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William Bradford

Of plymouth plantation

Mary White Rowlandson

A narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

St. Jean de Crèvecoeur

Letters from an American Farmer (Letter III “What is an American?”)

Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography (part I & II)

5Washington Irving

Rip Van Winkle

Edgar Allan Poe

“The Raven”, “The Fall of The House of Usher”

7. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The American Scholar

8. Henry David Thoreau

Walden (“Economy”, “Where I lived, and what I lived for”)

9. Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter

10. Walt Whitman

“Song of Myself”

11. Herman Melville

“Benito Cereno”

12. Emily Dickenson

“I never lost as much but twice”, ”Success is counted sweetest”, I like a look of agony”, “I heard a Fly buzz”, “A narrow fellow in the grass”, “apparently with no surprise”