Some American literature classics
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Washington Irving:
Washington Irving in my opinion was our first great native American writer. He traveled to England and Europe and wrote about what he saw and heard there, as well as writing about the new and old America.
A History of New York, 1809.
The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, 1820 This work included the Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle.
The Life and Voyages of Columbus, 1829.
Tales of the Alhambra, 1832.
The Life of Washington, 1959. (in five volumes). A great view of the American Revolutionary War.
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens):
Innocents Abroad, 1869.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876.
Life on the Mississippi, 1883.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1885.
Van Loon:
Hendrick Willem Van Loon was born in the Netherlands in 1882 and was educated at American universities. He wrote many brilliant and readable books in the1920s, 1930s and 1940s.
The Fall of the Dutch Republic, 1913.
The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1915.
Ancient Man, 1920.
The Story of Mankind, 1921.
The Story of the Bible, 1923.
Tolerance, 1925.
The Story of America, 1927
Rembrandt van Rijn, 1930.
Van Loon's Geography, 1932.
The Arts, 1937.
The Story of the Pacific, 1940.
Van Loon's Lives, 1942.
American Satire:
Robert Benchley:
Robert Benchley was a talented writer; he also starred in the movies and on radio.
20,000 Leagues under the Sea, or David Copperfield, 1928.
No Poems: Or Around the World Backwards and Sideways.
My Ten Years in a Quandry, and how they grew, 1936.
Inside Benchley, 1942.
Benchley - or Else!, 1947.
The Benchley Roundup, 1954 (edited by his son).
Bill Nye
Bill Nye's Comic History of the U. S., (Illustrated by F Opper). 1894. (an interesting view from over a century ago)..
S. J. Perelman link : S. J. Perelman
S. (Sidney) J. (Joseph) Perelman
He was born on 1 February 1904 in Providence, Rhode Island. He passed away in New York City in 1979.
S. J. Perelman was a prolific and very talented writer. He also worked on several screen plays for Hollywood, inluding a couple of Marx Brothers comedies. Most of his books are collections of his short stories, which previously had been published in The New Yorker and travel magazines.
(a partial list of his books):
Dawn Ginsberg's Revenge, (a novel), 1929.
Strictly from Hunger, 1937;
Look Who's Talking, 1940.
The Dream Department, 1943.
Crazy Like a Fox, 1944.
Keep it Crisp, 1946.
Acres and Pains, 1947.
Best of S. J. Perelman, 1947.
Westward Ha! or Around the World in Eighty Cliches, 1948.
Swiss Family Perelman, 1950.
The Ill-Tempered Chavichord, 1952.
The Road to Miltown, 1967.
The Most of S. J. Perelman, 1957.
The Rising Gorge, 1961.
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