101 Great American Poems

Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Emma Lazarus, Wallace Stevens, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, E.E. Cummings, Robinson Jeffers, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Marianne Moore, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Anne Bradstreet, Andrew Carroll, Edna St. Vincent Millay, W.H. Auden, Claude McKay, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Archibald MacLeish, Sara Teasdale, Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, The American Poetry and Literacy Project, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Lee Masters, Stephen Crane, Paul Laurence Dunbar, T.S. Eliot

80 pages | first published 1998

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40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology

James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, Alice Walker, Yusuf Idris, Amy Tan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Bessie Head, Joyce Carol Oates, Sandra Cisneros, Willa Cather, Toni Cade Bambara, Tim O'Brien, Gabriel García Márquez, James Joyce, Alice Munro, Lorrie Moore, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Updike, D.H. Lawrence, John Steinbeck, Tillie Olsen, Eudora Welty, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Ralph Ellison, Katherine Anne Porter, Guy de Maupassant, Flannery O'Connor, Anton Chekhov, Jhumpa Lahiri, Franz Kafka, Jamaica Kincaid, Sherman Alexie, William Faulkner, Haruki Murakami, Stephen Crane, Beverly Lawn, Kate Chopin

546 pages | first published 2000

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50 Great American Short Stories

Sherwood Anderson, W.E.B. White, John Cheever, Robert M. Coates, Ernest Hemingway, George Ade, Finley Peter Dunne, Jack London, Fitz-James O'Brien, O. Henry, John Collier, Carson McCullers, Oliver La Farge, Charles M. Flandrau, Erskine Caldwell, James Agee, Henry James, Irwin Shaw, Mark Twain, Conrad Aiken, Richard P. Russell, Dorothy Parker, William Maxwell, Ludwig Bemelmans, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Milton Crane, John Updike, Seymour Freedgood, Clarence Day Jr., William Saroyan, Theodore Dreiser, John Steinbeck, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, James Thurber, John McNulty, Washington Irving, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Vincent Benét, James Reid Parker, Bret Harte, Wallace Stegner, Edith Wharton, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Kay Boyle, William Carlos Williams, Sarah Orne Jewett, William Faulkner, Ring Lardner, Stephen Crane, Joseph Mitchell

502 pages | first published 1963

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American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation

Mary B. Harlan, Sarah Grimké, Charles Pinckney Sumner, Lydia Adams, Annie Parker, Prince Hall, Henry David Thoreau, Elhanan Winchester, Harry Thomas, Jonathan Edwards, St. George Tucker, John Hepburn, Elihu Coleman, William Wells Brown, George L. Aiken, Boyrereau Brinch, John T. Trowbridge, Horace Greeley, Solomon Northup, Harriet Tubman, Henry “Box” Brown, Robert Pleasants, Prince Saunders, Martin R. Delany, Noah Webster, Elizur Wright Jr., George Moses Horton, Gerret Hendricks, Mary Hayden Green Pike, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Theodore Dwight Weld, Charles Ball, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Woolman, Gerrit Smith, Joel Barlow, Josiah Henson, Frederick Douglass, James G. Basker, Angelina Emily Grimké, Lewis Garrard Clarke, John Brown, John Neal, Susanna Rowson, Samuel Hopkins, Anthony Benezet, Adam Carman, Boston King, Jane Dunlap, Isabella Oliver, Phyllis Wheatley, Benjamin Rush, John Pierpont, Horace Mann, William Ellery Channing, James McCune Smith, Benjamin Lay, Mary Townsend, Henry Ward Beecher, Arthur Lee, Louisa May Alcott, Thomas Branagan, Benjamin Banneker, Lemuel Haynes, Robert Voorhis, Rufus King, Lyman Trumbull, Joseph Evans Snodgrass, Jermain Wesley Loguen, Caroline Healey Dall, M.L. Gardner, Peter Clemmons Sr., John Greenleaf Whittier, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Patrick Henry, Olaudah Equiano, Peter Williams Jr., Austin Steward, Thomas Paine, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Daniel Henshaw, Ezra Stiles, Jeremiah Gloucester, David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, George Keith, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sojourner Truth, John Trumbull, George Bourne, William Lloyd Garrison, Jairus Lincoln, Hannah Townsend, Harriet Winslow, John Jay, David Cooper, George Washington, Joseph Sansom, Herman Melville, Edmund Quincy, William Hamilton, Lucretia Mott, George W. Clark, Jupiter Hammon, James Russell Lowell, Harriet Hamline Bigelow, Walt Whitman, Lydia Maria Francis Child, James Williams, James Gillespie Birney, William H. Seward, Martha Griffith Browne, Maria Weston Chapman, J.M. Eells, Abraham Lincoln, Emily Dickinson, David Humphreys, L.H. Sigourney, Samuel Sewall, Henry Bibb, Margaret Lucy Shands Bailey, James Forten, Wendell Phillips, William Cullen Bryant, Lunsford Lane, Timothy Dwight, Eliza Lee Follen, Absalom Jones, Thomas Mayne Reid, Philip Freneau, Jane Elizabeth Hitchcock Jones, Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton, Benjamin Franklin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Julia Ward Howe, Ann Evans, Moses Roper, John Quincy Adams

848 pages | first published 2012

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Bartleby and Benito Cereno

Herman Melville, Stanley Appelbaum

104 pages | first published 1855

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Bartleby the Scrivener

Herman Melville

80 pages

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Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Civil War Poems

James M. McPherson, Herman Melville, Helen Vendler

356 pages | first published 1866

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Benito Cereno

Herman Melville, Wyn Kelley

160 pages | first published 1855

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Benito Cereno, Bartleby: The Scrivener, and The Encantadas

Herman Melville

112 pages | first published 1855

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Billy Budd and Other Stories

Frederick Busch, Herman Melville

416 pages | first published 1853

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