Books Tagged ‘American’
The Memoirs, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas
Subject: Nonfiction
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, as Henry Steele Commager has said, “will illuminate, as does no comparable body of private papers, the whole course of our history from the 1760’...
Tags: American, Autobiography, Memoir
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Subject: Biography
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himsel...
Tags: American, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Biography, History
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Subject: Fiction
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitu...
Tags: American, Classics, Fiction, Historical
MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
Subject: Fiction
“It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships’ cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it.” So ...
Tags: American, Classics, Adventure, Novels, Historical
The Masque of the Red Death
Subject: Horror
“The Masque of the Red Death”, originally published as “The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy”, is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first...
Tags: American, Allan Poe, Horror, Gothic, Short Stories
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Subject: Fiction
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named am...
Tags: American, Childrens, Adventure, Young Adult