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Subject Guide: Literature

Louisa May Alcott - Fiction

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  Call Number: MEDIA RESOURCES  813.41 Z263
  Publication Date: 2008
  Biography of Louisa May Alcott, the author best known for
  writing Little women, that is based on primary sources shot

  in original locations.

 

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Jane Austen - Children & Fiction

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Call Number: MEDIA RESOURCES 791.4372 B398
ISBN: 0788876279

Tells of the life of Jane Austen that led to the writing of Pride and Prejudice.

 
 Books

Brontë Sisters - Fiction & Poetry

Lord George Byron - Poet

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - Fiction

James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction

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Call Number: online
PUBLICATION DATE: 1971

Explores three wars and leaves the century as an industrial power of 45 states and 76 million people when America entered the 19th century as an agricultural nation of 16 states and 5.3 million people.

Call Number: MEDIA RESOURCES  813.24 L33
PUBLICATION DATE: 1971
In 1757, during the French and Indian War, half-sisters Cora and Alice Munro set out to join their father, the British Commander of Fort William Henry. After they are betrayed by Magua, the sisters are rescued by Hawkeye whose efforts to lead them to safety are aided by the noble Mohican Uncas, the last of this tribe.
 
Books

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Non-Fiction & Poetry

Harriet Ann Jacobs - Non-Fiction

Ezra Jack Keats - Children

Thomas Hardy - Fiction & Poetry

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Fiction

Henry James - Fiction

Herman Melville - Fiction & Poetry

Edgar Allen Poe - Poetry

Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Poet

Henry David Thoreau - Non-Fiction & Poetry

Mark Twain - Fiction

Walt Whitman - Poetry

Oscar Wilde - Drama, Fiction, & Poetry

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Poet

Charles Dickens - Fiction

Emily Dickinson - Poetry

George Eliot - Fiction

George MacDonald - Fiction

Christiana Rosetti - Poetry