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The Oxford Book of American Essays

by Brander Matthews, Benjamin Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, Washington Irving, Richard Henry Dana, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Walt Whitman, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, George William Curtis, Theodore Winthrop, Charles Dudley Warner, Charles William Eliot, William Dean Howells, John Burroughs, Clarence King, Henry James, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Crary Brownell, Martin, Edward Sandford, Samuel McChord Crothers, Theodore Roosevelt, Nicholas Murray Butler, William Peterfield Trent