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The Education of Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams  

Henry Adams and Ira B. Nadel (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989902
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199552368.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199552368
As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An ... More
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave  

Frederick Douglass and Deborah E. McDowell (ed.)

Published in Print: 
26 March 2009
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191921568
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199539079.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199539079
‘I was born in Tuckahoe. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as ... More
Specimen Days

Specimen Days  

Walt Whitman and Max Cavitch (ed.)

Published in Print: 
Sep 2023
Published Online: 
Dec 2023
eISBN: 
9780191987366
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780198861386.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780198861386
One of the best kept secrets of modern autobiographical literature, Whitman's autobiography moves in brisk, episodic fashion to chronicle the life of one of the world's best loved and most ... More
Walden

Walden  

Henry David Thoreau and Stephen Allen Fender (ed.)

Published in Print: 
13 November 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191921193
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199538065.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199538065
‘The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.’ In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a ... More

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