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American Literature
American Literature
This is a collection of custom teaching versions of public domain American Literature texts created by instructors at CUNY and available for all as reading texts. We are building similar collections in other fields as faculty add more projects across the disciplines.
33 projects. Showing results 1 through 20.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
CUNY Student Edition
Mark Twain
A History of New York
from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty
Ain't I a Woman
Four Historical Variants
American Indian Stories
Zitkála-Šá Gertrude Bonnin
American Notes for General Circulation
Arthur Mervyn: Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
Charles Brockden Brown
Benito Cereno
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
Benito Cereno
A CUNY Community College Edition
Herman Melville
CANE, by Jean Toomer (1923)
Team Office Gingers Hack Cane
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper," English 130, Spring 2021
Confessions of Nat Turner
as made to Thomas R. Gray
Thomas R. Gray, Nat Turner
Democracy in America
Edgar Allan Poe, two stories
Edgar Allan Poe
ENG225: Afro-American Literature
LaGuardia Community College
Essays, First and Second Series
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope Leslie
or, Early times in the Massachusetts
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs, Linda BrentLeaves of Grass
Released Aug 24, 2008 via Gutenberg
Walt Whitman
Little Women
My Bondage and My Freedom