The American Collection, Vol. I: Foundations In Literature
Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Washington Irving, Walt Whitman, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Charles Brockden Brown, Herman Melville, Stephen Crane, Charles W. Chesnutt, Sarah Orne Jewett, Bret Harte, Kate Chopin, Edward Bellamy, Joel Chandler Harris, James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dudley Warner, Phillis Wheatley, George Washington Cable, Henry Adams, Horatio Alger Jr., Susanna Rowson, Harriet E. Wilson, John William De Forest, Harold Frederic, William Hill Brown, Gilbert Imlay, Fanny Fern, Elizabeth Stoddard, Maria Sedgwick