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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

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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

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Step into a richly illustrated guide that celebrates the breadth of American letters. The volume offers concise, story‑form sketches of the lives, homes, and habits of the nation’s most influential poets, novelists, critics, and humorists, punctuated by half‑tone portraits and photographs of their residences. Selections from each writer give listeners a taste of the language that helped shape the literary landscape.

Organized into themed sections, the anthology moves from towering 19th‑century poets to pioneering women novelists, from witty essayists to popular speakers for young audiences. Each entry blends biographical detail with a short excerpt, making it easy to hear both the person behind the pen and a representative slice of their work. Listeners will come away with a clearer sense of how diverse voices contributed to the evolving story of American culture.

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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 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

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~27 hours (1596K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: Monarch Book Company, 1897.

Credits

Richard Hulse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2022-12-23

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69620

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American literature PS