The American Crisis is a pamphlet

series by eighteenth
century Enlightenment philosopher
and author, Thomas Paine, originally
published from 1776 to 1783 during
the American Revolution. Often
known as, The American Crisis or
simply, The Crisis, there are 16
pamphlets in total. Thirteen
numbered pamphlets were published
between 1776 and 1777, with three
additional pamphlets released
between 1777 and 1783. The first of the
pamphlets was published
in Pennsylvania Journal on December
19, 1776. Paine signed the pamphlets
with the pseudonym, "Common
Sense".
"The Raven" is a narrative
poem by American writer Edgar
Allan Poe. First published in January
1845, the poem is often noted for its
musicality, stylized language,
and supernatural atmosphere. It tells
of a talking raven's mysterious visit to
a distraught lover, tracing the man's
slow fall into madness. The lover,
often identified as being a student, is
lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore.
Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven
seems to further distress the
protagonist with its constant
repetition of the word "Nevermore".
The poem makes use of folk,
mythological, religious,
and classical references.
Little Women is a novel by
American author Louisa May
Alcott (1832–1888), which was
originally published in two
volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott
wrote the books over several
months at the request of her
publisher. Following the lives of
the four March sisters—Meg, Jo,
Beth and Amy—the novel details
their passage from childhood to
womanhood and is loosely based
on the author and her three sisters.
Scholars classify Little Women as
an autobiographical or semi-
autobiographical novel.
Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first
published in the United Kingdom in
December 1884 and in the United
States in February 1885. Commonly
named among the Great American
Novels, the work is among the first in
major American literature to be
written throughout
in vernacular English, characterized
by local color regionalism. It is told in
the first person by Huckleberry
"Huck" Finn, the narrator of two
other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer
Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective)
and a friend of Tom Sawyer. It is a
direct sequel to The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer.
A Raisin in the Sun is a play
by Lorraine Hansberry that
debuted on Broadway in
1959. The title comes from the
poem "Harlem" (also known as "A
Dream Deferred") by Langston
Hughes. The story tells of a black
family's experiences in "Clybourne
Park", a fictionalized version of
the Washington Park
Subdivision of Chicago's Woodlaw
n neighborhood, as they attempt
to improve their financial
circumstances with an insurance
payout following the death of the
father. The New York Drama
Critics' Circle named it the best
play of 1959.
The Great Gatsby is a 1925
novel written by American author F.
Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of
characters living in the fictional towns
of West Egg and East Egg on
prosperous Long Island in the summer
of 1922. The story primarily concerns
the young and mysterious
millionaire Jay Gatsby and
his quixotic passion
and obsession with the beautiful
former debutante Daisy Buchanan.
Considered to be
Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great
Gatsby explores themes
of decadence, idealism, resistance to
change, social upheaval and excess,
creating a portrait of the Roaring
Twenties that has been described as a
cautionarytale regarding
the American Dream.
The Armies of the Night is
a nonfiction novel written by Norman
Mailer and published by New
American Library in 1968. It won
the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-
fiction[1] and the National Book
Award in category Arts and Letters.
The book's full title is The Armies of
the Night: History as a
Novel/The Novel as History.
Mailer essentially created his own
genre;[citation needed] as the subtitle
suggests; the narrative is split into
historicized and novelized accounts of
the October 1967 March on the
Pentagon. Mailer's unique rendition
of the non-fiction novel was one of
only a few at the time, and received
the most critical attention.
Walt Whitman composed O Captain! My
Captain! after Abraham Lincoln’s
assassination in 1865. The poem is classified as
an elegy or mourning poem; and was written
to honor the president and mourn his death.
In the poem, Whitman refers to Lincoln as the
captain of the ship, representing America. The
poem also has several references to the
American Civil War; and political and social
issues of the time. It begins by describing the
mood of the nation after the victory of the
Union in the Civil War. The speaker then asks
his Captain to rise and join the celebration not
acknowledging that Lincoln is dead. He finally
accepts that the Captain is dead and mourns
his loss. O Captain! My Captain! is still widely
read in the United States. It is the one of the
most famous poem of Whitman and perhaps
the most famous elegy written by an
American.
The Catcher in the Rye is a story
by J. D. Salinger, partially published
in serial form in 1945–1946 and as a
novel in 1951. It was originally
intended for adults but is read by
adolescents for its themes
of angst and alienation, and as a
critique on superficiality in society. It
has been translated into almost all of
the world's major languages. Around
one million copies are sold each year,
with total sales of more than
65 million books. The novel's
protagonist Holden Caulfield has
become an icon for teenage
rebellion. The novel also deals with
complex issues of innocence, identity,
belonging, loss, and connection.
 Of Plymouth Plantation was
written over a period of years
by William Bradford, the leader of
the Plymouth
Colony in Massachusetts. It is
regarded as the most authoritative
account of the Pilgrims and the early
years of the colony which they
founded.
The journal was written between
1630 and 1651 and describes the story
of the Pilgrims from 1608, when they
settled in the Dutch Republic on the
European mainland through the
1620 Mayflower voyage to the New
World, until the year 1647. The book
ends with a list
of Mayflower passengers and what
happened to them which was written
in 1651.