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ENGL 2130: American Literature

This guide will assist students in locating and conducting research for American Literature

Notable American Literature

The Story of an Hour (1894, 1895) by Kate Chopin

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) by Washington Irving

The Lottery (1948) by Shirley Jackson

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890, 1891) by Ambrose Bierce

To Build a Fire (1908) by Jack London

Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl (1916-1990)

A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

The Jar by Ray Bradbury

Good Country People By Flannery O'Connor

A Dark Brown Dog (written 1893, published 1901) by Stephen Crane

The Storm by Kate Chopin

The Open Boat by Stephen Crane

At the 'Cadian Ball by Kate Chopin

Hurston Zora Neal's, The Gilded Six-Bits 

Examples of Poetry Genres: Major Styles Explained

The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

Cherrylog Road BY JAMES L. DICKEY

Still I Rise BY MAYA ANGELOU

The Waste Land BY T. S. ELIOT

Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson

Fire and Ice by Robert Frost

O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman

Day of Doom by Michael Wiggleswort

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moby Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Beloved by Toni Morrison

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Little Women (1868) by Louisa May Alcott

The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger

The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Souls of Black Folk, 1903 by W. E. B. Du Bois

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

My Ántonia by Willa Cather

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Fairy Talez
Freely accessible and large collection of fairy tales, folk tales, and fables online. Fairytalez also accepts submissions of fairy and folk tales.

Open Folklore 

Open Folklore is a scholarly resource devoted to increasing the number and variety of open access resources, published and unpublished, that are available for the field of folklore studies and the communities with whom folklore scholars partner

Native American Oral Tales and Songs

American Folklore
Features folktales from all fifty states.

World of Tales
Contains fairy tales for children from around the world.

Folklore and Mythology - Electronic Texts

Additional Resources & Links

Classic Short Stories
Complete short stories from some of the best classic short story writers.

Literature - The New York Times Web Archive

The Short Story Library
There are over 4000 titles in The Short Story Library, including the greatest short stories ever written.

100 Short Stories

Heath Guide to American Literature Volume II Web Sites

Books That Shaped America

THE AMERICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION

A COALITION OF SOCIETIES DEVOTED TO THE STUDY OF AMERICAN AUTHORS

American Literature Lessons — Nineteenth Century

Read Great Literature

A Brief History Of American Literature

A Brief History of English and American Literature

Youtube videos

Priceless Audiobooks

New Immigrant Literatures in the United States: A Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage

The Gothic Element in American Literature before 1835

American Literature

Crash Course: Literature

This link has fun and high quality videos on various pieces of literature, American and other.

Open Culture

100 Great Poems

twentieth-century poetry

Modern American Poetry. This companion site to Anthology of Modern American Poetry, edited by Cary Nelson, includes biographies, links, and excerpts from literary criticism on the poets.

Poetryfoundation.org

Poets.org 

UNDERSTANDING POETRY

The First Forty Nine Stories by Hemingway,Ernest.

LiteraryHistory.com

Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

RPO Representative Poetry Online

Standard Ebooks

Read.gov Explore New Worlds. Read.

The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress invites people of all ages to discover the fascinating people, places and events that await you whenever you read.

Free classic Ebooks Thousands of free ebooks of classic literature for kindle, tablet, online browser or smart phone

Page by Page books

Free eBooks

A list of all the free ePUB, PDF and MOBI eBooks published on Planet eBook.

The Online Books Page

Browsing Authors : "A. B." to "Abbatt, William, 1851-1935"

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