American Classics

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Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
Discover the charisma and wisdom of one of America’s most influential founding fathers in this new edition of Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography. Printer, scientist, statesman, and architect of the American spirit, Franklin’s literary masterpiece is not just a historical document; it’s a ca...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
Dialect poems by one of the nineteenth century's most talented African American lyricists Paul Laurence Dunbar was “the most promising young colored man” in nineteenth-century America, according to Frederick Douglass, and subsequently one of the most controversial. His plantation lyrics, writt...
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Ellery Queen
The Tragedy of Y (American Mystery Classics)
A Shakespearean actor-turned-sleuth wonders if a suicide's been staged—and suspects the members of an eccentric New York family . . . A ramshackle trawler, the Lavinia D rumbles into New York harbor with empty nets. When its crew spies something floating in the water, they drag it in, hoping f...
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Ella Kovacs Szabo
Elegant Hungarian Tortes and Homestyle Desserts for American Bakers (Volume 6) (Great American Cooking Series)
When Ella Szabó fled her homeland during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, she never dreamed that someday she would become a member of the US Olympic swimming team, an accomplished baker in America, and the author of a cookbook about Hungarian desserts. But a chance encounter with a fellow Hungaria...
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Lionel Trilling
The Liberal Imagination (New York Review Books Classics)
The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s ...
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Arthur Miller
A View from the Bridge (Penguin Classics)
Winner of the 2016 Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play and Best Direction of a Play: Ivo van Hove Set in the 1950s on the gritty Brooklyn waterfront, A View from the Bridge follows the cataclysmic downfall of Eddie Carbone, who spends his days as a hardworking longshoreman and his nights at h...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature and Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
An indispensible look at Emerson's influential life philosophy Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which call...
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William H. Banks Jr
Beloved Harlem: A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood, From the Classics to The Contemporary
A passionate ode to an American mecca, Beloved Harlem is a literary look into the vibrant African-American haven, edited by one of its celebrated native sons. William H. Banks, Jr., combines the classics with the contemporary as he showcases some of the best essays, short stories, and novel excerp...
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Stephanie Burt
The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them
Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty―and sheer variety―leaves many readers puzzled or overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephanie Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where criti...
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George R. Stewart
Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States (New York Review Books Classics)
George R. Stewart’s classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the nation’s peoples. More than half a century later, Names on the Land remains the authoritative source on its subject, while Stewart’s intimate know...
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Edna Ferber
So Big (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
Published to unprecedented literary acclaim in 1924, the Pulitzer-winning novel So Big established Edna Ferber as one of the twentieth century’s major American storytellers. The enthralling and compellingly readable novel recounts a redoubtable woman’s efforts to create an authentic version of...
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JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
The Last of the Mohicans: A Classic Native American Novel of Adventure, Honor, and the American Frontier
Step into one of the most gripping adventures in American literature with The Last of the Mohicans , a timeless Native American novel filled with danger, loyalty, and unforgettable characters. Whether you're discovering this classic for the first time or returning to a beloved story, this edition...
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Daniel Carter Beard
Shelters, Shacks, And Shanties (Legacy Edition): Designs For Cabins And Rustic Living (Library of American Outdoors Classics)
Everyone Needs A Good Shelter in the Woods! Enjoy this unabridged, high-quality Doublebit Legacy reprint of Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties : Dan Beard's classic book on cabin life. Dive into hundreds of illustrations of everything ranging from rustic shelters to deluxe cabins and furnishings. Incl...
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Elizabeth Keckley
Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Penguin Classics)
Originally published in 1868—when it was attacked as an “indecent book” authored by a “traitorous eavesdropper”— Behind the Scenes is the story of Elizabeth Keckley, who began her life as a slave and became a privileged witness to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Keckley bought her fr...
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Theresa Perry
Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students (Beacon Classics)
3 leading Black scholars radically reframe the debates surrounding the academic achievement of African American students in this groundbreaking essay collection A limited Beacon Classics edition, with a gorgeous spot gloss cover and retro, classic palette The unique social and cultural position ...
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Wallace Thurman
The Blacker the Berry . . . (Penguin Classics)
The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community   Emma Lou Morgan’s skin is black. So black that it’s a source of shame to her not only among the largely white community of her hometown of Boise, Idaho, but also among her lighter-skinned family and frie...
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Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Classics Illustrated)
A retelling of Rip Van Winkle, a man who sleeps twenty years and awakens to a changed world, in comic form. In pre-revolutionary New York, Rip Van Winkle unknowingly falls asleep for twenty years and awakens to find the world irrevocably changed. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in ...
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W. S. Scarborough
The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship (African American Life Series)
"If W.E.B Du Bois, the antecedent of today's black public intellectuals, himself has an antecedent, it is W. S. Scarborough, the black scholar's scholar." – Henry Louis Gates Jr. This illuminating autobiography traces Scarborough's path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly ca...
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Anzia Yezierska
Bread Givers (Penguin Classics)
A timeless American novel about an immigrant girl growing up on the Lower East Side who dares to challenge her Orthodox Jewish family’s narrow conceptions of a woman’s place in the world, featuring a new foreword by the author of the New York Times bestseller Unorthodox ―the basis for the h...
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N. Scott Momaday
House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed]: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
“Both a masterpiece about the universal human condition and a masterpiece of Native American literature. . . . A beautiful artistic object, a book everyone should read for the joy and emotion of the language it contains.” — The   Paris Review A special 50 th anniversary edition of the magn...
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