Selected Catalogue of American Literary Masterpieces

1./kloc-American society and American literature in the 0/9th century

2. James Fenimo Cooper

From the Pioneers (Chapter 22)

3. Ralph Waldo Emerson

be self-reliant

4. nathaniel hawthorne

Minister's black veil

Rapaccini's daughter.

5. edgar allan poe

Ligia

The collapse of the old house in Asher

Philosophy of writing

6. henry david thoreau

Walden Lake or Forest Life

Resistance to the civilian government

7. walt whitman

Songs from myself (1, 6, 15, 16, 20, 2 1, 23, 24, 3 1, 33, 48, 52)

Cross the Brooklyn ferry

Get out of the cradle and swing endlessly.

When lilacs finally bloom in the yard

8. herman melville

Excerpted from Moby Dick (chapters 36, 4 1, 42, 72, 94, 1 19)

9.emily dickinson

Poetry (214,241,249,258,288,290,303,328,341,435,448,

465,520,569,632,640,675,709,7 12,72 1,754,764,883,937,

986, 1068, 1072, 1078, 1 129, 1463, 1545, 1593, 160 1, 1624,

1732)

10.[ Name] Mark Twain (American humorist, novelist, writer and speaker)

Excerpted from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (chapters 15, 16, 2 1, 3 1).

1 1. Henry James

From daisy miller (Chapters 3 and 4)

The Art of Fiction

12. Stephen clay

From the Red Medal of Courage (Chapters 1, 6, 9, 14, 18, 25)