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1537 HENRY ADAMS (1838-1918)
1541 The Education of Henry Adams
Chapter XXV: The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900)
1549 HENRY JAMES (1843-1916)
1553 from The Art of Fiction [Experience is Never Limited]
1554 from Preface to The American[Real and the Romantic]
1554 from Hawthorne [American Innocence Lost]
1554 Daisy Miller
1597 ALICE JAMES (1848-1892)
1598 The Diary of Alice James
[May 31, 1889]
[June 18, 1890]
[July 28, 1890]
[October 26, 1890]
1600 AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914)
1602 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
1609 Cultural Portfolio: Oral Traditions
and Turn-of the-century Literature
1611 FRANZ BOAS, ET. AL.
The Journal of American Folklore
On the Field and Work of a Journal of American Folk-Lore
1614 HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories
from The Minister's Housekeeper
1617 MARIETTA HOLLEY (JOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFE)
My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's
from A Day of Trouble
1618 EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWISH ORAL TRADITION
Yiddish Proverbs
1619 MARK TWAIN
How to Tell a Story
1622 OWEN WISTER
The Virginian
from Chapter 16: The Game and the Nation--Last Act