50 American Classics
A Sweeping Anthology of Nineteenth-Century and Early Modernist American LiteratureBy Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Sinclair Lewis, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Kate Chopin, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark Twain, Mary Mapes Dodge, Jack London, James Fenimore Cooper, Stephen Crane, O. Henry, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, H. P. Lovecraft, L. Frank Baum, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lew Wallace, Max Brand, Zane Grey, Dillon Wallace, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Henry Dana, William Dean Howells, Edward Bellamy, Willa Cather, Ambrose Bierce, E. W. Hornung, Wallace D. Wattles, William Walker Atkinson
Length823h 7m
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50 American Classics surveys the extraordinary breadth of U.S. writing from the early republic through modernism, gathering fiction, poetry, travel narrative, autobiography, reform literature, adventure, fantasy, and speculative social thought. Its selections move between the gothic, the frontier romance, realist observation, regional writing, and experimental prose, while placing canonical meditations on democracy, self-reliance, racial bondage, class, gender, and national expansion beside popular tales of mystery, juvenile wonder, and the West. The volume's range makes literary history visible as a contested, evolving conversation. The contributors include major poets, novelists, essayists, abolitionist witnesses, explorers, and cultural critics whose careers illuminate formative American movements: Transcendentalism, Romanticism, abolitionism, realism, naturalism, regionalism, the Gilded Age, and modernism. Voices shaped by enslavement, Indigenous encounter, migration, industrialization, women's authorship, and imperial ambition complicate any singular account of national literature. Together, these writers reveal both the aspirations and exclusions embedded in the idea of an American classic. Ideal for students, general readers, and established admirers alike, this anthology offers an unusually capacious entry into American literary culture. Reading across its diverse forms and historical moments encourages comparison: between individual freedom and social obligation, myth and memory, popular entertainment and artistic innovation. It is a valuable volume for discovering enduring texts and for tracing the vigorous dialogue they sustain with one another.
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Length823 hrs 7 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Moby-Dick
26CHAPTER 25. Postscript
2CHAPTER 1. Loomings
27CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires
3CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag
28CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires
4CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn
29CHAPTER 28. Ahab
5CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane
30CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb
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6CHAPTER 5. Breakfast
31CHAPTER 30. The Pipe
7CHAPTER 6. The Street
32CHAPTER 31. Queen Mab
8CHAPTER 7. The Chapel
33CHAPTER 32. Cetology
9CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit
34CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder
10CHAPTER 9. The Sermon
35CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table
11CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend
36CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head
12CHAPTER 11. Nightgown
37CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck
13CHAPTER 12. Biographical
38CHAPTER 37. Sunset
14CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow
39CHAPTER 38. Dusk
15CHAPTER 14. Nantucket
40CHAPTER 39. First Night Watch
16CHAPTER 15. Chowder
41CHAPTER 40. Midnight, Forecastle
17CHAPTER 16. The Ship
42CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick
18CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan
43CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale
19CHAPTER 18. His Mark
44CHAPTER 43. Hark!
20CHAPTER 19. The Prophet
45CHAPTER 44. The Chart
21CHAPTER 20. All Astir
46CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit
22CHAPTER 21. Going Aboard
47CHAPTER 46. Surmises
23CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas
48CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker
24CHAPTER 23. The Lee Shore
49CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering
25CHAPTER 24. The Advocate
50CHAPTER 49. The Hyena
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