Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Daniel and Little Dan'l" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
This is the complete text of the short story "Daniel and Little Dan'l" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "A Dark Brown Dog" by Stephen Crane
This is the complete text of the short story "A Dark Brown Dog" by Stephen Crane.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey
This is the complete text of the western novel The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Ray Bradbury
Explore the world of Ray Bradbury when you visit this educational resource. Each work is hyperlinked to study guide questions.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "A Cosmopolite in a Cafe" by O. Henry
This is the complete text of the short story "A Cosmopolite in a Cafe" by O. Henry.
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Classic Reader: The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey
This is the complete text of the American western novel The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey
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Classic Reader: The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs
This is the complete text of the novel The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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Classic Reader: Love Under Fire by Randall Parrish
This is the complete text of the novel Love Under Fire by Randall Parrish.
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Classic Reader: Lovey Mary by Alice Hegan Rice
This is the complete text of the novel Lovey Mary by Alice Hegan Rice.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages a Literary Survey
A series of 16 Instructional Units on American Literature with texts, videos, instructor guides, and more. Topics include: Native Voices, Exploring Borderlands, Utopian Promise, Spirit of Nationalism, Masculine Heroes, Gothic...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literary Time Periods Chart (Pdf)
This chart features the six American Literary Time Periods: Puritan Times (to 1750), Rationalism/Age of Enlightenment (1750-1850), Romanticism (1800-1850), Realism (1850-1900), Modernism (1900-1950), and Contemporary/Postmodernism...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Minister's Charge by William D. Howells
This is the complete text of the novel "The Minister's Charge" by William D. Howells.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: American Literature: Reader Response Criticism
This lesson focuses on reader-response literary criticism including the purpose of reader response, the structure of a reader-response essay, how to criticize with examples, and an example of a reader-response essay using "The Secret...
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Early American and Colonial Period to 1776
Background information about the literary traditions of the pre-Colonial and Colonial period. Includes information about Native American oral traditions and Native American cultures. Follow the links to the Early American era and to...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Coup De Grace" by Ambrose Bierce
This is the complete text of the short story "The Coup De Grace" by Ambrose Bierce.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Mark Twain
America's Story covers the adventures of Mark Twain (1835-1910) (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Find out how Samuel Clemens chose his pen name. Learn about the development of the "Great American Novel."
Other
California Newsreel Teacher's Guide: Black Boy
Have you ever read any of Richard Wright's work? This site offers an extensive crosscurricular Teacher's Guide that includes questions for research and writing.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Later National Literature: P2
This encyclopedia, "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature" provided by Bartleby.com, includes information of regionalism in poetry located in section X 'Later Poets'. Check out 1.Poets of East and West 5. The Middle...
University of Virginia
University of Virginia Library: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
This often-banned book, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is discussed on this comprehensive essay which is part of a larger collection, Mark Twain in his Times. Read contemporary reviews, find out about how the book was advertised when...
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Mark Twain in His Times: Roughing It
A complete look at Mark Twain's second major work, "Roughing It." You'll find the text, illustrations, contemporary reviews, publicity, and Mark Twain's schedule on his lecture circuit.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Countee Cullen
This quality site from the University of Illinois offers critical looks at Cullen's poetry as well as an excellent account of the author's life and the influences on his writing.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Memorandum During the War
The Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia presents links to the online text for Walt Whitman's prose writing, "Memorandum During the War" in which Whitman records his thoughts and experiences visiting the wounded in the...
Other
Iola Leroy, Or, Shadows Uplifted
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's novel is offered by the Schomburg African American Women Writers project in machine-readable form.
University of Virginia
Mark Twain in His Times: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
As part of a larger site, Mark Twain in his Times, this site on "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" offers the text, selected illustrations, advertisements for the book when first published, contemporary reviews, and much more information...