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68 Cards in this Set
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A History of New York by Deidrich Knickerbocker (satire of historians)
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(Washington) Irvin
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Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon (including Rip Van Winkle [Rip Van Winkle drinks
from dwarf's keg with dog Wolf in Catskills and sleeps for 20 years; like German Peter Klaus], Sleepy Hollow [schoolmater Ichabod Crane loves Katrina Van Tassel but is scared away by rival Brom Bones who masquerades as headless horseman]) |
(Washington) Irvin
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The Alhambra
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(Washington) Irvin
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A Tour of the Prairies
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(Washington) Irvin
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biographies of Columbus and Washington
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(Washington) Irvin
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Thanatopsis, Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood, edited New York Post
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(William Cullen) Bryant
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Leatherstocking series:
Pioneers (Templeton, NY: Natty Bumppo punished for killing deer while others kill many pigeons; Elizabeth Temple marries Edward Effingham, resolving question of Judge Temple's lands), Last of the Mohicans (Alice and Cora Munro try to join father at Fort William Henry; opposed by Hurons under Magua; Uncas, his dad Delaware Chief Chingachgook, and Hawkeye [Natty Bumppo] oppose Hurons), Prairie (old Natty Bumppo dies; Ishmael Bush squatters), Pathfinder (Pathfinder dumps Mabel Dunham when he learns she loves suspected but vindicated traitor Jasper Western; Indian heroine Dew-of-June), Deerslayer (Lake Otsego [Glimmerglass], NY: Natty Bumppo and Hurry Harry March fight Hurons; Judith Hunter fails to interest Natty) |
(James Fenimore) Cooper
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Pilot
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(James Fenimore) Cooper
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Spy
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(James Fenimore) Cooper
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Littlepage Manuscripts (Satanstoe, The Chainbearer, The Redskins; tenants of NY
patrons refuse to pay rent) |
(James Fenimore) Cooper
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Cambridge Poets
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(Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow, (James Russell) Lowell, (Oliver Wendell) Holmes, (John Greenleaf) Whittier
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Evangeline (Gabriel Lajeunesse sent to LA and Evangeline Bellefontaine to NE
when Acadians expelled from Nova Scotia; meet again in Philadelphia where she is nurse and he dies) |
(Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow
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Song of Hiawatha (Ojibway Indian Hiawatha raised by grandmother Nokomis, daughter of
the moon; revenges mom Wenonah against dad West Wind; teaches peace with whites; wife Minnehaha becomes ill and they go to Northwest Wind) |
(Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow
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Courtship of Miles Standish (Plymouth Plantation: shy military man Miles
Standish asks John Alden to woo Priscilla Mullins for him, but she marries John instead, and Miles gives blessing) |
(Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow
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translated the Divine Comedy
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(Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow
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My Lost Youth (youth in Portland ME)
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(Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow
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Village Blacksmith
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(Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow
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The Building of the Ship
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(Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow
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The Children's Hour
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(Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow
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The Wreck of the Hesperus
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(Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow
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Tales of a Wayside Inn (collection of poems in style of Canterbury Tales;
includes Paul Revere's Ride, Elizabeth, The Battle of Carmilhan, Emma and Eginhard, The Saga of King Olaf) |
(Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow
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The Biglow Papers, Harvard Commemoration Ode (in honor of
Civil War dead), Among My Books, A Fable for Critics, edited the Atlantic Monthly |
(James Russell) Lowell
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Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
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(Oliver Wendell) Holmes
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The Chambered Nautilus (sea creature enlarges its shell as it grows)
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(Oliver Wendell) Holmes
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The Deacon's Masterpiece or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay (shay fell apart,
satirizing Calvinist permanence) |
(Oliver Wendell) Holmes
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Elsie Venner A Romance of Destiny (Elsie Venner has serpentine qualities
because mom was bitten by snake; loves Bernard Langdon but she dies) |
(Oliver Wendell) Holmes
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Old Ironsides (saved USS Constitution from being scrapped)
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(Oliver Wendell) Holmes
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(sometimes included in Cambridge Poets) Snow-Bound,
Massachusetts to Virginia (anti-slavery), Barbara Frietchie, Maud Muller (judge and Maude meet; "It might have been"), Telling the Bees |
(John Greenleaf) Whittier
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Narrative of the Life of [author] an American
Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Life and Times of [author] |
(Frederick) Douglass
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Clotel (about racial intermarriage, first novel by black American)
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(William Wells) Brown
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The American Scholar, Nature, Address at Divinity College (stressed
Christ's humanity and man's divinity), Essays, Self-Reliance, Compensation (evil and good balance each other), Concord Hymn, Days, Merlin, The Over-Soul, Representative Men (Shakespeare, Plato, Goethe, Swedenborg, Napoleon, Montaigne) |
(Ralph Waldo) Emerson
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Walden or Life in the Woods (about simple life near Concord NH), Civil
Disobedience ("that government is best which governs least"), Life Without Principle |
(Henry David) Thoreau
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Democracy in America
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(Count Alexis de) Toqueville
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The Scarlet Letter (Salem: Hestor Prynne forced to wear A for committing adultery but
won't reveal dad's name; physician husband Richard Chillingsworth suspects minister Arthur Dimmesdale, who dies after confessing; daughter Pearl finally cries) |
(Nathaniel) Hawthorne
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Twice-Told Tales (tales including Howe's Masquerade, The Grey Champion, The Great
Carbuncle, and The Minister's Black Veil; title from King John) |
(Nathaniel) Hawthorne
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Mosses from an Old Manse (25 stories including Young Goodman Brown [Puritan Brown, led by
old man, observes wife Faith at a witches' Sabbath in the woods and returns to Salem a sad man], The Birthmark [Aylmer removes birthmark from perfect wife Georgiana, killing her], Rappaccini's Daughter [doctor Rappaccini nourishes daughter Beatrice on poisons so she may help with dangerous plant experiments; she dies drinking antidote from faithless suitor], and The Celestial Railroad) |
(Nathaniel) Hawthorne
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House of the Seven Gables (Salem: Colonel Pyncheon obtained land for House of Seven
Gables by accusing owner Matthew Maule of witchcraft; Maule cursed Pyncheons; Clifford Pyncheon jailed for murder of uncle actually committed by Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon; Phoebe and Holgrave, a descendant of Maule, fall in love and break the curse) |
(Nathaniel) Hawthorne
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Marble Faun (Italian count Donatello loves Miriam and kills her pursuer Antonio; artist
Hilda witnesses murder, confesses to priest, and loves Kenyon) |
(Nathaniel) Hawthorne
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Blithedale Romance (based on Brook Farm; Miles Coverdale narrates; Zenobia loves
Hollingsworth who loves Priscilla) |
(Nathaniel) Hawthorne
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Fanshawe (Fanshawe loves Ellen Langdon, ward of Harley College President Dr.
Melmoth but gives her to man she loves and dies; modeled on Bowdoin) |
(Nathaniel) Hawthorne
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The Dolliver Romance (unfinished; Dr. Dolliver makes elixir to care for granddaughter
Pansie but Colonel Dabney wants it for selfish reasons and dies) |
(Nathaniel) Hawthorne
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Tanglewood Tales
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(Nathaniel) Hawthorne
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Typee A Peep at Polynesian Life (hero and friend Toby jump ship in Marquesas Islands
and wander into valley of Typee where cannibals capture them; Fayaway nurses hero but he chooses to return to civilization) |
(Herman) Melville
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Omoo A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (crew of Julia is imprisoned on
Tahiti; hero and fried Doctor Long Ghost are released and explore the island) |
(Herman) Melville
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Mardi and a Voyage Thither (5 men sail through Mardi on King Media's boat; stop in
Vivenza [US]; Taji kills priest Aleema to rescue Yillah; Hautia seeks Taji; others include philosopher Babbalanja, poet Yoomy, and historian Mohi) |
(Herman) Melville
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Moby-Dick or the White Whale (monomaniacal Captain Ahab pursues Moby-Dick; others on the
Pequod include God-fearing Starbuck, Stubb, harpooners Queequeg, Daggoo, and Tashtego, black Pip, and fire-worshipping Parsee; only narrator Ishmael survives) |
(Herman) Melville
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Pierre or the Ambiguities (writer Pierre Glendinning leaves mom and fiance Lucy
Tartan for illegitimate sister, whom he comes to love; commits suicide in prison) |
(Herman) Melville
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White Jacket or The World in a Man-of-War (white jacket nearly drowns narrator when he falls
into water; Jack Chase appears on US Navy man-of-war; brutal floggings condemned) |
(Herman) Melville
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Billy Budd Foretopman (Claggart falsely accuses Billy; Billy kills Claggart; Captain
Vere reluctantly hangs Billy) |
(Herman) Melville
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Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
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(Herman) Melville
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Clarel A Poem and A Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (theological student Clarel loves Jew
Ruth while in Holy Land), |
(Herman) Melville
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The Confidence-Man His Masquerade (Fidele MS River boat on April Fool's Day; no plot)
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(Herman) Melville
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The Piazza Tales (short stories including The Bell Tower [artist Bannadonna rivals God],
The Lightning-Rod Man [man refuses to buy lightning-rod because he does not control or fear God], The Enchanted Isles [sketches based on Galapagos Islands], Benito Cerreno, Bartleby the Scrivener [Bartleby refuses to do his job proofreading legal documents, is imprisoned, and starves]) |
(Herman) Melville
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Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (stories including The Fall of the House of Usher
[narrator visits Roderick Usher; twin sister Madeline Usher emerges from burial vault; house and family destroyed] and Berenice) |
(Edgar Allen) Poe
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (detective C. Auguste Dupin discovers a mother and
daughter were murdered by an "Ourang-Outang") |
(Edgar Allen) Poe
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The Pit and the Pendulum (victim of Spanish Inquisition escapes prison by falling into a
pit; rats save him from knife-swinging pendulum; rescued by opposing army) |
(Edgar Allen) Poe
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The Purloined Letter (C. Auguste Dupin solves case of royal woman blackmailed by a
cabinet minister on the basis of a compromising letter) |
(Edgar Allen) Poe
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The Raven (poet is startled by raven tapping at chamber door; raven perches on bust of
Pallas Athene and answers questions about dead lover "Nevermore") |
(Edgar Allen) Poe
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The Tell-Tale Heart (murderer hides body of victim under floor but hears a beating heart
and confesses) |
(Edgar Allen) Poe
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Ulalume (narrator and his soul walk in woodland on Halloween following Venus and are
stopped by door of forgotten tomb of beloved Ulalume) |
(Edgar Allen) Poe
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Annabel Lee
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(Edgar Allen) Poe
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The Bells
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(Edgar Allen) Poe
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The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym (NE boy steals away on a whaler; drifts towards South
Pole in a canoe) |
(Edgar Allen) Poe
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Ligeia (Ligeia dies and husband marries Rowena, who dies and turns into Ligeia)
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(Edgar Allen) Poe
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The Golden Bug (Sullivan's Island SC: William Le Grand discovers cipher telling of
buried treasure, and drops beetle through one eye of a skull) |
(Edgar Allen) Poe
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The Masque of the Red Death (castle masquerade ball during Plague years: Prince Prospero)
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(Edgar Allen) Poe
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The City in the Sea
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(Edgar Allen) Poe
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass (including When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, O
Captain My Captain [both about Abraham Lincoln's death], and Song of Myself ["a uniform hieroglyphic" grass, "barbaric yawp", "look for me under your bootsoles", "origin of all poems", reading it is "good health"]), Drum-Taps, Democratic Vistas (alarmed at superficial US), Specimen Days & Collect, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, Song of the Open Road, Negro Harry |
(Walt) Whitman
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