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Appendix 2 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters From an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Appendix 1 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters From An American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Letter 12 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters from an American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur  COLOPHON Text: Letters from an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. Jean de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the orginial ed., with a prefatory note...

Letter 11 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters from an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Letter 10 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters from an American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur Colophon Text: Letters from an American farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Letter 9 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer  J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur Text: Letters from an American Farmer, by Hector St. Jean de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original edition, with a prefatory note by W.P....

Letter 8 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters From an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note by...

Letter 7 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters from an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Letter 6 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters from an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Letter 5 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters from an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Letter 3 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters from an American Farmer J. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur LETTER III. WHAT IS AN AMERICAN. I WISH I could be acquainted with the feelings and thoughts which must agitate the heart and present...

Letter 2 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters From an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Letters from An American Farmer by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur What then is the American, this new man?…He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives...

Symbols in the Great Gatsby by Frederick Millett

Symbols in The Great Gatsby by Frederick C. Millett Perhaps F. Scott Fitzgerald’s greatest work, The Great Gatsby is not only a great story, but an insight into the flaws of real life during...

The Last of the Mohicans 1920 film

This 1920 American film adaption of The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper’s novel of the same name is the story of two English sisters who encounter danger and heroism on the...

American Literature Videos

Videos referenced in American Literature (E3): Module 1 William Zeitler plays the glass armonica (an instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin) Module 2 Poe’s poem “The Raven” read aloud by Christopher Walken, combined with Gustave...

American Literature Texts

English III: American Literature, A Survey Course What does American Literature cover? American Literature is a college-preparatory chronological literature survey course. Focus works, including novels, short stories, poems, and drama, have been selected for...

Jennie Clemen's Grave, by Herbert Rickards

To Jennie by Mark Twain

To Jennie by Mark Twain EIL Editor’s note: Written upon the death of his niece, Jennie Clemens, To Jennie is Twain at his most somber. The only child of his brother Orion, Jennie was...

Mark Twain, American Humorist

Genius by Mark Twain

Genius by Mark Twain EIL Editor’s note: Twain at his most satirical, Genius is a biting mockery of not only the eccentric poetic stereotype but the tendency of critics to evaluate work based on...

Mark Twain; from a glass negative

Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots by Mark Twain

Ode To Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d by Mark Twain EIL Editior’s note: Originally appearing in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a work by Emmaline Grangerford (a caricature of Twain’s contemporary Julia A. Moore),...

Those Annual Bills by Mark Twain

THOSE ANNUAL BILLS BY MARK TWAIN EIL Editor’s note: Never one to shy away from social commentary or criticism, Twain’s Those Annual Bills is a semi-comical lament of the financial necessities of existence which is...

The Aged Pilot Man by Mark Twain

THE AGED PILOT MAN by Mark Twain EIL Editor’s note: Being serious for once, Twain penned The Aged Pilot Man as an ode to the steamboat captains with whom he lived and worked. Taking place...

Mark Twain, American Humorist

A Sweltering Day in Australia by Mark Twain

A SWELTERING DAY IN AUSTRALIA by Mark Twain EIL Editor’s note: A whimsical exploration of Australian geography and nomenclature, Twain’s A Sweltering Day in Australia is poking fun at both linguistic differences and at...

Mark Twain; from a glass negative

Mark Twain Images

With his luxuriant mustache and insouciant air, Mark Twain looked just like what he was—a satirically humorous creative author. These images, mostly from the Library of Congress, offer a glimpse of Twain and his...

In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound

In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound (1885 – 1972) The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. That’s it. “In a Station of the Metro”...

Chicago by Carl Sandburg

CHICAGO by Carl Sandburg First published in Poetry magazine, 1914.                   CHICAGO HOG Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and...

Sugar by Gertrude Stein

SUGAR A poem by Gertrude Stein SUGAR. A violent luck and a whole sample and even then quiet. Water is squeezing, water is almost squeezing on lard. Water, water is a mountain and it...