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| Mark Twain (1835ndash;1910) | |
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| ldquo;The Dandy Frightening the Squatter.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.rdquo; | |
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| From Old Times on the Mississippi | |
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| ldquo;A Boy Wants to Be a Pilot.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;A `Cub' Pilot's Experience; or, Learning the River.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;The Continued Perplexities of `Cub' Piloting.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech.rdquo; | |
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| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | |
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| ldquo;How to Tell a Story.rdquo; | |
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| From Letters from the Earth | |
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| ldquo;Letter III.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;Letter IV.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;A New England Nun.rdquo; | |
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| Sarah Orne Jewett (1849ndash;1909) | |
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| ldquo;A White Heron.rdquo; | |
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| Bret Harte | |
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| ldquo;Tennessee's Partner.rdquo; | |
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| George Washington Cable (1844ndash;1925) | |
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| ldquo;Belles Demoiselles Plantation.rdquo; | |
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| Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858ndash;1932) | |
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| ldquo;The Goophered Grapevine.rdquo; | |
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| Joel Chandler Harris (1848ndash;1908) | |
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| ldquo;How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;Free Joe and the Rest of the World.rdquo; | |
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| William Dean Howells (1837ndash;1920) | |
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| ldquo;Editha.rdquo; | |
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| From Criticism and Fiction | |
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| Henry James (1843ndash;1916) | |
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| ldquo;Daisy Miller: A Study.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;The Real Thing.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;The Beast in the Jungle.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;The Turn of the Screw.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;The Art of Fiction.rdquo; | |
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| Ambrose Bierce (1842ndash;1914) | |
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| ldquo;An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.rdquo; | |
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| Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860ndash;1935) | |
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| ldquo;The Yellow Wall-Paper.rdquo; | |
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| Kate Chopin (1851ndash;1904) | |
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| The Awakening | |
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| Stephen Crane (1871ndash;1900) | |
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| ldquo;Black riders came from the sea.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;In the desert.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;A God in wrath.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;I saw a man pursuing the horizon.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;Supposing that I should have the courage.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;On the horizon the peaks assembled.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;A man feared that he might find an assassin.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;A man said to the universe.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;A man adrift on a slim spar.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;The Red Badge of Courage.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;The Open Boat.rdquo; | |
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| Frank Norris (1870ndash;1902) | |
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| ldquo;A Deal in Wheat.rdquo; | |
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| Jack London (1876ndash;1916) | |
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| ldquo;The Law of Life.rdquo; | |
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| Edith Wharton (1862ndash;1937) | |
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| ldquo;The Other Two.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;Roman Fever.rdquo; | |
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| Theodore Dreiser (1871ndash;1945) | |
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| ldquo;Free.rdquo; | |
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| Henry Adams (1838ndash;1918) | |
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| From The Education of Henry Adams | |
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| The Literature of the Twentieth Century (1900 TO 1945) | |
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| W.E.B. Du Bois (1868ndash;1963) | |
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| ldquo;The Souls of Black Folkrdquo; | |
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| Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869ndash;1935) | |
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| ldquo;Luke Havergal.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;Zola.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;Richard Cory.rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;Cliff Klingenhagen.rdquo; | |