Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790)

from Autobiography

from Poor Richard's Almanack

Thomas Paine(1737-1809)

Downfall of Despotism

Philip Freneau(1752-1832)

To the Memory of the Brave Americans

The Wild Honey Suckle

Washington Irving(1783-1859)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

James Fenimore Cooper(1789-1851)

The Last of the Mohicans-Chapter XII

William Cullen Bryant(1794-1878)

To a Waterfowl

Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849)

To Helen

Alone

William Wilson

from The Philosophy of Composition

Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)

from Nature

The Rhodora

Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-1864)

Young Goodman Brown

The Scarlet Letter-Chapter II,Chpater XIX

Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862)

formResistance to Civil Government

Walden-Chapter II

Walt Whitman(1819-1892)

form Song of Myself

I Hear America Singing

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Blloom'd

formDemocratic Vistas

Herman Melville(1819-1891)

Moby Dick-Chapter CXXXV

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-1882)

An April Day

Footsteps of Angels

Hiawathw-V.Hiawatha's Fasting

John Greenleaf Whittier(1807-1892)

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

Ichabod

from　Snow-Bound

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

Uncle Tom's Cabin -Chapter XXXⅢ

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)

My Bondage and My Freedom -Chapter Ⅹ

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

67, 241, 449, 1129, 1732

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-Chapter XV,Chapter XIX

How to Tell a Story

from To the Person Sitting in Darkness

Bret Harte (1836-1902)

The Luck of Roaring Camp

William Dean Howells (1837-1920)

from　Novel-Writing and Novel-Reading

Henry Adams (1838-1918)

The Education of Henry Adams——Chapter IV

William James (1842-1910)

Pragmatism-Lecture Ⅱ

Henry　James (1843-1916)

from　The Art of Fiction

The Real Thing

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

The Applicant

Edward Bellamy (1850-1898)

Looking Backward-Chapter XXⅡ

Edwin Charles Markham (1852-1940)

The Man With the Hoe

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932)

The Sheriff's Children

Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)

The Return of a Private

O. Henry (1862-1910)

The Man Higher Up

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

The Age of Innocence-Chapter XVIII

George Santayana (1863-1952)

A Minuet On Reaching the Age of Fifty

from The Realms of Being

William E. B. DuBois (1868-1963)

Of Mr.　Booker T. Washington and Others

Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950)

Lucinda Matlock

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

Richard Cory

Miniver Cheevy

Frank Norris (1870-1902)

A Deal in Wheat

Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

The Red Badge of Courage-Chapter XXIV

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

Nigger Jeff

The Titan-Chapter Ⅺ

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

We Wear the Mask

Jack London (1876-1916)

What Life Means to Me

Martin Eden-Chapter XVII

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

The Jungle-Chapter V