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.

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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 A. Jacobs, Linda Brent

Leaves of Grass

Released Aug 24, 2008 via Gutenberg

Walt Whitman

Little Women

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass