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Library of the best American literature: Containing the lives of our authors in story form, their portraits, their homes, and their personal traits, how they worked and what they wrote; choice selections from eminent writers, embracing great American poets and novelists, foremost women in American letters, distinguished critics and essayists, our national humorists, noted journalists and magazine contributors, popular writers for young people, great orators and public lecturers

Name: Library of the best American literature: Containing the lives of our authors in story form, their portraits, their homes, and their personal traits, how they worked and what they wrote; choice selections from eminent writers, embracing great American poets and novelists, foremost women in American letters, distinguished critics and essayists, our national humorists, noted journalists and magazine contributors, popular writers for young people, great orators and public lecturers
Author: William W. Birdsall

by William W. Birdsall

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Length: 17 chapters
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Explore the lives, homes, and personal traits of America's greatest authors alongside choice selections from poets, novelists, humorists, and orators who shaped the nation's literary heritage. Dive into the rich stories behind the words that define American letters.

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17 chapters in all. The first chapter is free to read with no account.

01Library of the Best American Literature · Ch.1Free

02INTRODUCTION.

03THE DISTINCTIVE PURPOSE AND PLAN OF THIS VOLUME.

04TABLE OF CONTENTS.

05FAMOUS AMERICAN AUTHORS.

06GREAT POETS OF AMERICA.

07OUR MOST NOTED NOVELISTS.

08FAMOUS WOMEN NOVELISTS.

09REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN POETS OF AMERICA.

10WELL-KNOWN ESSAYISTS, CRITICS AND SKETCH WRITERS.

11GREAT AMERICAN HISTORIANS AND BIOGRAPHERS.

12OUR NATIONAL HUMORISTS

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