Rip Van Winkle
By: Washington Irving
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
What would you do if you met the Strange Men in the mountains? Would you dare to pass the haunted t…
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1. Life in the Iron Mills
By: Rebecca Harding Davis , Cecelia Tichi
3.42
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
NOTE: Includes a broad selection of historical and cultural documents plus the novella This defi… read more
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"Be just,—not like man's law, which seizes on one isolated fact, but like God's judging angel, whose clear, sad eye saw all the countless cankering days of this man's life."-Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills
2. The Minister's Black Veil
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.73
Format: 37 pages, Paperback
The sexton stood in the porch of Milford meeting-house, pulling busily at the bell-rope. The old pe… read more
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"The grass of many years has sprung up and withered on that grave, the burial-stone is mossgrown, and good Mr. Hooper’s face is dust; but awful is still the thought that it mouldered beneath the black…"-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister's Black Veil
"Mr. Hooper spent a long life, irreproachable in outward act, yet shrouded in dismal suspicions; kind and loving, though unloved, and dimly feared; a man apart from men, shunned in their health and jo…"-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister's Black Veil
3. Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution
By: Natalie S. Bober
4.23
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Abigail Adams is often referred to as the wife of one president and the mother of another. Rarely i… read more
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4. George Washington's World: Life Story of George Washington, A wonderful Narratives Explored by the writer
By: Joanna Foster , Genevieve Foster
4.05
Format: 357 pages, Paperback
1942 Newbery Honor Title The period measured by the life of George Washington, 1732 to 1799, was… read more
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5. The Story Book of Science
By: Jean-Henri Fabre
4.17
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
The wonders of plant and animal life told with rare literary charm by Uncle Paul in conversations w… read more
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6. The Storm
By: Kate Chopin
3.61
Format: 4 pages,
"The Storm" is a short story by the American writer Kate Chopin, written in 1898. It did not appear… read more
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7. Blue Hotel
By: Stephen Crane
3.56
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Nous sommes au bord de la voie ferrée, dans un hôtel du Nebraska, en 1898. C'est dans cet hôtel que… read more
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"Every sin is the result of a colaboration"-Stephen Crane, Blue Hotel
"This poor gambler isn’t even a noun. He is kind of an adverb."-Stephen Crane, Blue Hotel
8. A White Heron
By: Sarah Orne Jewett , Douglas Alvord
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
What is an individual's responsibility to nature? Does our desire to understand the world give us t… read more
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9. Rip Van Winkle
By: Washington Irving
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
What would you do if you met the Strange Men in the mountains? Would you dare to pass the haunted t… read more
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10. Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
By: Mary Rowlandson
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In February 1676, during King Philip's War, the frontier village of Lancaster, Massachusetts, was a… read more
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11. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
12. Minn of the Mississippi
By: Holling Clancy Holling
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
The history of the Mississippi River Valley is told in text and pictures through the adventures of … read more
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13. Desiree's Baby
By: Kate Chopin , None
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Audiobook
Kate Chopin was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly with a Louisiana Creole back… read more
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15. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
By: Ambrose Bierce
3.50
Format: 262 pages, ebook
The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his n… read more
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16. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
By: Mark Twain
4.75
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is a wild yarn involving a case of mistaken identi… read more
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17. Young Goodman Brown
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
Hawthorne's classic tale of a young Puritan's meeting with the Devil. read more
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18. The Fall of the House of Usher
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.87
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more
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"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
19. The Birthmark
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
The main character is a great scientist and lover of nature with a beautiful wife whom he loves dea… read more
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20. Rappaccini's Daughter
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
4.01
Format: 532 pages,
Part fairy tale, part Gothic horror story, "Rappaccini's Daughter" is an inspired tale of creation … read more
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21. A Walk Through the Glen
By: Anne E. White
4.18
Format: 135 pages, Kindle Edition
What was the unique value of Madam How and Lady Why that made it a staple of Charlotte Mason’s clas… read more
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