Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain and Emory Elliott (ed.)
You don’t know about me, without you have read a book by the name of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, but that ain’t no matter. So begins, in characteristic fashion, one of the greatest ...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain and Peter Stoneley (ed.)
‘Tom was a glittering hero once more – the pet of the old, and the envy of the young…There were some that believed he would be President yet, if he escaped hanging.’ In this enduring and ...
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The American
Henry James and Adrian Poole (ed.)
‘You you a nun; you with your beauty defaced and your nature wasted you behind locks and bars! Never, never, if I can prevent it!’ A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe ...
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The Aspern Papers and Other Stories
Henry James and Adrian Poole (ed.)
There's no baseness I wouldn't commit for Jeffrey Aspern's sake.’ The poet Aspern, long since dead, has left behind some private papers. They are jealously guarded by an old lady, once his ...
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The Awakening: And Other Stories
Kate Chopin and Pamela Knights (ed.)
‘She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.’ Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new ...
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The Bostonians
Henry James and R. D. Gooder (ed.)
The plot of this novel revolves around the feminist movement in Boston in the 1870s. F.R. Leavis called it one of “the two most brilliant novels in the language.” The novel’s many allusions ...
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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
Herman Melville, Tony Tanner (ed.), and John Dugdale (ed.)
Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the ‘masquerade’ of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidèle is ‘the confidence man’? The central motif of Melville’s ...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain, M. Thomas Inge (ed.), and Daniel Carter Beard
When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. Thus what began as a literary burlesque of ...
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Daisy Miller and An International Episode
Henry James and Adrian Poole (ed.)
An inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence’ ... Young Daisy Miller perplexes, amuses, and charms her stiff but susceptible fellow-American, Frederick Winterbourne. Is she innocent ...
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Daisy Miller and Other Stories
Henry James and Jean Gooder (ed.)
This volume includes “Daisy Miller”, “Pandora”, “The Patagonia”, and “Four Meetings”.
The Europeans: A Sketch
Henry James and Ian Campbell Ross
Eugenia, Baroness Mnster, wife of a German princeling who wishes to be rid of her, crosses the ocean with her brother Felix to seek out their American relatives. Their voyage is prompted, ...
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Michael Davitt Bell (ed.)
In the final years of the seventeenth century in a small New England town, the venerable Colonel Pyncheon decides to erect a ponderously oak-framed and spacious family mansion. It occupies ...
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The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper and John McWilliams (ed.)
The second of Cooper’s five Leatherstocking Tales, this is the one which has consistently captured the imagination of generations since it was first published in 1826. Its success lies ...
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott and Valerie Alderson (ed.)
Little Women has remained enduringly popular since its publication in 1868, becoming the inspiration for a whole genre of family stories. Set in a small New England community, it tells of ...
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Looking Backward 2000-1887
Edward Bellamy and Matthew Beaumont (ed.)
‘No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.’ Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siècle Boston, ...
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The Marble Faun
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Susan Manning (ed.)
Any narrative of human action and adventure – whether we call it history or Romance – is certain to be a fragile handiwork, more easily rent than mended.’ The fragility – and the durability ...
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McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
Frank Norris and Jerome Loving (ed.)
McTeague (1899) chronicles the demise of a San Francisco couple at the end of the nineteenth century. Inspired by an actual crime that was sensationalized in the San Francisco ...
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My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass and Celeste-Marie Bernier (ed.)
It was said to me, “Better have a little of the plantation manner of speech than not; ‘tis not best that you seem too learned.”’ Appearing in 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second ...
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