This a list of e-texts currently used in the “American Literature to 1900” course for English Philology in Spain. They can be interesting even for the casual reader, specially if you research a bit about the history that surrounded them. Drop a comment if a link dies or if you find a better edition.
- John Smith (1580-1631)
The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles - William Bradford (1590-1657)
History of Plymouth Plantation - Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672)
Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning
- Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637-1711)
Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson - Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Autobiography - Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-1797)
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself - Phillis Wheatley (c.1753-1784)
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral - Washington Irving (1783-1859)
The Alhambra - James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
The Last of the Mohicans - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Nature (also, a scanned original here) - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Walden - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
The Scarlet Letter - Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Moby Dick - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
A Psalm of Life (Evangeline) - Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
The Raven - Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself - Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Leaves of Grass - Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Poems - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Henry James (1843-1916)
Daisy Miller - Kate Chopin (1850-1904)
Désirée’s Baby (The Awakening and Selected Short Stories) - Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
The Open Boat
You can also check the links at the Wikipedia articles for each author, or search the Project Gutenberg for more works.


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