American Classics

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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Word Cloud Classics)
The story of a slave struggling to maintain his dignity during the pre-Civil War era, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in 1852 to tremendous success. Since then, the book has received significant acclaim and invoked controversy. Many believe it was an important step on the road to the Civil War, ...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables (Modern Library Classics)
First published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne's defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cursed house with a "mysterious and terrible past" and the generations linked to it, Hawthorne's chroni...
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Henry James
Daisy Miller (Penguin Classics)
Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of those ...
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Arthur Miller
The Man Who Had All the Luck (Penguin Classics)
The forgotten classic that launched the career of one of America's greatest playwrights A Penguin Classic It took more than fifty years for The Man Who Had All the Luck to be appreciated for what it truly is: the first stirrings of a genius that would go on to blossom in such masterpieces as D...
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Doublebit Press
The Boy Scouts' First Handbook For Boys (Legacy Edition): The Original 1911 Version (Library of American Outdoors Classics)
The Original 1911 handbook version that started it all! Enjoy this unabridged, high-quality Doublebit Legacy reprint of the first 1911 edition of the Scout Handbook For Boys. This was the first “official” handbook issued for scouts in the U.S.A. Featuring instruction in outdoors life, woodcraf...
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Eran Shalev
Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic (Jeffersonian America)
Rome Reborn on Western Shores examines the literature of the Revolutionary era to explore the ways in which American patriots employed the classics and to assess antiquity's importance to the early political culture of the United States. Where other writers have concentrated on political theory and...
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Susan Neiman
Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy (Princeton Classics)
A compelling look at the problem of evil in modern thought, from the Inquisition to global terrorism Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of huma...
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Herman Melville
Billy Budd, Sailor, and Selected Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
'Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!' Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good and evil, a meditation on justice and political governanc...
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Henry James
The Golden Bowl (Oxford World's Classics)
Published in 1904, The Golden Bowl is the last completed novel of Henry James. In it, the widowed American Adam Verver is in Europe with his daughter Maggie. They are rich, finely appreciative of European art and culture, and deeply attached to each other. Maggie has all the innocent charm of so m...
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Gian-Carlo Rota
Indiscrete Thoughts (Modern Birkhäuser Classics)
Indiscrete Thoughts gives a glimpse into a world that has seldom been described that of science and technology as seen through the eyes of a mathematician. The era covered by this book, 1950 to 1990, was surely one of the golden ages of science as well as the American university. Cherished myths are...
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Elmer Kreps
Camp And Trail Methods (Legacy Edition) (Library of American Outdoors Classics)
Tips and Tricks for Life on the Trail! This unabridged reprint edition of the classic Camp and Trail Methods by Elmer Kreps brings to light many of the old-time tricks and traditional ways of the woods that some of the more comprehensive instruction manuals leave out. Originally published in 1910,...
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J. Hector St John de Crèvecoeur
Letters from an American Farmer (Oxford World's Classics)
Written by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: "What, then, is the American, this new man?", as a new nation took shape before the eyes of the world. Addressing some of American literature's most pressing concerns and i...
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Saul Bellow
Something to Remember Me By: Three Tales (Penguin Classics)
A trio of short works by the Nobel laureate and "greatest writer of American prose of the twentieth century" (James Wood, The New Republic ) A Penguin Classic While Saul Bellow is known best for his longer fiction in award-winning novels such as The Adventures of Augie March and Herzog , Som...
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Alexander Hamilton
The Federalist Papers (Knickerbocker Classics, 47)
The Federalist Papers is a collection of political essays, three United States Founding Fathers intelligently and forcefully advocate the ratification of what became this country’s supreme law. Written by the iconic American statesman, Alexander Hamilton, the original US chief justice, John Jay...
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James M. McPherson
The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction - Updated Edition (Princeton Classics)
Originally published in 1964, The Struggle for Equality presents an incisive and vivid look at the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it provided to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Pulitzer Prize–winning historian James McPherson explores the role played by rights activists during...
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Henry David Thoreau
Walden and Civil Disobedience (Barnes & Noble Classics)
Walden and Civil Disobedience , by Henry David Thoreau, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the r...
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Horace Kephart
The Book Of Camping And Woodcraft (Legacy Edition): A Guidebook For Those Who Travel In The Wilderness (Library of American Outdoors Classics)
Kephart's original how-to manual for the outdoors! This is the original handbook from the master of outdoors instruction. In this deluxe Legacy Edition reprint of the first version of Kephart's masterwork (in its final fifth edition printing), learn all of the essential, but often forgotten ski...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby (Chartwell Classics)
Relive the glorious excess of the roaring 1920s with this beautifully designed, jacketed hardcover edition of The Great Gatsby . F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best-known novel is set in hedonistic Jazz Age Long Island and tells the story of millionaire Jay Gatsby and his pursuit of his former lover,...
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Louisa May Alcott
Little Women: Illustrations by Marjolein Bastin (Marjolein Bastin Classics Series)
The exquisite illustrations of Marjolein Bastin meet timeless text in this elegant special edition of an American literary masterpiece. Discover anew the world of  Little Women  – the 1860s, the turbulent days of the American Civil War, and four sisters as different as they could be: Meg, who ...
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Robert Baden-Powell
Scouting For Boys 1908 Version (Legacy Edition): The Original First Handbook That Started The Global Boy Scout Movement (Library of American Outdoors
The Very First Boy Scout Handbook from 1908! This deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of Robert Baden-Powell's 1908 Scouting For Boys is the very first manual for boy scouts, which kicked off the global scout movement! First published in the UK for British boy scouts, BP's handbook provides...
$31.99
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