By William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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The ten works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition by expressing their in anger, pain, sorrow, and courage.

Included in the volume: Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw; Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; The Confessions of Nat Turner; Narrative of the Lif…

Jack London: Novels and Stories (The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf, Klondike and Other Stories) (Library of America)
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Francis Parkman: France and England in North America (Pioneers of France in the New World, The Jesuits in North America, La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, The Old Regime in Canada) (Library of America)
Francis Parkman
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American Poetry: The Twentieth Century (e.e. cummings to May Swenson) (Library of America)
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Francis Parkman: France and England in North America (Count Frontenac, A Half-Century of Conflict, Montcalm and Wolfe) (Library of America)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tales and Sketches (Library of America)
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Literary Criticism: European Writers, Prefaces to the New York Edition (Library of America)
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Henry Adams: History of the United States of America During the Administrations of James Madison (Library of America)
Henry Adams
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Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (Library of America)
Herman Melville
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Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams (Library of America)
Henry Adams
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (Nature; Addresses, and Lectures, Essays: First and Second Series, Representative Men, English Traits, The Conduct of Life) (Library of America)
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Thomas Jefferson: Writings: Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters
Thomas Jefferson
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Prose and Poetry: Maggie, A Girl of the Streets, The Red Badge of Courage, Stories, Sketches, Journalism, The Black Riders and War Is Kind (Library of America)
Stephen Crane
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Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers (Library of America)
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Novels 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon (Library of America)
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Novels 1881-1886: Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians (Library of America)
Henry James
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Novels and Essays: Vandover and the Brute, McTeague, The Octopus, Essays (Library of America)
Frank Norris
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Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men (Library of America)
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Benjamin Franklin: Writings (The Autobiography, Poor Richard's Almanack, Bagatelles, Pamphlets, Essays, & Letters) (Library of America)
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