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Featured Article: Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind is a famous historical novel about the American Civil War by Margaret Mitchell, a Georgia journalist and writer. See more »
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Angels in America
Angels in America is a long play by the American dramatist Tony Kushner.
See more »Author to Her Book, The
Author to Her Book, The, is a poem by the early American poet Anne Bradstreet.
See more »Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Because I Could Not Stop for Death is a poem by the American poet Emily Dickinson, who is considered one of the finest poets in American literature.
See more »Catch-22
Catch-22 is a famous war novel by the American author Joseph Heller, published in 1961.
See more »Catcher in the Rye, The
Catcher in the Rye, The, is a famous novel by the American author J.
See more »Crucible, The
Crucible, The, is a powerful historical drama by American playwright Arthur Miller.
See more »Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman is a powerful tragedy by the American dramatist Arthur Miller.
See more »Evangeline
Evangeline is a long narrative poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
See more »Frietchie, Barbara
Frietchie, FREECH ee, Barbara, is the name of a woman who supposedly acted bravely to protect the Union flag against Confederate troops in 1862.
See more »Glass Menagerie, The
Glass Menagerie, The, is a play by the American dramatist Tennessee Williams that was his first critical and commercial success.
See more »Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind is a famous historical novel about the American Civil War by Margaret Mitchell, a Georgia journalist and writer.
See more »Grapes of Wrath, The
Grapes of Wrath, The, is a famous novel by American author John Steinbeck that describes the hardships farm families faced during the Great Depression of the 1930's.
See more »Huckleberry Finn, Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn, Adventures of, is a novel by Mark Twain that ranks among the greatest works in American literature.
See more »In a Station of the Metro
In a Station of the Metro is one of the best-known early poems by the American poet Ezra Pound.
See more »In the Suburbs
In the Suburbs is a short poem by the Jamaican-born American poet Louis Simpson.
See more »Inkslinger, Johnny
Inkslinger, Johnny, a character in American folklore, was Paul Bunyan's timekeeper.
See more »Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass is a collection of poems by American poet Walt Whitman that is considered one of the world's major literary works.
See more »Long Day's Journey into Night
Long Day's Journey into Night is an autobiographical play by the American dramatist Eugene O'Neill.
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