward Payson Roe
This is the complete text of the Christian novel The Earth Trembled by Edward Payson Roe.
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Washington State University: Timeline of American Literature and Events: 1820s
A timeline of political and social events and American literature. Part of a larger site. Hyperlinks to information about individual authors.
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Washington State University: Literary Movements: Local Color Fiction, 1865 1895
This site from Washington State University provides a good look at the regionalism and local color of American literature from 1865-1895. A definition is included, practitioners, characteristics, and techniques. There are many links to...
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Classic Reader: The Europeans: A Sketch by Henry James
This is the full text of the novel The Europeans: A Sketch by Henry James, a comedy contrasting the behavior and attitudes of two visitors from Europe with those of their relatives living in the 'new' world of New England.
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Classic Reader: The Efficiency Expert by Edgar Rice Burroughs
This is the full text of the novel The Efficiency Expert by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The story follows the adventures of Jimmy Torrance as he attempts to make a career for himself in 1921 Chicago.
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Classic Reader: Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
This is the full text of the novel Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott. It is the story of Rose Campbell, a lonely and sickly girl who has been recently orphaned and must now reside with her maiden great aunts, the matriarchs of her...
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Classic Reader: A Face Illumined by Edward Payson Roe
This is the full text of the novel A Face Illumined by Edward Payson Roe, an unusual romance.
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Classic Reader: The Forest by Stewart Edward White
This is the full text of the novel The Forest by Stewart Edward White. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Classic Reader: Flying U Ranch by b.m. Bower
This is the full text of the novel Flying U Ranch by B.M. Bower, a famous western author.
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Classic Reader: The Flying U's Last Stand by b.m. Bower
This is the full text of the novel The Flying U's Last Stand by B.M. Bower, a famous western author.
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Classic Reader: The Exploits of Elaine by Arthur B. Reeve
This is the full text of the novel The Exploits of Elaine by Arthur B. Reeve. The scientific detective known as the "American Sherlock Holmes" pursues a ruthless arch villain in this high-stakes suspense novel.
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Classic Reader: The Eyes of the World by Harold Bell Wright
This is the full text of the novel The Eyes of the World by Harold Bell Wright, an early 20th century western.
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Classic Reader: The Filigree Ball by Anna Katharine Green
This is the full text of the novel The Filigree Ball: Being a Full and True Account of the Solution of the Mystery Concerning the Jeffrey-Moore Affair (1903) by Anna Katarine Green, known as "the mother of the detective novel".
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Classic Reader: The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
This is the full text of the novel The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, a science fantasy novel; the second of his Barsoom series.
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Classic Reader: Going Some by Rex Ellingwood Beach
This is the full text of the western novel Going Some by Rex Ellingwood Beach. Four cowboys inclined their bodies over the barbed-wire fence which marked the dividing-line between the Centipede Ranch and their own, staring mournfully...
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Classic Reader: The Free Rangers by Joseph A. Altsheler
This is the full text of the novel The Free Rangers by Joseph A. Altsheler, the story of five young "trailers" and "forest rangers," helping the settlers against the Indians and the Spaniards.
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Classic Reader: The Golden Canyon by G. A. Henty
This is the full text of the novel The Golden Canyon by G. A. Henty, a historical novel set in the American Wild West.
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Classic Reader: The Game by Jack London
This is the full text of the novel The Game by Jack London; it is about a twenty-year-old boxer Joe, who meets his death in the ring.
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Classic Reader: Guy Garrick by Arthur B. Reeve
This is the full text of the novel Guy Garrick by Arthur B. Reeve, a detective story. Guy Garrick, a detective who has made a scientific study of crime, has been the hero of a number of earlier short stories. In the present novel he is...
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Classic Reader: The Guardian Angel by Oliver Wendell Holmes
This is the full text of the novel The Guardian Angel by Oliver Wendell Holmes; it explores mental health and repressed memory, and Holmes uses the concept of the unconscious mind throughout his works.
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Classic Reader: Gullible's Travels, Etc. By Ring Lardner
This is the full text of the short story collection Gullible's Travels, Etc. by Ring Lardner, an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about sports, marriage, and the theater.
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Classic Reader: The Half Back by Ralph Henry Barbour
This is the full text of the novel The Half-Back by Ralph Henry Barbour, a story of school, football, and golf.