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169 Cards in this Set
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John Smith
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(1) The General History of VA, New England, and the Summer Isles, (2) The Third Book. From Ch.2. What Happened till the First Supply, (3) The Fourth Book. [Smith's Farewell to VA], (4) A Description of New England, (5)New England Trial's
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William Bradford
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Of Plymouth Plantation
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John Winthrop
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(1) A Model of Christian Charity, (2) The Journal of John Winthrop
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Anne Bradstreet
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(1) The Prologue, (2) The Author to Her Book. (3) Before the Birth of One of Her Children, (4) To My Dear and Loving Husband, (5) In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, (6) Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, (7) To My Dear Children
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Mary Rowlandson
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A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary
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Edward Taylor
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(1) Preparatory Meditations [includes Huswifery], (2) Meditation 38
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Cotton Mather
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Magnalia Christi Americana`
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Jonathan Edwards
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
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Benjamin Franklin
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(1) The Way to Wealth, (2) Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America, (3) The Autobiography
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Samson Occom
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A Short Narrative of My Life
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J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
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Letters from an American Farmer
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Thomas Paine
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(1) Common Sense, (2) The Crisis
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Thomas Jefferson
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(1) The Autobiography of Thomas JEfferson, (2) The Declaration of Independence, (3) Notes on the State of VA, (4) Letter to John Adams
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Olaudah Equiano
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Dustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself
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Philip Freneau
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(1) On the Emigration to America & Peopling the Western Country, (2) On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man, (3) On the Religion of Nature
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Phillis Wheatley
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(1) On Being Brought from Africa to America, (2)To the University of Cambridge, in New England, (3) To His Excellency General Washington
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Washington Irving
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(1) Rip Van Winkle, (2) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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James Fenimore Cooper
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The Pioneers
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William Cullen Bryant
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(1) Thanatopsis, (2) To a Waterfowl, (3) The Prairies
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William Apess
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An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(1) The Divinity School Address. (2) Self-Reliance, (3) Experience
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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(1) My Kinsman, Major Molineaux, (2) Roger Malvin's Burial, (3) Young Goodman Brown, (4) The May-Pole of Merry Mount, (5) The Minister's Black Veil, (6) The Birth-Mark, (7) Rappaccini's Daughter
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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(1) A Psalm of Life, (2) The Slave's Dream, (3) The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
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John Greenleaf Whittier
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(1) Ichabod!, (2) Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
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Edgar Allan Poe
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(1) The Raven, (2) Annabel Lee, (3) Ligeia, (4) The Fall of the House of Usher, (5) The Tell-Tale Heart, (6) The Purloined Letter, (7) The Cask of Amontillado
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Abraham Lincoln
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(1) Adress Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery of Gettysburg, November 19, 1863. (2) Second Inaugural Adress, March 4, 1865
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet Jacobs
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Henry David Thoreau
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(1) Resistance to Civil Government, (2) Walden
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Frederick Douglass
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Walt Whitman
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(1) Song of Myself, (2) When I Heard the LEarn'd Astronomer, (3) Beat! Beat! Drums!
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Herman Melville
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(1) Bartleby, the Scrivener, (2) Benito Cereno
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Emily Dickinson
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(1) "Faith" is a fine invention, (2) After great pain, a formal feeling comes, (3) I died for Beauty--but was scarce
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Rebecca Harding Davis
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Life in the Iron-Mills
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Emma Lazarus
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(1) In the Jewish Cemetery at Newport, (2) The New Colossus
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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)
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(1) The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, (2) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, (3) Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
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W.D. Howells
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Editha
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Abrose Bierce
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Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
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Bret Harte
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
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Henry James
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Daisy Miller: A Study
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Sarah Orne Jewett
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A White Heron
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Kate Chopin
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(1) At the 'Cadian Ball, (2) The Storm, (3) Desiree's Baby
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
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A New England Nun
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Booker T. Washington
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Up from Slavery
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Charles W. Chesnutt
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(1) The Goophered Grapevine, (2) The Wife of His Youth
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Abraham Cahan
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A Sweat-Shop Romance
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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The Yellow Wall-paper
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Edith Wharton
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Souls Belated
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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The Souls of Black Folk
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Stephen Crane
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(1) The Open Boat, (2) The Blue Hotel, (3) An Episode of War
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Jack London
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To Build a Fire
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
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(1) Richard Cory, (2) Miniver Cheevy, (3) Mr. Flood's Party
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Willa Cather
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(1) Neighbour Rosicky, (3) The Sculptor's Funeral
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Robert Frost
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(1) Mending Wall, (2) The Death of the Hired Man, (3) After Apple-Picking, (4) The Road Not Taken, (5) Fire and Ice, (6) Nothing Gorld can Stay, (7) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, (8) Desert Places, (9) Design, (10) The Gift Outright
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Sherwood Anderson
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Winesburg, Ohio
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Carl Sandburg
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(1) Chicago, (2) Fog, (3) Grass
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T.S. Eliot
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(1) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, (2) Journey of the Magi
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Eugene O'Neill
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Long Day's Journey into Night
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Claude Mckay
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(1) The Harlem Dancer, (2) The Lynching, (3) If We Must Die
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Katherine Anne Porter
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Flowering Judas
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Zora Neale Hurston
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(1) How It Feels to Be Colored Me, (2) The Gilded Six-Bits
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E.E. Cummings
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(1) In-just, (2) Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond, (3) Anyone lived in a pretty how town
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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(1) Winter Dreams, (2) Babylon Revisited
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William Fauklner
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(1) A Rose for Emily, (2) That Evening Sun, (3) Barn Burning
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Ernest Hemingway
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
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Langston Hughes
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(1) The Negro Speaks of Rivers, (2) Mother to Son, (3) Song for a Dark Girl
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John Steinbeck
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Richard Wright
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The Man Who Was Almost a Man
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Eudora Welty
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Petrified Man
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Tennessee Williams
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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John Cheever
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The Swimmer
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Elizabeth Bishop
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One Art
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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The mother
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Adriennes Rich
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Storm Warnings
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Toni Morrison
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Recitatif
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James Baldwin
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Going to Meet the Man
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Flannery O-Connor
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Good Country People
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John Updike
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Separating
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Raymond Carver
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Cathedral
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Maxine Hong Kingston
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No Name Woman
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Alice Walker
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Everday Use
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Louise Erdrich
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Fleur
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Sandra Cisneros
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My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn
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West VA; before Civil War
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Life in the Iron Mills (Rebecca Harding Davis)
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Missouri; early-mid 19th Century
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
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N.Y.C.; beginning of Spanish-American war (1898)
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Editha (W.D. Howells)
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U.S. during Philippine-American War (1899-1902)
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The War Prayer (Mark Twain)
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Vevy, Switzerland and Rome, Italy; late 19th century
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Daisy Miller: A Study (Henry James)
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Coastal twon in Maine; late 1800s-early 1900s
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The White Heron (Sarah Orne Jewett)
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Cajun town in Creole, Louisiana (Assumption Parish, Louisiana); late 1800s
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At the 'Cadian Ball (Kate Chopin)
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Walt Whitman
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(1) Song of Myself, (2) When I Heard the LEarn'd Astronomer, (3) Beat! Beat! Drums!
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Herman Melville
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(1) Bartleby, the Scrivener, (2) Benito Cereno
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Emily Dickinson
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(1) "Faith" is a fine invention, (2) After great pain, a formal feeling comes, (3) I died for Beauty--but was scarce
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Rebecca Harding Davis
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Life in the Iron-Mills
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Emma Lazarus
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(1) In the Jewish Cemetery at Newport, (2) The New Colossus
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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)
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(1) The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, (2) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, (3) Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
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W.D. Howells
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Editha
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Abrose Bierce
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Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
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Bret Harte
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
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Henry James
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Daisy Miller: A Study
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Sarah Orne Jewett
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A White Heron
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Kate Chopin
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(1) At the 'Cadian Ball, (2) The Storm, (3) Desiree's Baby
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
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A New England Nun
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Booker T. Washington
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Up from Slavery
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Charles W. Chesnutt
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(1) The Goophered Grapevine, (2) The Wife of His Youth
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New England, 1800s
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New England Nun (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)
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Late 1800s-early 1900s
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The Yellow Wall-Paper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
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Northern Alabama; Civil War
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bierce)
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Sierra Mtns.; winter of 1850
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat (Bret Harte)
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Central North Carolina; after Civil War
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The Goophered Grapevine (Charles W. Chestnut)
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Groveland; 25 yrs. after Civil War
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The Wife of My Youth (Charles W. Chestnut)
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Essex St., Manhattan, NYC; late 19th century-early 20th century
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A Sweat Shop Romance (Abraham Cahan)
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Italy, near Monte Rosa, Hotel Bellosguardo; late 19th cenutry
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Souls Belated (Edith Warton)
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Off Florida Coast (Daytona Beach); 1897
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The Open Boat (Stephen Crane)
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Palace Hotel, Fort Romper, Nebraska; late 1800s
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The Blue Hotel (Stephen Crane)
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Yukon arctice; 1900s
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To Build a Fire (Jack London)
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Small town in Nebraska near Omaha; early 1900s
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Neighbour Rosicky (Willa Cather)
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Kansas town; 1905
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The Sculptor's Funeral (Willa Cather)
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Winesburg, Ohio; early 1900s
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Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson)
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New London, Connecticut; 1912
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Long Day's Journey into Night (Eugene O'Neill)
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Morelia, Mexico; early 1900s
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Flowering Judas (Katherine Anne Porter)
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Eatonville, Florida; early 1900s
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The Gilded Six-Bits (Zora Neale Hurston)
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Dillard, Lake Erminie, Minnesota; earl-mid 1900s
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Winter Dreams (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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Paris; 1929
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Babylon Revisited (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi; after Civil War Reconstruction
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A Rose for Emily (William Faulkner)
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Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County; 1930s
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That Evening sun (William Faulkner)
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Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County; 30 yrs. after Civil War
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Barn Burning (William Faulkner)
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Highway 66, Middle U.S.; 1960s
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The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
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South; 1900s
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The Man Who Was Almost A Man (Richard Wright)
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1938
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Petrified Man (Eudora Welty)
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New Orleans (Elysian Fields);1950s
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A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
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Bullet Park, Hackensack, N.J.; 1960s
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The Swimmer (John Cheever)
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Greenwood; 1940s
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Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
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Southern town; late 1800s-early 1900s
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Going to Meet the Man (James Baldwin)
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Small southern town; 1900s
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Good Country People (Flannery O'Conner)
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New York; 1940s
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Recitatif (Toni Morrison)
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Greenwich Village, NYC; 1970s
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Separating (John Updike)
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Camp Crowder, Missouri; 1945
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Defender of the Faith (Phillip Roth)
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Rebecca Harding Davis
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Wrote 1st piece of American realistic lit.; anticipated Realism period; wrote about problems of her own time
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Emma Lazarus
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1st Jew-American writer; wrote inscription on Statue of Liberty
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W.D. Howells
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Anti-war lit., helped create realistic movement
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Mark Twain
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Anti-war lit. on Philippine-American War
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Henry James
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Wrote about wealthy Americans
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Sarah Orne Jewett
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Regionalist; feminist
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Kate Chopin
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Feminist; local colorist on Creoles of Louisiana
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Mary. W. Wilkins Freeman
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Feminist
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Charlotte PErkins Gilman
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Feminist
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Ambrose Bierce
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Journalist; died while covering story of Mexican Independence
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Bret Harte
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Local colorist on the west
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Charles W. Chestnut
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White writer attempting t oshow black peopls's revolt against whites
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Abraham Cahan
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2nd Jew-American writer
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Black rights activist
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Edith Warton
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Wrote about wealthy Americans
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Stephen Crane
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1st writer to write about his non-belief of God; indifference of nature; naturalistic
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Jack London
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Similar to Crane; didn't believe in God; everything that happens is random; naturalistic
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Willa Cather
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Elegaic writer
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
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Pessimistic
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Eugene 0'Neill
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Wrote plays
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Claude McKay
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1st writer to start Harlem Renaissance
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Zora Neal Hurston
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Harlem Renaissance
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Wrote plays
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William Faulkner
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Created Yoknapatawpha County; regionalist
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Langston Hughes
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Harlem Renaissance
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Eudora Welty
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Regionalist
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Tennessee Williams
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Playwright
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John Cheever
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Wrotes about wealthy north of NYC; regionalist
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James Baldwin
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Harlem Renaissance
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Toni Morrison
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Last US writer to win Nobel Prize
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Phillip Roth
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Some may think he's anti-Semitic; uses irony
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