Short Stories

Early American Fiction

19th Century

Washington Irving
"The Devil and Tom Walker"

Washington Irving: Selections

James Fenimore Cooper

Edgar Allan Poe Sites

Edgar Allan Poe: Tales and Criticism-a hypertext of Poe's work
Poe Museum: Life
Poe's Selected Works
Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Works
Edgar Allan Poe: Etext
Poe Stories
Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site (This is a nice site where you can take a virtual tour of Old Philadelphia. Check out the map and click on the taverns to which Poe might be referring in his story, "The Black Cat." )
Edgar Allan Poe: Tales and Criticism-a hypertext of Poe's work
About Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, the author lesson from Cyber Guides
The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

Poe Chronology: from the Poe Society in Baltimore.
Poe, Drugs and Alcohol

Edgar Allan Poe: In his time.
Poe's Literary Neighborhood This site includes articles and stories written by Poe's contemporaries, offering many works published in the magazines related to Poe.
Edgar Allan Poe: Online Rutgers resources

Transcendentalism

Anti-Transcndentalism: Hawthorne and Melville

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels and Short Stories

Hermman Melville
Moby Dick: a hypertext

Supplementary

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Sellections

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson: Selections
Emily Dickinson's Online Archive
Emily Dickinson Electronic Archives This site focuses on the work of Emily Dickinson, her writing practices, writings directly influencing her work, and critical and creative writings generated by her work.
"'Hope' is the thing with feathers--"
"There is a certain Slant of light--"
"A narrow Fellow in the Grass"
"Because I could not stop for Death--"
"The Bustle in a House"

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 in his Times: University of Virginia
Mark Twain: PBS--A Film by Ken Burns
Mark Twain: Selections
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn e-text

Mark Twain
"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

Regionalism--The WEST

Bret Harte

Ambrose Bierce selected works

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.
The Call of the Wild
White Fang
The Sea Wolf
More Jack London

Stephen Crane

O'Henry Collection

Zane Grey

Riders of the Purple Sage

Dime Novels: American Treasures of the Library of Congress

Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls: Stanford
Dime Novel Cover Art Gallery
Harvey, Charles M.. "The Dime Novel in American Life" Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library (1907)

Edith Wharton: Selections

Henry James: selected work

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

Supplementary Photographs

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.

General Resources
Supplementary Resources PAL: Perspectives in American Literature Critical Approaches to Literature Our Documents: 100 Important Milestone Documents Archives of Important Documents 1800-1899 American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States Top 100 American Speeches of the 20th Century Important Speeches of the 21st Century Pulitzer Prizes Nobel Prizes American Authors Hypertexts English Online Holding at E-text Center U-Virginia C-Span's American Writers Series A Brief Timeline of American Literature and Culture Plagiaarist Poetry List American Literature on the Web	Favorites Faulkner at Virginia (audio) Southern Literature Links The Idea of the South: an article Documenting the American South First Person Narratives of the American South Faulkner Sites in Oxford Mississippi-Map Investigate the sense of place: Faulkner Faulkner Maps Faulkner Literary Map More Yoknapatawpha Maps The Great Gatsby and the Significance of Setting F. Scott Fitzgerald Maps The Harlem Renaissance Map Moby Dick Literary Map
Short Stories	Poetry
Classic Short Stories: Authors Classic Short Stories: by title The Classic Reader: Short Stories American Literature: The Short Story Library Hypertexts Twenty Great American Short Stories Early American Fiction Wikipedia List of Short Story Authors The English Server: Short Fiction Famous Short Stories—Online collections H. G. Wells Short Stories Rudyard Kipling Short Stories Dime Novels Dime Novels: Selected Texts Dime Novels from the Library of Congress	The Academy of American Poetry: Poetry Selections The American Verse Project Modern American Poetry Home-- Good source of biography and criticism. American Poems American Poems: Poets MIT's Internet Classics Archive - a searchable collection of over 400 classical Greek and Latin texts (in English translation) Poems of Acclaim 70 famous poems Baseball and Writing: Mariane Moore A Boy Juggling a Soccer Ball
Selected Favorite Short Stories H. G. Wells The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogal A Passion in the Desert by Honoré de Balzac The Monkey's Paw The Thieves Who Couldn't Stop Sneezing Thomas Hardy The Three Strangers Thomas Hardy The Body Snatcher Robert Louis Stevenson The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde A Thousand Deaths Jack London They Rudyard Kipling The Dead James Joyce The Works of H. P. Lovecraft A Christmas Story from Charles Dickens's Readings The Lady's Maid's Bell by Edith Wharton The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling's Short Stories Rudyard Kipling's Poems The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling John G. Niehardt: Poet of the American West

General Resources
The Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth Pioneers/Western Expansion Exploring the West from Monticello Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia: a good collection of diaries, journals and other primary source documents. There are some interesting descriptions of the contents but no real excerpts. Early American Paintings: Hudson River School: Early Landscapes American Romanticism in Literature: an Introduction
Lewis and Clark	David Crockett
The Journals of Lewis and Clark "Nature and the American Identity," an essay on Romanticism in art and folklore. New Perspectives on the American West: Ken Burns Ken Burns: National Parks--America's Best Idea (PBS) The American West	Davey Crockett: Bio and Selection Davey Crockett: from the American West Davy Crockett Timeline Daniel Boone: from the American West Daniel Boone: from Archiving Early America (read Boone's own narrative)

English 1818/American Studies

Short Stories

Selected Profiles of Authors and Literary Movements

Edgar Allan Poe Sites

Supplementary Photographs

Other American Writers

Sam Shepard