Sunday, August 9, 2009

10 Books A Day: #109



Knickerbocker's History Of New York...Washington Irving...Capricorn Books

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow and other selections...Washington Irving...Washington Square Press, Inc.

The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin...Benjamin Franklin...Collier Books

A Wonder Book...Nathaniel Hawthorne...Airmont Classics Series

Twice Told Tales...Nathaniel Hawthorne...Airmont Classics Series

The Portable Hawthorne...ed. Malcolm Cowley...Viking Portable Library

Tom Sawyer Abroad & Tom Sawyer Detective...Mark Twain...Airmont Classics Series

The Devil And Daniel Webster And Other Stories...Stephen Vincent Benet...Pocket Books

The Mentor Book Of Major American Poets...ed. Oscar Williams and Edwin Honig...Mentor

Six Centuries Of Great Poetry...ed. Robert Penn Warren & Albert Erskine...Dell

The Mentor Book Of Irish Poetry...ed. Devin A. Garrity...Mentor

Story Poems...ed. Louis Untermeyer...Washington Square Press, Inc.

As high summer creeps slowly toward autumn, with brown leaves curling and grass going to straw under the relentless sun, somehow these American tales seem to enhance their allure and appropriateness. It is a fact not often stressed in histories of our national literature that some of our first, most popular, and most influential works were, in fact, Fantasies, and that they are as much a part of the American character as anything.


Book Count: 1259.

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