1. ANNE BRADSTREET The Prologue The Author to Her Book In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half Old. Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666 As Weary Pilgrim 2. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN From The Autobiography 3. WASHINGTON IRVING Rip Van Winkle 4. JAMES FENIMORE COOPER From The Pioneers 5. RALPH WALDO EMERSON From Self-Reliance 6. HENRY DAVID THOREAU From Walden 7. EDGAR ALLAN POE Ligeia The Cask of Amontillado 8. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Young Goodman Brown The Minister's Black Veil 9. HERMAN MELVILLE From Moby-Dick 10. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE From Uncle Tom's Cabin 11. FREDERICK DOUGLASS From My Bondage and My Freedom 12. WALT WHITMAN I Hear America Singing I Saw In Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing One's-Self I Sing Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking When Lilacs Last In the Dooryard Bloom'd 13. EMILY DICKINSON Poems (67, 214, 288,303,328, 435, 449, 465,632, 709, 712,1129) 14. MARK TWAIN From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 15. HENRY JAMES From Daisy Miller 16. SARAH ORNE JEWETT A White Heron 17. MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN Old Woman Magoun 18. STEPHEN CRANE The Open Boat 19. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN The Yellow Wall-Paper 20. KATE CHOPIN Desiree's Baby The Story of an Hour A Pair of Silk Stockings
