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The Western Frontier


Connecting Text: The Autobiography of David Crockett

General Resources

 Lewis and Clark

 David Crockett

Davey Crockett: Bio and Selection

Handbook of Texas Online

Works on and by David Crockett

 



Early American Fiction
19th Century

Washington Irving
"The Devil and Tom Walker"

Washington Irving: Selections

James Fenimore Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans

Edgar Allan Poe Sites

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Poetry and Prose)

 

Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Works

Poertry
"The Raven"

"To Helen"

 

Transcendentalism

 

Walt Whitman

 

Anti-Transcndentalism: Hawthorne and Melville

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels and Short Stories

 

Hermman Melville
Moby Dick: a hypertext

Supplementary

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Sellections

Emily Dickinson

Visit The Emily Dickinson Museum

 

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman: Revising Himself This Library of Congress exhibition traces this evolution of Leaves of Grass and Walt Whitman's life, tapping a range of editions and drafts of the famous work. A wealth of interesting biographical material on Whitman, his friends and associates, his work as a teacher, tending the wounded during the Civil War, and for the federal government, also appears in the exhibit

Walt Whitman Archive The Walt Whitman Archive includes a host of versions of Whitman's Leaves of Grass, numerous poetry manuscripts witn a related guide, a detailed biography of Whitman, and a bibliography of articles, books, chapters of books and poems about Whitman published from 1975 to the present.

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain
"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

Regionalism--The WEST

Bret Harte
The Outcasts of Poker Flats
The Luck of Roaring Camp

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

Kate Chopin

Realism to Naturalism

Jack London
"To Build a Fire"
The Jack London Collection.- If you are a fan of the writings ofJack London, you will like this site.

Stephen Crane
"The Open Boat"

O'Henry Collection

 

Zane Grey

Dime Novels: American Treasures of the Library of Congress

Edith Wharton: Selections

Henry James: selected work

: Hypertext: "How the Other Half Lives" Social Reform in 19 Century America

 

Supplementary Photographs

20th Century

Ring Lardner

Sherwood Anderson
"Sophistication"
Sherwood Anderson

Ernest Hemingway,

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Katherine Anne Porter

Thomas Wolfe

Eudora Welty

John Steinbeck

 

William Faulkner
"The Bear"

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James Joyce is considered with William Faulkner to be the two greatest, experimental fiction writers in the first part of the twentieth century. An examination of Joyce's work will give readers an insight into Faulkner's influences.

Parody

 

Other American Writers

Willa Cather Homepage

The Sinclair Lewis Homepage

Ring Lardner's "You Know Me, Al"

H.P. Lovecraft: Collected Stories

 World Authors

Katherine Mansfield

Franz Kafka

Rudyard Kipling

Guy de Maupassant

H. H. Munro "Saki"

 

Early City Life-Sports

 

 

Early Horror

 

 

Connecting Text: The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitgerald and The Jazz Age

 

Connecting Text: The Sun Also Rises

The Lost Generation

 

Connecting Text: The Sound and the Fury

Extra: Mr. Ryan's Favorite Author, William Faulkner

Woody Gutherie

 

 

Harlem

Other Places to find the works of Langston Hughes.

Gumshoes

Raymond Chandler Links

 

 

Dashiel Hammett

 

 

Post Modern World War II-Present

 Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter-House Five

The Complete Kurt Voneggut

 

FLANNERY O'CONNOR

 

JOHN UPDIKE

JOYCE CAROL OATES

DONALD BARTHELME

LARRY McMURTY

Shirley Jackson Site Online

Modern American Theatre

Arthur Miller

The Crucible

Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard

 

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