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American literature to 1900

      Titles Descriptions
  1. About.com: Mark Twain
  2. American Collection
  3. Awakening And Selected Short Stories, The
  4. Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
  5. Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
  6. Emory Women Writers Resource Project
  7. Frank Baum Novels
  8. Henry James Novels
  9. Herman Melville: Billy Budd
  10. Jack London Novels
  11. James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
  12. Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening
  13. Life and Works of Herman Melville
  14. Literary History
  15. Louisa May Alcott: Good Wives
  16. Louisa May Alcott: Little Women
  17. Mark Twain in His Times (1835-1910)
  18. Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  19. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
  20. Welcome to Oz
  21. Wright American Fiction 1851-1875

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About.com: Mark Twain
Collection of resources by or about Mark Twain, including maxims and sayings, texts, biography and criticism, teaching resources, and discussion lists.
     Author: About.com
     Subjects: american literature to 1900
     DeweyClass: 813.3
     Resource type: biography, documents
American Collection
Teaching resources, lesson plans, background information, and profiles of American authors Willa Cather, Eudora Welty, Langston Hughes, and Henry James. Full texts of selected novels, a literary timeline, and a catalogue of American literature on videotape are available.
     Author: Eaton, Rebecca & Rees, Marian
     Subjects: american literature to 1900
     DeweyClass: 813
     Resource type: documents
Awakening And Selected Short Stories, The
Full texts of a selection of Kate Chopin's (1851-1904) stories, which identify with the Southern United States in the 1800s. Included are A Pair of Silk Stockings, A Reflection, A Respectable Woman, Awakening, Beyond the Bayou, Desiree's Baby, Ma'ame Pelagie, The Kiss, and The Locket.
     Author: Chopin, Kate
     Subjects: american literature to 1900
     DeweyClass: 813.4
     Resource type: fiction ebooks
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
Descriptions and images of the covers of dime novels and penny dreadfuls, including long runs of major series such as Frank Leslie's Boys of America, Happy Days, and Beadle's New York Dime Library. Provides a guided tour of the print process, and offers some of the works in full text. Collection is browsable by title, features, and images, and searchable by title, captions, graphics, and subjects.
     Author: Stanford University Libraries
     Subjects: american literature to 1900
     DeweyClass: 813
     Resource type: documents, images
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
Set of articles addressing aspects of Poe's life in relation to drugs and alcohol, religion, family, friends, and enemies. Offers information on the writer's poems, tales, essays, literary criticism, with a selection of full text versions, and a collection of lectures and articles composed about him. Also provides specific information about Poe in Baltimore, the site of his birth, death, and burial.
     Author: Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
     Subjects: american literature to 1900, american poetry
     DeweyClass: 810
     Resource type: documents
Emory Women Writers Resource Project
Collection of women's writing from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, including works by Margaret Cavendish, Anne Wentworth and Aphra Behn.
     Author: Emory Women Writers Resource Project
     Subjects: american literature to 1900, women writers
     DeweyClass: 808.89
     Resource type: documents
Frank Baum Novels
Full text of children's literature by American writer, Frank Baum (1856-1919), including Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, The Land of Oz, and The Wizard of Oz.
     Author: Baum, Frank
     Subjects: american literature to 1900, children's literature
     DeweyClass: 808.899
     Resource type: fiction ebooks
Henry James Novels
Full text of novels by Henry James (1843-1916), including The Altar of the Dead, The Ambassadors, The American, The Aspern Papers, Confidence, Daisy Miller, The Death of the Lion, The Europeans, An International Episode, Roderick Hudson, and The Turn of Screw.
     Author: James, Henry
     Subjects: american literature to 1900
     DeweyClass: 813.4
     Resource type: fiction ebooks
Herman Melville: Billy Budd
Full text of American novel Billy Budd by Herman Melville (1819-1891).
     Author: Melville, Herman
     Subjects: american literature to 1900
     DeweyClass: 813.3
     Resource type: fiction ebook
Jack London Novels
Full text of novels by American writer Jack London (1876-1916), including Before Adam, Burning Daylight, Call of the Wild, John Barleycorn, and the autobiographical novel, Martin Eden.
     Author: London, Jack
     Subjects: american literature to 1900
     DeweyClass: 813.5
     Resource type: fiction ebooks
James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
Full text of The Last of the Mohicans by American writer James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851).
     Author: Cooper, James Fenimore
     Subjects: american literature to 1900
     DeweyClass: 813.2
     Resource type: fiction ebook
Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening
Documentary celebrating Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening', published in 1899. Now considered a valuable contribution to the women's movement in the 20th century, the novel was initially rejected and lost for over 50 years. Information includes transcripts, a chronology of events in Chopin's life, an interview with her grandson, articles about her work, and bibliographies of criticism.
     Author: Public Broadcasting Service
     Subjects: american literature to 1900, women in history, women writers
     DeweyClass: 813
     Resource type: documents, moving images
Life and Works of Herman Melville
Biographical resources, excerpts and texts, criticism and related resources on sea, whales and sailing.
     Author: Melville, Herman & Madden, J.
     Subjects: american literature to 1900, whales
     DeweyClass: 813.3
     Resource type: biography, documents
Literary History
Magazine for readers of English and American literature, providing access to critical articles published on the Web. Offers a 'Guide to 19th Century English Literature' arranged by author, and includes articles on plagiarism and online publishing.
     Author: Pridmore, Jan
     Subjects: american literature to 1900, english literature 1801-1870, english literature from 1871, literary studies
     DeweyClass: 809
     Resource type: magazine
Louisa May Alcott: Good Wives
Full text of the novel Good Wives by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888).
     Author: Alcott, Louisa May
     Subjects: american literature to 1900
     DeweyClass: 813.4
     Resource type: fiction ebook
Louisa May Alcott: Little Women
Full text of the novel Little Women by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888).
     Author: Alcott, Louisa May
     Subjects: american literature to 1900
     DeweyClass: 813.4
     Resource type: fiction ebook
Mark Twain in His Times (1835-1910)
Traces the life and work of Mark Twain as a best-selling writer, live performer, celebrity, and American icon. As such, this resource details the advertising campaigns, reviews, illustrations, and e-texts of Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Connecticut Yankee, and Pudd'nhead Wilson.
     Author: Railton, Stephen
     Subjects: american literature to 1900
     DeweyClass: 813.3
     Resource type: biography, documents
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Full text of American children's novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain (1835-1910).
     Author: Twain, Mark
     Subjects: american literature to 1900
     DeweyClass: 813.4
     Resource type: fiction ebook
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Resource which provides links and bibliographic information on Nathaniel Hawthorne and various aspects of his life and career. Sections include sources on The Scarlet Letter, The Bilthedale Romance, short fiction, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Hawthorne's friendship with Herman Melville, reasons for his current popularity, major themes in his fiction, significant influences, the novel versus romance debate and practice study questions.
     Author: Reuben, Paul P., Perspectives in American Literature (PAL), California State University Stanislaus
     Subjects: american literature to 1900
     DeweyClass: 813
     Resource type: documents
Welcome to Oz
Collection of online resources chronicling the history of the Oz stories in print, cinema, and art, and the people behind the tales. Biographical information includes sources on L Frank Baum, W W Denslow, Jr., Frank Kramer, and Dick Martin. Literary material incorporates the 'Famous Forty' covering the period 1899-1963, as well as the works that followed and were later discovered. Additional works by those involved in Oz, and their critical analysis, are also available.
     Author: Weisberg, Lawrence D.
     Subjects: american literature from 1900, american literature to 1900, children's books, children's literature
     DeweyClass: 808.899
     Resource type: index
Wright American Fiction 1851-1875
Searchable bibliography of works by American authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, and Herman Melville. Tables of contents and an image of the first page is provided for each title, and full text is given where available. Offers proximity, Boolean, and citation search facilities, and entries can be browsed by author and keyword.
     Author: Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) and Indiana University Digital Library Program
     Subjects: american literature to 1900
     DeweyClass: 813
     Resource type: books, opac