Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790)
from Autobiography
from Poor Richard's Almanack
Thomas Paine(1737-1809)
Downfall of Despotism
Philip Freneau(1752-1832)
To the Memory of the Brave Americans
The Wild Honey Suckle
Washington Irving(1783-1859)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
James Fenimore Cooper(1789-1851)
The Last of the Mohicans-Chapter XII
William Cullen Bryant(1794-1878)
To a Waterfowl
Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849)
To Helen
Alone
William Wilson
from The Philosophy of Composition
Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)
from Nature
The Rhodora
Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-1864)
Young Goodman Brown
The Scarlet Letter-Chapter II,Chpater XIX
Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862)
formResistance to Civil Government
Walden-Chapter II
Walt Whitman(1819-1892)
form Song of Myself
I Hear America Singing
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Blloom'd
formDemocratic Vistas
Herman Melville(1819-1891)
Moby Dick-Chapter CXXXV
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-1882)
An April Day
Footsteps of Angels
awatha's Fasting
John Greenleaf Whittier(1807-1892)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
Ichabod
from　Snow-Bound
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Uncle Tom's Cabin -Chapter XXXⅢ
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)
My Bondage and My Freedom -Chapter Ⅹ
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
67, 241, 449, 1129, 1732
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-Chapter XV,Chapter XIX
How to Tell a Story
from To the Person Sitting in Darkness
Bret Harte (1836-1902)
The Luck of Roaring Camp
William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
from　Novel-Writing and Novel-Reading
Henry Adams (1838-1918)
The Education of Henry Adams——Chapter IV
William James (1842-1910)
Pragmatism-Lecture Ⅱ
Henry　James (1843-1916)
from　The Art of Fiction
The Real Thing
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
The Applicant
Edward Bellamy (1850-1898)
Looking Backward-Chapter XXⅡ
Edwin Charles Markham (1852-1940)
The Man With the Hoe
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932)
The Sheriff's Children
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
The Return of a Private
O. Henry (1862-1910)
The Man Higher Up
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
The Age of Innocence-Chapter XVIII
George Santayana (1863-1952)
A Minuet On Reaching the Age of Fifty
from The Realms of Being
William E. B. DuBois (1868-1963)
Of Mr.　Booker T. Washington and Others
Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950)
Lucinda Matlock
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Richard Cory
Miniver Cheevy
Frank Norris (1870-1902)
A Deal in Wheat
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
The Red Badge of Courage-Chapter XXIV
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
Nigger Jeff
The Titan-Chapter Ⅺ
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
We Wear the Mask
Jack London (1876-1916)
What Life Means to Me
Martin Eden-Chapter XVII
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
The Jungle-Chapter V