American prose (1607-1865)
Walter C. Bronson (Editor)
Print Book, English, [1916]
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., [1916]
xi, 737 pages 20 cm
1825052
A True Relation; A Map of Virginia, by John Smith
Of Plymouth Plantation, by William Bradford
New English Canaan, by Thomas Morton
A Puritan to His Wife; The History of New England, by John Winthrop
The Sincere Convert, by Thomas Shepard
The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience, by Roger Williams
The Simple Cobler of Aggawam, by Nathaniel Ward
A Brief History of the Pequot War, by John Mason
A Narrative of the Captivity, by Mary Rowlandson
An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences, by Increase Mather
The Wonders of the Invisible World; Magnalia Christi Americana, by Cotton Mather
The Diary, by Samuel Sewall
The Journal, by Sarah K. Knight
History of the Dividing Line; A Progress to the Mines, by William Byrd
The Sweet Glory of God; Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God; Enquiry into the Freedom of the Will, by Jonathan Edwards
The Journal, by John Woolman
Letters from an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur
The Autobiography; The Way to Wealth; The Ephemera; Dialogue between Franklin and the Gout
Letters, by Benjamin Franklin
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, by John Dickinson
Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the Continental Congress, by Samuel Seabury A Pretty Story, by Francis Hopkinson
Speech in the Virginia Convention of Delegates, by Patrick Henry
Narrative of Col. Ethan Allen's Captivity, by Ethan Allen
Common Sense, by Thomas Paine
Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America, by Thomas Jefferson
Answer to Congress on His Appointment as Commander-in-Chief; To Mrs. Martha Washington; A Letter to the President of Congress; Farewell Address, by George Washington
The Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton
A History of New York; The Sketch book; Tales of a Traveller; The Alhambra, by Washington Irving
Descent Into the Maelstrom; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Purloined Letter, by Edgar Allan Poe
The American Scholar; The Over-Soul; Nature; Behavior, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Minister's Black Veil; Dr. Heidegger's Experiment; Rappaccini's Daughter; Feathertop: A Moralized Legend, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Walden, by Henry D. Thoreau
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Leaves from My Journal in Italy and Elsewhere at Sea; Abraham Lincoln; Carlyle, by James Russell Lowell
Speech on the Slavery Question, by John C. Calhoun
Constitution and the Union, by Daniel Webster
Address at Cooper Institute; Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery; Second Inaugural Address, by Abraham Lincoln