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This is a collection of electronic texts written by US authors
or widely read by Americans in the Gilded Age (loosely defined here as
1866-1901).
I asssign these as primary sources for William
and Mary students doing projects in my postbellum US history courses.
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Scott Nelson srnels@facstaff.wm.edu
Adams, Henry (1838-1918)
Democracy (1880)
Alcott, Amos
Bronson (1799-1888)
Ralph
Waldo Emerson: An Estimate of his Character and Genius: in Prose and Verse
Alcott, Louisa
May (1832-1888)
Flower
Fables(1854)
Little
Women (1869)
Good
Wives (by chapter)
Aldrich, Thomas
Bailey (1836-1907)
The
Sisters' Tragedy, with Other Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic (189?)
Alger, Horatio
(1832-1899)
The
Cash Boy(1900)
Paul
Prescott's Charge: A Series for Boys (18??)
Paul
the Peddler, or the Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant (18??)
Struggling
Upward
Bierce, Ambrose
(1842-1914?)
Can
Such Things Be? (1893)
The Devil's
Dictionary (1881-1906)
Fantastic
Fables (1899)
My
Favorite Murder
An
Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge (1891)
Baum, L. Frank
(1856-1919)
The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz (1900)
Bowles, Samuel
(1826-1878)
Our
New West (1869)
Cable, George
Washington (1844-1925)
Old
Creole Days (1879)
Carnegie,
Andrew (1835-1919)
Wealth (1889)
Chesnutt,
Charles Waddell (1858-1932)
The
Bouquet (1899)
The
Colonel's Dream (1905)
The
Conjure Woman (and other stories) (1899)
The
Goophered Grapevine (1887)
Her
Virginia Mammy
The
House Behind the Cedars (1900) (by chapter)
Dave's
Neckliss (1889)
Hot-Foot
Hannibal (1899)
Po'
Sandy (1888)
The
Wife of His Youth (1898)
Chopin, Kate
(1851-1904)
The Awakening
& Selected Short Stories
A
Night in Acadie (1897)
Ozeme's
Holiday (1896)
Regret
(1895)
Clark, John
Bates (1847-1928)
Distribution
as Determined by a Law of Rent (1890-90)
Cleveland,
Grover (1837-1908)
First
Inaugural Address (1885)
Second
Inaugural Address (1893)
Collins, Wilkie
(1824-1889)
The New
Magdalen (1873)
Crane, Stephen
(1871-1900)
The Blue Hotel (1899)
Maggie,
A Girl of the Streets (1893)
The Red Badge of Courage
(1895)
War is Kind and Other Lines
(1899)
Davis, Richard
Harding (1864-1916)
The
Princess Aline (1895)
Soldiers
of Fortune (1897)
De Leon, Daniel
(1852-1914)
Reform
or Revolution? (1896)
What
Means This Strike? (1898)
de Maupassant,
Guy (1850-1893)
Short
Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life (1903)
Dickinson,
Emily (1830-1886)
Poems
(second series) (1891)
Poems (third
series) (1896)
Du Bois, WEB
(1868-1963)
The
Freedmen's Bureau (1901)
The Souls of Black
Folk (1903)
Emerson, Ralph
Waldo (1803-1882)
The Conduct of Life (1870)
Field, Eugene
(1850-1895)
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
Frederic,
Harold (1856-1898)
The
Damnation of Theron Ware (1896)
Garland, Hamlin
(1860-1940)
"Under
the Lion's Paw" from Main-Travelled Roads
Gaskell, Elizabeth
(1810-1865)
Selected
Contributions to Frasers (1865)
Garfield James
A.(1831-1881)
Inaugural
Address(1881)
George, Henry
(1839-1897)
Progress and Poverty (1879)
[abridged]
Grahame, Kenneth
(1859-1931)
The
Golden Age (1895)
Grant, Ulysses
S (1822-1885)
First
Inaugural Address (1869)
Second
Inaugural Address (1873)
Gregory, Eliot
The
Ways of Men (1897)
Worldly
Ways And Byways
Guiney, Louise
Imogen (1861-1920)
A Roadside
Harp: A Book of Verses (1893)
Hale, Edward
Everett (1822-1909)
The
Brick Moon and Other Stories (1899)
Harper, Francis
Ellen Watkins (1825-1911)
Atlanta
Offering: Poems (1895)
Harrison,
Benjamin(1833-1901)
Inaugural
Address (1889)
Hayes, Rutherford
B. (1822-1893)
Inaugural
Address (1877)
Henry, O {Porter,
William Sydney} (1862-1910)
The
Gift Of The Magi
Henty, G.
A.
With
Lee in Virginia
Howells, William
Dean (1837-1920)
An East-Side
Ramble (1896)
The
Rise of Silas Lapham (1884) (by chapter)
The Rise of Silas
Lapham (1884) (by chapter)
Their Wedding
Journey (1871, 1887) (by chapter)
The Shadow of A
Dream (1890) (by chapter)
Hubbard, Elbert
(1856-1915)
A Message to Garcia (1899)
Hugo, Victor
(1802-1885)
Les
Miserables (1862) (English trans. by Isabel F. Hapgood)
James, Henry
(1843-1916)
The American
(1877) (SGML)
Confidence
(1879) (SGML)
The Portrait of a Lady
(1881)
Roderick
Hudson (1875) (SGML)
Washington Square (1880)
Watch
and Ward (1871) (SGML)
Jameson, John
Franklin
The
History of Historical Writing in America (1891)
Jevons, William
Stanley
Brief
Account of a General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy (1866)
Jewett, Sarah
Orne (1849-1909)
The
Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)
Tales
of New England (1890)
Kropotkin,
Prince Piotr Alekseyevich (1842-1921)
An
Appeal to the Young (1880)
Mutual
Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)
Lanier, Sidney
(1842-1881)
Poems
(1885)
London, Jack
(1876-1916)
The People of the Abyss
(1903)
McKinley,
William(1843-1901)
First
Inaugural Address (1897)
Second
Inaugural Address (1901)
Marshall,
Alfred (1842-1924)
Principles
of Economics (1890)
Marx, Karl
(1818-1883)
Manifesto
of the Communist Party (English, 1888)
Melville,
Herman (1819-1891)
Billy
Budd (written 1885-91, pub'd 1924)(by chapter)
Norris, Frank
(1870-1902)
Blix
(1899)
McTeague:
A Story of San Francisco (1899) (by chapter)
McTeague: A Story
of San Francisco (1899) (Proj. Gutenberg) (by chapter)
The
Octopus: A Story of California (1901)
The Pit: A Story
of Chicago (1903)
Page, Thomas
Nelson (1853-1922)
The
Burial of the Guns (1894?)
People's Party
Platform
(1896)
Pokagon, Simon
The
Future of the Red Man (1897)
Spencer, Herbert
(1820-1903)
Man
Versus State (1884)
Spofford,
Harriet Prescott (1835-1921)
[An early writer of American
detective stories]
The
Nemesis of Motherhood (1899)
Twain, Mark
(1835-1910)
The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
(with Charles
Dudley Warner)The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (chapters 24-28)
The Innocents Abroad
(by chapter)
Pudd'nhead
Wilson (1894) (by chapter)
The Prince and the Pauper
(1881)
Speeches
(1868-1909)
To
the Person Sitting in Darkness
Tom
Sawyer (1884)
A
Tramp Abroad (1880)
Veblen, Thorstein
(1857-1929)
The
Beginnings of Ownership (1898)
The
Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor (1898-9)
The
Barbarian Status of Women (1898-9)
The
Preconceptions of Economic Science pt. 1(1899)
The
Preconceptions of Economic Science pt. 2(1899)
The
Preconceptions of Economic Science pt. 3(1899)
The
Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
Why
is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science"(1898)
Verne, Jules
(1828-1905)
Around the World in Eighty
Days (1873)
Twenty Thousand Leagues
Under the Sea (1873)
Wallace, Lew
(1827-1905)
Ben Hur: A Tale of the
Christ (1880)
Washington,
Booker T. (1856-1915)
Up
From Slavery: An Autobiography (1901)
White, Andrew
Dixon (1832-1918)
A
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1898)
Wilde, Oscar
(1854-1900)
The
Complete Shorter Fiction (by chapter)
The
Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) (by chapter)
The
Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) (by poem)
Zitkala-Sa
(1876-1938)
The
School Days of an Indian Girl (1900)
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