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Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, and philosopher. This site contains HTML (web-readable) versions of many of Emerson's best-known essays, including a Search function to look for specific words, phrases, or quotations.

Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Arts, Literature, World Literature, American - The Free Library: MarkTwain. Read about Mark Twain's life and his work online.

The Complete Literary Works of Mark Twain

Arts, Literature, World Literature, American - Ralph Waldo Emerson. Learn more about the famous Transcendentalist, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and read Essays, First Series and Essays, Second Series online.

Arts, Literature, World Literature, American - Mark Twain. Includes the complete text of most of his works, plus a biography, photographs, and related articles.

Comprehensive, easy-to-follow site on Transcendentalists includes guides to resources for Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, plus essays explaining Transcendentalism and information on others in the Transcendentalist circle.

Arts, Literature, World Literature, American - Knowing Poe. Explore Poe’s Baltimore through this highly engaging site that includes audio readings and an interactive timeline.

Arts, Literature, World Literature, American - Free Online Library - James Fenimore Cooper. Read the complete works of this American writer.

The Poe Decoder offers essays about Edgar Allan Poe's life and works written by qualified people.

Arts, Literature, World Literature, American - Edgar Allan Poe. Complete collection of all Poe's work as well as a biography, related images, and files.

Arts, Literature, World Literature, American - E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore. General topics, works, lectures and articles.