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MASTERPIECES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

Great Authors--Classification--The World's Best Books. Scarlet Letter, Parkman's Histories, Motley's Dutch Republic, Grant's Memoirs, Franklin's Autobiography, Webster's Speeches, Lowell's Bigelow Papers, also his Critical Essays, Thoreau's Walden, Leaves of Grass (Whitman), Leather-stocking Tales (Cooper), Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, Ben Hur and Uncle Tom's Cabin. Next: TEN GREATEST AMERICAN POETS Previous: A GOOD LIBRARY Report Privacy SHARE BOOKMARK

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