Includes classic selections from American Literature before 1900. Featured authors include Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Mary Rowlandson, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Herman Melville, among others.
The book is divided into 7 chapters, each covering a key era or theme in American Literature before 1900.
