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| SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY | DAISY MILLER | ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN | BOSTONIANS |
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The dark side of Leaves of Grass |
Abroad, but how innocent? |
"I got to light out for the Territory" |
The city of Boston be damned! |
| Titles | Authors | Notes |
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn |
Mark Twain | "I got to light out for the Territory" |
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
Mark Twain | What's gone with that boy? |
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Age Of Innocence |
Edith Wharton | How Society destroys an unsuitable romance |
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Alice Adams |
Booth Tarkington | My, my! We don't learn easy! |
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
Ambrose Bierce | The thought of his wife and children urged him on |
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Bartleby the Scrivener |
Herman Melville | Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity! |
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Bostonians |
Henry James | The city of Boston be damned! |
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Cabbages and Kings |
O. Henry | Perhaps only the Walrus will understand |
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Confidence-Man |
Herman Melville | Maybe you can fool all of the people all of the time |
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Country of the Pointed Firs |
Sarah Orne Jewett | America perhaps as it was meant to be |
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Daisy Miller |
Henry James | Abroad, but how innocent? |
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Delight Makers |
Adolf F. Bandelier | A tragic tale of the Native American Southwest |
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Democracy |
Henry Adams | You get Mrs. Clinton, and if your sister is there---- |
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Devil's Dictionary |
Ambrose Bierce | BRUTE, n. See HUSBAND. |
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Ethan Frome |
Edith Wharton | A striking figure, but the ruin of a man |
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House of Mirth |
Edith Wharton | If you could forgive your enemy, first inflict a hurt on him. |
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I Have a Dream |
Martin Luther King | From every mountainside, let freedom ring! |
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Java Head |
Joseph Hergesheimer | No, it's not about an espresso addict. |
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Jungle |
Upton Sinclair | Chicago will be ours! |
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Maggie: A Girl Of The Streets |
Stephen Crane | Mean streets, and then some |
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Main Street |
Sinclair Lewis | Gopher Prairie, 1; Carol Milford, 0 |
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Moby Dick |
Herman Melville | Ahab never thinks; he only feels |
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My Antonia |
Willa Cather | She was a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races |
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Mysterious Stranger |
Mark Twain | Life itself is only a vision |
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Octopus |
Frank Norris | The grain seemed impelled with a force of its own |
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Pit |
Frank Norris | Give a dollar for July! |
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Port of Missing Men |
Meredith Nicholson | Who is John Armitage? |
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Red Badge Of Courage |
Stephen Crane | A classic of the Civil War and every war |
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Reef |
Edith Wharton | The more he saw of life, the more incalculable he found it |
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Scarlet Letter |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | Deadbeat dad dumps Puritan gal, pays price |
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Sister Carrie |
Theodore Dreiser | Village girl corrupted by Chicago's wicked ways |
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Spoon River Anthology |
Edgar Lee Masters | The dark side of Leaves of Grass |
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Summer |
Edith Wharton | The noise of summer showers on the roof had rustled through their kisses |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | The little book that started the Civil War |
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Winesburg, Ohio |
Sherwood Anderson | Men live behind walls of misunderstanding they build themselves |
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Xingu |
Edith Wharton | The huntresses of erudition run in packs |