This is the complete text of the novel The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

This is the complete text of the novel Dickory Cronke by Daniel Defoe including a preface and an epitaph.

This is the complete text of the novel Do and Dare by Horatio Alger

This is the complete text of the novel Eben Holden: A Tale of the North Country by Irving Bacheller including a preface.

This is the complete text of the novel Driven From Home by Horatio Alger.

This is the complete text of the novel The Drums Of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath.

This is the complete text of the detective novel The Ear in the Wall by Arthur B. Reeve.

This is the complete text of the novel The Ears of Twenty Americans by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

This is the complete text of the Christian novel The Earth Trembled by Edward Payson Roe.

This is the full text of the novel The Exploits of Elaine by Arthur B. Reeve. The scientific detective known as the "American Sherlock Holmes" pursues a ruthless arch villain in this high-stakes suspense novel.

This is the full text of the novel The Eyes of the World by Harold Bell Wright, an early 20th century western.

This is the full text of the novel The Filigree Ball: Being a Full and True Account of the Solution of the Mystery Concerning the Jeffrey-Moore Affair (1903) by Anna Katarine Green, known as "the mother of the detective novel".

This introduction to Romantic literature focuses on the learning outcomes of the study of various pieces of American Romantic literature. These include describe the major historical and cultural developments of the Romantic period,...

This lesson focuses on the Romantic Period's essayists and poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, the Brahmin Poets, and more.

Use the text and the video "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant to identify and understand the characteristics of American Romanticism.

Use the text excerpt and video "Wakefield" by Nathaniel Hawthorne to identify and understand the characteristics of American Romanticism.

Use the text and video excerpt of "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman to identify and understand the characteristics of American Romanticism. "Song of Myself" is a poem by Walt Whitman that is included in his work Leaves of Grass. It has...

This is the text and video reading of the poem "The Indian Burying Ground" by Philip Morin Freneau, an American poet, nationalist (also known as Federalist), polemicist, sea captain, and newspaper editor sometimes called the "Poet of the...

This is an excerpt of the text and an audio book of the full text of the novella The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

This is the text and audio of the poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, a narrative poem first published in January 1845, and is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere.

This article features a brief history of American literature.

This article focuses on the Second Great Awakening and Transcendentalism in America. It looks at the relationship between religion and politics.

This is the text of the essay "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Transcendentalism suggests that the divine, or God, suffuses...

"The American Scholar" is a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson on August 31, 1837, to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was invited to speak in recognition of his groundbreaking work "Nature" in which he...