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Readings Online

Alcott "The Brothers" and Ch. III from Hospital Sketches
Arnold "Hebraism and Hellenism" from Culture and Anarchy
Chesnutt "Dave's Neckliss"
Crane Selected Poems (pay special attention to "A man adrift on a slim spar"
Dickinson Selected critical excerpts on Emily Dickinson
Freeman "Old Woman Magoun"
Howells Readings on realism (.pdf file);
  "Editha"
  "A Romance of Real Life"
Melville Selections from Battle-Pieces
Mena "The Vine-Leaf"
Twain The Whittier Birthday Dinner speech. (.pdf file)
  "A Visit to Niagara" (.doc format)
  "A True Story"
  "A Washoe Joke" ("The Petrified Man")
Various from the Household Book of Poetry
Whitman from "Drum-Taps" in Leaves of Grass (1867)