AMERICAN WRITERS SERIES
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HARRY HAYDEN CLARK General Editor
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* AMERICAN WRITERS SERIES *
Volumes of representative selections, prepared by American scholars under the general editorship of Harry Hayden Clark, University of Wisconsin.
Volumes now ready are starred.
American Transcendentalists, Raymond Adams, University of North Carolina
*William Cullen Bryant, Tremaine McDowell, University of Minnesota
*James Fenimore Cooper, Robert E. Spiller, Swarthmore College
*Jonathan Edwards, Clarence H. Faust, University of Chicago, and Thomas H. Johnson, Hackley School
*Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederic I. Carpenter, Harvard University
*Benjamin Franklin, Frank Luther Mott and Chester E. Jorgenson, University of Iowa
*Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, Frederick C. Prescott, Cornell University
Bret Harte
*Nathaniel Hawthorne, Austin Warren, Boston University
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Robert Shafer, University of Cincinnati
*Washington Irving, Henry A. Pochmann, Mississippi State College
Henry James, Lyon Richardson, Western Reserve University
Abraham Lincoln
*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Odell Shepard, Trinity College
James Russell Lowell, Norman Foerster, University of Iowa, and Harry H. Clark, University of Wisconsin
Herman Melville, Willard Thorp, Princeton University
John Lothrop Motley
Thomas Paine, Harry H. Clark, University of Wisconsin
Francis Parkman, Wilbur L. Schramm, University of Iowa
*Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Alterton, University of Iowa, and Hardin Craig, Stanford University
William Hickling Prescott, Claude Jones, Johns Hopkins University
*Southern Poets, Edd Winfield Parks, University of Georgia
Southern Prose, Gregory Paine, University of North Carolina
*Henry David Thoreau, Bartholow Crawford, University of Iowa
*Mark Twain, Fred Lewis Pattee, Rollins College
*Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall, University of Texas
John Greenleaf Whittier
Pen drawing by Kerr Eby, after an engraving by Mason Chamberlin
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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REPRESENTATIVE SELECTIONS, WITH INTRODUCTION, BIBLIOGRAPHY, AND NOTES
BY Frank Luther Mott
Director, School of Journalism University of Iowa
AND Chester E. Jorgenson
Instructor in English University of Iowa
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