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Anthologies  &  Literary  History

	"Short Story Masterpieces" [35 stories 1954] Edited by Robert Penn Warren & Albert Erskine Dell mass pb [3/54] for $7.99 includes tales by American & British authors, including Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, John Cheever, Stephen Crane, H.L. Davis, William Faulkner {"Barn Burning"}; F. Scott Fitzgerald {"Winter Dreams"}, Ernest Hemingway {"Soldier's Home"}, Henry James, James Joyce, Ring Lardner {"Liberty Hall"}, Carson McCuller, Irwin Shaw, John Steinbeck, (Brit) Elizabeth Taylor, James Thurber and others
	"The Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories" [1985] Edited by Burton Raffel Signet mass pb [11/2004] for $6.95 Signet mass pb [2/85] out of print/many used 33 of the finest short stories by Sherwood Anderson, Stephen Vincent Benet, Ambrose Bierce, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Rose Terry Cooke, Stephen Crane, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Harold Frederic, Mary E. Wilkens Freeman, Zona Gale, Hamlin Garland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, Washington Irving, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace Elizabeth King, Jack London, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, William Saroyan, F. Hopkinson Smith, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bayard Taylor, James Thurber, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton
	"Great American Short Stories" [1985] Edited by Wallace & Mary Stegner Dell mass pb [10/85] for $7.99 includes tales by Sherwood Anderson, Conrad Aiken, Ambrose Bierce, Hortense Calisher, Walter van Tilburg Clark, Stephen Crane, William Faulkner {"Wash”}, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Hamlin Garland, Bret Harte {"Tennessee’s Partner"}, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry {“A Municipal Report”}, Paul Horgan, Washington Irving {“Rip Van Winkle”}, Henry James, William March,, Herman Melville {"Bartleby The Scrivener”}, John O’Hara, Edgar Allan Poe {“The Fall of The House of Usher”}, Katherine Anne Porter, Wilbur Daniel Steele, John Steinbeck {“The Snake"}, James Thurber {“The Catbird Seat”}, Mark Twain {“Baker’s Bluejay Yarn”}, Eudora Welty &, Edith Wharton
	"American Short Story Masterpieces" [36 stories 1987] Edited by by Raymond Carver & Tom Jenks Dell mass pb [4/89] for $7.99 Delacorte Press hardcover [3/97] out of print/used includes tales by James Baldwin, Carol Bly, Vance Bourjaily, Richard Brautigan, Raymond Carver, E.L. Doctorow, Stanley Elkin, Mark Helprin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Bernard Malamud, Bobbie Ann Mason, Arthur Miller {"The Misfits"}, Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Grace Paley, Jayne Anne Phillips, David Quammen, Philip Roth, James Salter, Tobias Wolff and others
	"The Columbia Literary History of The United States" [1988] Edited by Emory Elliott Columbia Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [4/88] for $144.50
	"The Norton Book of American Short Stories" [1988] Edited by Peter S. Prescott W.W. Norton 9x6¼ hardcover [11/88] for $29.95 includes tales by Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, Max Apple, Toni Cade Bambara, Donald Barthelme, Ambrose Bierce, Richard Brautigan, James M. Cain, Erskine Caldwell, George W. Carle, Raymond Carver, Willa Cather, John Cheever, Kate Chopin, Frank Conroy, Robert Coover, Stephen Crane, Stanley Elkin, William Faulkner {"Wash"}, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Flanagan, Richard Ford, Benjamin Franklin, Mary Wilkins Freeman, William H. Gass, Ellen Gilchrist, Joel Chandler Harris, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Helprin, Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, Langston Hughes, Washington Irving {"The Devil and Tom Walker"}, Shirley Jackson, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Ring Lardner, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jack London, Anita Loos, Bernard Malamud, Michael Martone, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O'Conner, John O'Hara, Tillie Olson, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Dorothy Parker, Jayne Anne Phillips, Katherine Anne Porter, J.F. Powers, Irwin Shaw, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jean Stafford, Tess Slesinger, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Charlotte Perkins Stetson, James Thurber, Jean Toomer, Mark Twain, John Updike, Alice Walker, Jerome Weidman, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton {"Pomegranate Seed"}, and Marianne Wiggins
	"The Columbia History of The American Novel: New Views" [31 essays 1991] Edited by Emory Elliott Columbia Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [4/91] for $105.50
	"The Black 100: A Ranking of The Most Influential African-Americans, Past and Present" [orig 1993, rev 1998] by Colombus Salley Beyond the obvious – Martin Luther King, Jr. #1 & Frederick Douglass #2 – Afro-American artists & entertainers who made this list include Paul Robeson #24, Langston Hughes #34, Alex Haley #48, James Baldwin #49, Richard Wright #50, Zora Neale Hurston #52, Bill Cosby #62, Duke Ellington #67, Louis Armstrong #68, Toni Morrison #73, Lorraine Hansberry #77, Oscar Micheaux #81, Maya Angelou #85, Dick Gregory #88, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis #91, Harry Belafonte #92 & Marian Anderson #94 Citadel Press 9x6 pb [rev 1/98] for $18.21 Citadel Press hardcover [2/93] out of print/used
	"The Modern American Novel: New Revised Edition" [1993] by Malcolm Bradbury Penguin 7¾x5 pb [3/94] for $18.00 Viking hardcover [4/93] out of print/used
	"The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories" [33 stories 1994] Edited by Tobias Wolff Vintage 8x5¼ pb [9/94] for $10.85 includes tales by Dorothy Allison, Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Carol Bly, Scott Bradfield, Kate Braverman, Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, Stuart Dybek, Richard Ford, Mary Gaitskill, Allan Gurganus, Barry Hannah, Ron Hansen, Denis Johnson, Edward P. Jones, Thom Jones, Jamaica Kincaid, John L'Heureux, Ralph Lombreglia, Leonard Michaels, Tim O'Brien, Joyce Carol Oates, Chris Offutt, Robert Olmstead, Jayne Anne Phillips, Susan Power, Mona Simpson, Robert Stone, Amy Tan, Stephanie Vaughn, John Edgar Wideman & Joy Williams
	"The Oxford Companion To American Literature" [orig 1982, rev 1996] by James D. Hart, revisions by Phillip W. Leininger Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6¾ 6th edition pb [10/95] for $15.00 Oxford Univ Press 9¼x7½ 5th edition hardcover [10/83] out of print/many used
	"The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970" [50 stories 2007] Edited by Lex Williford & Michael Martone Touchstone 9x6 pb [12/2007] for $13.60 includes tales by Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert Olen Butler, Sandra Cisneros, Peter Ho Davies, Janet Desaulneirs, Junot Díaz, Anthony Doerr, Stuart Dybek, Deborah Eisenberg, Richard Ford, Mary Gaitskill, Dagoberto Gilb, Ron Hansen, A.M. Homes, Mary Hood, Denis Johnson, Edward P. Jones, Thom Jones, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, David Leavitt, Kelly Link, Reginald McKnight, David Means, Susan Minot, Rick Moody, Bharati Mukherjee, Antonya Nelson, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, Daniel Orozco, Julie Orringer, Z.Z. Packer, E. Annie Proulx, Stacey Richter, George Saunders, Joan Silber, Leslie Marmon Silko, Susan Sontag, Amy Tan, Melanie Rae Thon, Alice Walker & Steve Yarbrough
	"How Fiction Works" [2008] by James Wood (New Yorker Magazine book critic) Picador pb [7/2009] for $10.29 FS&G 7½x5½ hardcover [7/2008] for $14.40
	"The Spoken Word: American Writers" [2008] compiled by Richard Fairman The British Library audio CD set [10/2008] 3 disks for $23.10 interviewees include James Baldwin, Pearl Buck, Raymond Chandler (interviewed by Ian Fleming), Ralph Ellison, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lillian Hellman, Sinclair Lewis, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill (reading from "Long Day's Journey Into Night"), Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck (on "The Grapes of Wrath"), and Tennessee Williams
	"A New Literary History of America, 1507 to 2008" [2009] Edited by Greil Marcus & Werner Sollors Belknap Press/Harvard 10x6½ hardcover [9/2009] for $32.97 official book site
	"American Fantastic Tales: Terror and The Uncanny From Poe To The Pulps" [2009] Edited by Peter Straub Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/2009] for $23.10 44 stories from 1805 to 1939 by authors including Stephen Vincent Benet, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Bloch, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, August Derleth, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lafcadio Hearn, Robert E. Howard, Washington Irving, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, H.P. Lovecraft, Herman Melville, Frank Norris, Edgar Allen Poe & Edith Wharton
	"American Fantastic Tales: Terror and The Uncanny From The 1940s Until Now" [2009] Edited by Peter Straub Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/2009] for $23.10 47 stories from 1940 to 2007 by authors including Charles Beaumont, Jerome Bixby (3), Anthony Boucher, Paul Bowles, Ray Bradbury, Truman Capote, Michael Chabon, John Cheever, Harlan Ellison, Jack Finney, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King (2), Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson, Vladimir Nabakov, Joyce Carol Oates, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Peter Straub & Tennessee Williams

"American Fantastic Tales" Boxed Set [2009]  
Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover set [10/2009] 2 volumes for $44.10

Early  American  Authors

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Horatio Alger, Jr. [1832-99]
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Horatio Alger Society [est. 1961]

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Edward Bellamy [1850-98]
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"Looking Backward, 2000-1887" [1888] A young man wakes up in the year 2000, in a socialist utopian America. Bellamy's predictions include credit cards, warehouse clubs, and media delivered to the home by 'cable telephone'. Digireads 8¾x6 pb [2005] for $5.49 BiblioLife 97frac12x6¼ hardcover [8/2008] for $23.99 book entry at Wikipedia

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Spirit of America Bookstore's
Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82] Page

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures [1983] Edited by Joel Porte Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [11/83] for $23.10 Ralph Waldo Emerson: Collected Poems and Translations [1994] Edited by Harold Bloom & Paul Kane Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [8/94] for $25.55 Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays & Poems [1996] Edited by Harold Bloom & Paul Kane Library of America College Editions pb [5/96] for $15.95

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Joel Chandler Harris [1848-1908]: browse books
+ Uncle Remus: website • 1946 Disney movie: credits at IMDb

Wren's Nest {Joel Chandler Harris Home; built 1870} National Historical Landmark

	"Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus and The 'Cornfield Journalist': The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris" [2000] by Walter M. Brasch Mercer Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [11/2000] for $35.00
	"The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus" [ages 9-12; 1955] by Joel Chandler Harris, compiled by folklorist Richard Chase Houghton Mifflin 9½x6¼ hardcover [5/2002] for $23.10 Houghton Mifflin 8½x6 hardcover [9/55] out of print/used

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Bret Harte [1836-1902]
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Great Lit Online • Gutenberg etexts

Zpub's Bret Harte webpage

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Lafcadio Hearn [1850-1904]
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ST's Lafcadio Hearn fansite

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O. Henry {Wm. S. Porter 1862-1910} Pages

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Jack London [1876-1916]

"Much of London's work is scamped and unconvincing. But he produced at least six volumes which deserve to stay in print, and that is not a bad achievement from a life of only forty years."   — George Orwell (circa 1948)

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Jack London State Historic Park in Glen Ellen, CA
The World of Jack London
JM's Jack London fansite
Jack London Square historic district in Oakland, CA
Jack London papers at Sonoma State University
Jack London International Society {English or German} [est. 1999]

	Jack London: Novels and Stories [1982] Edited by Donald Pizer Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [11/82] for $23.10 includes "Call of The Wild" [1903], "The Sea-Wolf" [1904] and "White Fang" [1906] Jack London: Novels and Social Writings [1982] Edited by Donald Pizer Library of America 8x5½ hardcover [11/82] for $26.00 includes "The People of The Abyss" [1903], "The Road" [1907], "The Iron Heel" [1908 novel], "Martin Eden" [1909 novel] and "John Barleycorn" [1913]
	"War of The Classes" [1905] by Jack London Synergy Intl 8x5 pb [11/2000] for $13.97 IndyPublish 9x6 pb [1/2003] for $17.99 IndyPublish 9x6 hardcover [1/2003] for $22.99 Quiet Vision CD-ROM [7/99] for $5.98
	"The Iron Heel" [1908] by Jack London A visionary novel about class struggle that anticipates the political upheavals of the 1930s and beyond Lawrence Hill 8.4x5.4 pb [1/81] for $9.71 Wildside Press 8¾x6½ hardcover [9/2003] for $18.95 Quiet Vision CD-ROM [7/99] for $5.98

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Herman Melville [1819-91]
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Herman Melville: "Typee", "Omoo", "Mardi" [1982] Edited by G. Thomas Tanselle Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [5/82] for $26.40 includes South Pacific tales "Typee" [1846], "Omoo" [1847] and "Mardi" [1849] Herman Melville: "Redburn", "White-Jacket", "Moby-Dick" [1983] Edited by G. Thomas Tanselle Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [4/83] for $26.4 includes Atlantic sea tales "Redburn" [1849], "White-Jacket" [1850] and "Moby-Dick, or The Whale" [1851] Herman Melville: "Pierre", "Israel Potter", "The Piazza Tales", "The Confidence-Man", "Billy Budd", Uncollected Prose [1985] Edited by G. Thomas Tanselle Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [4/85] for $29.70 includes "Pierre" [1852], "Israel Potter" [1856], "The Piazza Tales" [1856], "The Confidence-Man" [1857], and "Billy Budd, Sailor" [1924] Herman Melville: Moby Dick, Billy Budd and Other Writings [2000] Edited by G. Thomas Tanselle Library of America College Editions 8x5 pb [8/2000] for $13.25 includes "Moby-Dick" [1851], "Billy Budd, Sailor" [1924], stories "Bartleby, The Scrivener" & "The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles" [1856], an essay on Hawthorne, and 21 poems

"Moby Dick" [1956] Directed by John Huston; script by Ray Bradbury, John Huston & Norman Corwin, based on the epic 1851 novel by Herman Melville; starring Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, Royal Dano & Orson Welles MGM/UA DVD [6/2001] for $16.99 MGM/UA VHS video [8/99] for $13.99 full credits from IMDb

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Frank Norris [1870-1902]
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	"Norris: Novels and Essays" [1986] Edited by Donald Pizer Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/86] out of print/many used includes "McTeague" [1899], "The Octopus" [1901], "Vandover and the Brute" [1914], and 22 essays
	"McTeague: A Story of San Francisco" [1899 classic novel] by Frank Norris A San Francisco dentist woos and marries his best friend's girl. She wins the lottery and her jealous ex-boyfriend turns the dentist in for having no license to practice. Signet mass pb [8/2003] for $7.95 W.W. Norton 8½x5¼ pb critical text [11/96] for $12.80 entry about the book at Wikipedia
	"Greed" silent film masterpiece [M.G.M. Dec 1924] This legendary 'lost film' was delivered at ten hours length (42 reels of film); the studio forced Stroheim to make drastic cuts; he cut it down to four hours. The displeased studio then took control and released a 2-hour & 20-minute version, which failed at the box office. The excised negatives and exposed film were destroyed, perhaps as late as the 1950s. The Turner restoration makes use of still photos & historical script continuity. Co-written & directed by Erich von Stroheim; based on the novel "McTeague"; starring Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Dale Fuller, Tempe Pigott, Sylvia Ashton, Chester Conklin & Joan Standing; listed on the National Film Registry in 1991 not available on DVD; Turner 4-hr restoration b&w VHS [9/98] 2 tapes - out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • film entry at Wikipedia more details on von Stroheim's "Greed" 1924 Movie Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
	"McTeague: An Opera" [P.B.S. 1992] Commissioned by the Lyric Opera of Chicago & performed in 1992; co-written & directed by Robert Altman [1925-2006]; composed by William Bolcom, libretto co-written by Arnold Weinstein; starring Ben Heppner, Catherine Malfitano & Timothy Nolen filmed for broadcast on PBS • video/DVD not available • full credits at IMDb composer's "McTeague" page "The Real McTeague" tv program [WNEW/PBS May 1993] Directed by Robert Altman; narrated by Studs Terkel; video/DVD not available • credits at IMDb
	"The Octopus: A Story of California" [1901 novel] by Frank Norris The classic historical novel of the decade-long ruthless & bloody battle between the railroad monopoly and the outmatched farmers of California. Dover 5¼x8 pb [12/2003] for $8.95 Penguin 7¾x5 pb [8/94] for $14.95 Penguin 7¾x5 pb [10/86] out of print/used Indypublish 6x9 hardcover [9/2002] for $22.99 Bentley hardcover [6/71] out of print/used
	"The Pit: A Story of Chicago" [1903 novel] by Frank Norris Love vs. speculation on the Chicago commodities market; "...as topical as the internet bubble"; "... shows that greed has always been the driving force in our American economy." Kessinger 9x6 pb [6/2004] for $31.95 Penguin 7¾x5 pb [8/94] out of print/many used North Books 8x5½ hardcover [1/2003] for $26.99 Robert Bentley 8½x6 hardcover [6/71] out of print/used
	"The Art of Frank Norris, Storyteller" [1988] by Barbara Hochman Univ MO Press 8¾z5¾ hardcover [8/88] out of print/used Univ MO Press 8¾z5¾ hardcover [8/88] out of print/used
	"Frank Norris: A Life" [2006] by Joseph R. McElrath, Jr. & Jesse S. Crisler Univ IL Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [1/2006] for $31.00

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Edgar Allen Poe [1809-49]
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Poe Museum [est. 1922] in Richmond, VA
Qrisse's Edgar Allen Poe fansite
Edgar Allen Poe Society of Baltimore, MD [est. 1923]
online text of "The Raven"
Gutenberg texts

	Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales [1984] Edited by Patrick F. Quinn Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [8/84] for $24.75 Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and Reviews [1984] Edited by G. R. Thompson Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [8/84] for $31.50 Poe: Poetry, Tales & Selected Essays [1996] Edited by Patrick F. Quinn & G. R. Thompson Library of America College Editions 7¾x5 pb [10/96] for $16.10
	"Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe" [1966] Doubleday 8¼x5¾ hardcover [8/84] for $15.61 Doubleday hardcover [1/66] out of print/many used

"The Raven" [set for 2011? release]  
Set in Baltimore, Maryland in 1849; a serial killer is using the works of Edgar Allen Poe as backdrop
for his crimes; Poe and a young detective try to prevent the killer's next murder.
Directed by James McTeigue; script by Hannah Shakespeare & Ben Livingston; starring John Cusack
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • latest info at IMDb

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Spirit of America Bookstore's
Henry David Thoreau [1817-62] Page

Henry David Thoreau: "A Week On The Concord and Merrimack Rivers", "Walden, or Life In The Woods", "The Maine Woods", "Cape Cod" [1985] Edited by Robert F. Sayre Library of America 8x5½ hardcover [9/85] for $23.10 includes books "A Week On The Concord and Merrimack Rivers" [1849], "Walden, or Life In The Woods" [1854], "The Maine Woods" [1864] and "Cape Cod" [1865] Henry David Thoreau: Collected Essays and Poems [2001] Edited by Elizabeth Hall Witherell Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [4/2001] for $23.10 Thoreau: "Walden", "Maine Woods", Essays & Poems [2007] Edited by Robert F. Sayre & Elizabeth Hall Witherell Library of America College Editions 7¾x5 pb [6/2007] for $17.95

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Mark Twain {Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835-1910}
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The Year of Mark Twain 2010
Mark Twain Boyhood Home [resident 1839-53] & Museum in Hannibal, MO
Hannibal [MO] C.V.B.
Mark Twain House and Museum [resident 1874-91] in Hartford, Connecticut
Stormfield House [resident 1900-1910] in Redding, Connecticut
Mark Twain papers at UC Berkeley
Mark Twain Quotations Page at Working Minds

	"Mark Twain Tonight!" [CBS-TV 1967] one-man stage performance on video: directed by Paul Bogart; starring Hal Holbrook Kultur Video color DVD [11/99] for $26.99 Kultur Video color VHS [4/97] for $23.70 full credits at IMDb • Broadway credits at IBDb
	Mark Twain: Mississippi Writings [1982] Edited by Guy Cardwell Library of America hardcover [11/82] for $23.10 includes "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" [1876], "Life On The Mississippi" [1883], "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" [1884] & "Pudd'nhead Wilson" [1894] Mark Twain: Historical Romances [1994] Edited by Susan K. Harris Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [8/94] for $25.55 includes "The Prince and The Pauper" [1882], "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" [1889], "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" [1896] Mark Twain: "The Gilded Age" and Later Novels [2002] Edited by Hamlin L. Hill Library of America hardcover [1/2002] for $26.40 includes "The Gilded Age" [1873], "The American Claimant" [1892], "Tom Sawyer Abroad" [1894], "Tom Sawyer, Detective" [1896], "No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger [1916] Mark Twain: 1869 "The Innocents Abroad" & 1872 "Roughing It" [1984] Edited by Guy Cardwell Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [1/84] for $23.10 Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays, 1852–1890 [1992] Edited by Louis J. Budd Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [10/92] for $29.20 Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays, 1891-1910 [1992] Edited by Louis J. Budd Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [10/92] for $26.40
	Mark Twain: "Huck Finn", "Pudd'nhead Wilson", "No. 44, Mysterious Stranger" & Other Writings [2000] Edited by Louis J. Budd & Guy Cardwell Library of America College Editions 6¾x5 pb [8/2000] for $12.95 includes novels "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" [1884], "Pudd'nhead Wilson" [1894], "No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger" [1916], two stories, and a selection of biting essays
	"The Works of Mark Twain" for Kindle [2004] includes over 200 stories, novels, essays & speeches Kindle Edition from Packard Technologies [4/2004] for $9.99
	"Classic American Literature: 24 Books by Mark Twain" for Kindle [2008] Kindle Edition from B&R Samizdat Express [8/2008] for $0.99 "in a single file with active table of contents"; contains 8 novels: "The Gilded Age" [1873], "Tom Sawyer" [1876], "The Prince & The Pauper" [1882], "Huckleberry Finn" [1884], "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" [1889], "The American Claimant" [1892], "Pudd'nhead Wilson" [1894], and "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" [1896]; 5 book-length collections of stories; 11 individual stories, including "Tom Sawyer Abroad" [1894] & "Tom Sawyer, Detective" [1896]; six travel books & memoirs: Mark Twain's speeches and letters; and 3 book-length collections of essays

"Mark Twain's America" [1932] by Bernard DeVoto
"Mark Twain in Eruption" [1940] by Bernard DeVoto
"Mark Twain at Work" [1942] by Bernard DeVoto
"The Portable Mark Twain" [1946] Edited by Bernard DeVoto

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Spirit of America Bookstore's
Walt Whitman [1819-92] Page

Walt Whitman: Selected Poems [2003] Edited by Harold Bloom 47 works by the "greatest of all American poets" LoA/American Poets Project 7¾x5 hardcover [1/2003] for $15.60 Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose [1996] Edited by Justin Kaplan Library of America College Editions 7¾x5 pb [5/96] for $17.05 includes "Leaves of Grass", 17 other poems, and 'his complete prose'

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