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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 21 through 33.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
An American Slave, Written by Himself
Oration, Delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester
A CUNY Student Edition
Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches
CUNY Student Edition
Ruth Hall
The Birth-mark
A Hostos Community College Edition
The Coquette
or, The History of Eliza Wharton; a Novel, Founded on Fact
Hannah Webster Foster
The Great Lawsuit
A CUNY Student Edition
The Heroic Slave
By Frederick Douglass with Background and Context
The Negro and the Nation
Hubert Harrison
The Purloined Letter
Edgar Allan Poe
The Scarlet Letter
A Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Or, Life Among the Lowly
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Walden
or Life in the Woods
Henry David Thoreau