American Authors

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Please visit the sublinks in the left margin for pages on American authors covered in class this year. Also, please explore the links below, which are the gateway to tens of thousands of free books, short stories, and poems.

University of Virginia etext Center
The University of Virginia is graciously compiling signature works of American authors, which are free to the public. Most major works by nineteenth-century authors can be found here free of charge.

Project Gutenberg
This website contains one of the largest free collections of literature available. Here one may find nearly every major work of literature--American, British, or otherwise--that is out of copyright. Hint: Other countries have different copyright laws. Locate Project Gutenberg in Australia, for example, for free copies of literature still under U.S. copyright law.

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