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1.The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction by: Ann Charters 1995-01
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This is a big book but well worth the price and time if you are a serious reader of short stories or trying to write them (as I am). You will find a comprehensive collection of the finest stories from the first efforts down to the present. There is also a wealth of commentary and criticism on the story in general and those in the collection. The Story and Its Writer has to be one of the best single sources of short story material that's yet been assembled.

2.The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette (Penguin Classics) by: William Hill Brown, Hannah Webster Foster November 01, 1996
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An excellent book. I was really only interested in The Power of Sympathy because of its billing as the first American novel. I had never heard of "The Coquette," a separate novel included in the Penguin Classic version. It turned out that The Coquette was the far more interesting of the two...much better writing and much better insight into the thinking of the times on the subjects of the role of women in the new United States and of the existence and the consequences of seduction. The actions of women have changed immeasurably since that time but the thinking remains remarkably the same.

3.Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861 (Reencounters With Colonialism) by: Michelle Burnham September 15, 1997
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An excellent book. I was really only interested in The Power of Sympathy because of its billing as the first American novel. I had never heard of "The Coquette," a separate novel included in the Penguin Classic version. It turned out that The Coquette was the far more interesting of the two...much better writing and much better insight into the thinking of the times on the subjects of the role of women in the new United States and of the existence and the consequences of seduction. The actions of women have changed immeasurably since that time but the thinking remains remarkably the same.

4.The Plight of Feeling: Sympathy and Dissent in the Early American Novel by: Julia A. Stern November 24, 1997
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One of the best books on the gothic and sentimental novel that I've encountered.

5.Kelroy: A Novel (Early American Women Writers) by: Rebecca Rush January 14, 1993
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Kelroy is a novel of manners set in 1812 Philadelphia. The basic story line involves Mrs Hammond and her two daughters. On the death of her husband, Mrs Hammond finds herself destitute with two lovely, marriageable daughters. She plans to marry them to rich husbands, and begins a campaign in order to bring this about. Kelroy is in love with Emily Hammond, who reciprocates, but Kelroy is not rich enough for Mrs. Hammond and the stage is set. The book is well written and well paced. If you enjoy Defoe, Haywood, Burney, or Austen this will be similar in style. I had two problems with the book. The first was that occasionally the characters were too "Romantic", meaning romantic like Shelley, Scott or Byron. They become over excited by nature, beautiful music, beautiful people etc. and ... Read More

6.The Dark Chamber by: Leonard Cline September 13, 2005
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"The Dark Chamber" is full-blooded Gothic horror and a classic tale of Promethean ruin. Cline has his tongue firmly in his cheek at times and is deadly serious at others; Richard Pride, an independently wealthy thinker, has an odd theory about human memory and the function it serves. He believes that it is possible through all manner of reminiscence to scan ancestral memory and do a sort of time travel through the tunnel of dreams. To this end he isolates himself in a mansion, Mordance Hall, with an embittered wife unnaturally interested in astrology, a jealous alcoholic secretary, his whimsical daughter Janet, and a particularly nasty dog named Tod (the German word for death). Narrating all this is our dubious protagonist Oscar, a conceited musician who is called upon by Pride ... Read More

7.States of Sympathy: Seduction and Democracy in the American Novel by: Elizabeth Barnes 1997-11
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"The Dark Chamber" is full-blooded Gothic horror and a classic tale of Promethean ruin. Cline has his tongue firmly in his cheek at times and is deadly serious at others; Richard Pride, an independently wealthy thinker, has an odd theory about human memory and the function it serves. He believes that it is possible through all manner of reminiscence to scan ancestral memory and do a sort of time travel through the tunnel of dreams. To this end he isolates himself in a mansion, Mordance Hall, with an embittered wife unnaturally interested in astrology, a jealous alcoholic secretary, his whimsical daughter Janet, and a particularly nasty dog named Tod (the German word for death). Narrating all this is our dubious protagonist Oscar, a conceited musician who is called upon by Pride ... Read More

8.The History of the Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club (Three Volume Set) by: Alexander Hamilton 1990-10
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"The Dark Chamber" is full-blooded Gothic horror and a classic tale of Promethean ruin. Cline has his tongue firmly in his cheek at times and is deadly serious at others; Richard Pride, an independently wealthy thinker, has an odd theory about human memory and the function it serves. He believes that it is possible through all manner of reminiscence to scan ancestral memory and do a sort of time travel through the tunnel of dreams. To this end he isolates himself in a mansion, Mordance Hall, with an embittered wife unnaturally interested in astrology, a jealous alcoholic secretary, his whimsical daughter Janet, and a particularly nasty dog named Tod (the German word for death). Narrating all this is our dubious protagonist Oscar, a conceited musician who is called upon by Pride ... Read More

9.Hour Of Judgment (The Executioner) by: Don Pendleton April 01, 2005
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"The Dark Chamber" is full-blooded Gothic horror and a classic tale of Promethean ruin. Cline has his tongue firmly in his cheek at times and is deadly serious at others; Richard Pride, an independently wealthy thinker, has an odd theory about human memory and the function it serves. He believes that it is possible through all manner of reminiscence to scan ancestral memory and do a sort of time travel through the tunnel of dreams. To this end he isolates himself in a mansion, Mordance Hall, with an embittered wife unnaturally interested in astrology, a jealous alcoholic secretary, his whimsical daughter Janet, and a particularly nasty dog named Tod (the German word for death). Narrating all this is our dubious protagonist Oscar, a conceited musician who is called upon by Pride ... Read More

10.The Tuesday Club: A Shorter Edition of The History of the Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club by Dr. Alexander Hamilton (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) from: The Johns Hopkins University Press February 01, 1995
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The Tuesday Club is a book of minutes from the colonial times.Tuesday clubs sprouted all over the colonies to give the artistic people a place to share ideas. It has many interesting stories, poems, etc. in it. Great reading for the history buff!

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