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Young People's Story of American Literature

by Ida Prentice Whitcoomb Author

Living book on American literature

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Resource Type
Book
Print Status
In Print
Chapters
35
Suggested Grades
7th - 12th
Publisher
Dodd, Mead, and Company
Copyright
1936

Chapters

  • 1 The Evolution of the Book
  • 2 Beginnings of the Story
  • 3 Jamestown and Captain John Smith
  • 4 Other Writers of the Virginia Colony
  • 5 Pilgrim and Puritan Chroniclers
  • 6 Early Theologians
  • 7 Diarists and Poets
  • 8 Benjamin Franklin
  • 9 Revolutionary Leaders
  • 10 The Nation-Builders
  • 11 Glances Backward and Forward
  • 12 Washington Irving
  • 13 James Fenimore Cooper
  • 14 William Cullen Bryant
  • 15 Spasmodic Poems and Songs
  • 16 John Greenleaf Whittier
  • 17 War Literature
  • 18 Bancroft and Prescott
  • 19 Motley and Parkman
  • 20 New Influence in Puritan England
  • 21 Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • 22 Henry David Thoreau
  • 23 Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 24 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • 25 James Russell Lowell
  • 26 Oliver Wendall Holmes
  • 27 Edgar Allen Poe
  • 28 Other Southern Writers
  • 29 Western Literature
  • 30 A Group of Eastern Authors
  • 31 Woman in American Literature -- Part First
  • 32 Woman in American Literature -- Part Second
  • 33 Nature Lovers -- Essayist --Historians
  • 34 Novelists
  • 35 Poets

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