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• Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience Kate Kinsella, Abigail Adams Smith, Edward Albee, Amos Bronson Alcott, Julia Alvarez, A. R. Ammons, Sherwood Anderson, W. H. Auden, James Baldwin, Ambrose Bierce, Arna Bontemps, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Gwendolyn Brooks, Joseph Bruchac, William Cullen Bryant, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Michael J. Caduto, Willa Cather, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Diana Chang, Mary Chesnut, Chief Joseph, Kate Chopin, Sandra Cisneros, Miriam Davis Colt, George Cooper, Stephen Crane, J. Hector St. John, Countee Cullen, E. E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Annie Dillard, E. L. Doctorow, H. D., Frederick Douglass, Rita Dove, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jonathan Edwards, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Olaudah Equiano, Louise Erdrich, Richard Erdoes, Martín Espada, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen Foster, Benjamin Franklin, Ian Frazier, Robert Frost, Margaret Fuller, Warren Lee Goss, Alex Haley, Lorraine Hansberry, Joy Harjo, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Hayden, Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Henry, John Hersey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Garrett Hongo, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Washington Irving, Stonewall Jackson, Randall Jarrell, Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Maxine Hong Kingston, Yusef Komunyakaa, Robert E. Lee, Meriwether Lewis, Abraham Lincoln, Jack London, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, James Russell Lowell, Robert Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Bernard Malamud, Edgar Lee Masters, Washington Matthews, Carson McCullers, Colleen McElroy, Claude McKay, Randolph H. McKim, Larry McMurtry, Herman Melville, Arthur Miller, N. Scott Momaday, Marianne Moore, Molly Moore, Naomi Shihab Nye, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Eugene O'Neill, Alfonso Ortiz, Simon J. Ortiz, Thomas Paine, Grace Paley, Arthur C. Parker, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne Porter, Ezra Pound, John Wesley Powell, Anna Quindlen, Adrienne Rich, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Roethke, William Safire, Ricardo Sanchez, Carl Sandburg, John Smith, William Stafford, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stevens, Amy Tan, Edward Taylor, Henry David Thoreau, James Thurber, Jean Toomer, Sojourner Truth, Rev. Henry M. Turner, Mark Twain, Anne Tyler, John Updike, Alice Walker, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Phillis Wheatley, E. B. White, Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, William Carlos Williams, Darryl Babe Wilson, Thomas Wolfe, Amy K. Duer, Richard Lederer, Christopher Columbus, Joni Mitchell, Tom Wolfe, Steve Wulf, Abigail Adams, Michel-guillaume Jean De Crevecoeur, Wendell Holmes Oliver, Bailey White, Emily Saliers, Angela De Hoyos, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, James Cloyd Bowman, Anonymous, Billy Joel, Flannery Oconnor, Garret Hongo 22.5 h
• Moi, Tituba, Sorcière…Noire de Salem Maryse Condé 4.5 h
• Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 6.4 h
• The Chamber John Grisham 11.1 h
• The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane Katherine Howe 7.0 h
• Death and the King's Horseman Wole Soyinka 1.4 h
• The Tempest William Shakespeare 2.6 h
• The Heretic's Daughter Kathleen Kent 6.1 h
• Salem Witch Trials Kathryn Wesley 6.6 h
• East of Eden John Steinbeck 11.3 h
• The Piano Lesson August Wilson 2.0 h
• Daughters of the Witching Hill Mary Sharratt 6.1 h

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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience Kate Kinsella, Abigail Adams Smith, Edward Albee, Amos Bronson Alcott, Julia Alvarez, A. R. Ammons, Sherwood Anderson, W. H. Auden, James Baldwin, Ambrose Bierce, Arna Bontemps, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Gwendolyn Brooks, Joseph Bruchac, William Cullen Bryant, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Michael J. Caduto, Willa Cather, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Diana Chang, Mary Chesnut, Chief Joseph, Kate Chopin, Sandra Cisneros, Miriam Davis Colt, George Cooper, Stephen Crane, J. Hector St. John, Countee Cullen, E. E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Annie Dillard, E. L. Doctorow, H. D., Frederick Douglass, Rita Dove, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jonathan Edwards, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Olaudah Equiano, Louise Erdrich, Richard Erdoes, Martín Espada, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen Foster, Benjamin Franklin, Ian Frazier, Robert Frost, Margaret Fuller, Warren Lee Goss, Alex Haley, Lorraine Hansberry, Joy Harjo, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Hayden, Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Henry, John Hersey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Garrett Hongo, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Washington Irving, Stonewall Jackson, Randall Jarrell, Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Maxine Hong Kingston, Yusef Komunyakaa, Robert E. Lee, Meriwether Lewis, Abraham Lincoln, Jack London, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, James Russell Lowell, Robert Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Bernard Malamud, Edgar Lee Masters, Washington Matthews, Carson McCullers, Colleen McElroy, Claude McKay, Randolph H. McKim, Larry McMurtry, Herman Melville, Arthur Miller, N. Scott Momaday, Marianne Moore, Molly Moore, Naomi Shihab Nye, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Eugene O'Neill, Alfonso Ortiz, Simon J. Ortiz, Thomas Paine, Grace Paley, Arthur C. Parker, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne Porter, Ezra Pound, John Wesley Powell, Anna Quindlen, Adrienne Rich, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Roethke, William Safire, Ricardo Sanchez, Carl Sandburg, John Smith, William Stafford, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stevens, Amy Tan, Edward Taylor, Henry David Thoreau, James Thurber, Jean Toomer, Sojourner Truth, Rev. Henry M. Turner, Mark Twain, Anne Tyler, John Updike, Alice Walker, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Phillis Wheatley, E. B. White, Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, William Carlos Williams, Darryl Babe Wilson, Thomas Wolfe, Amy K. Duer, Richard Lederer, Christopher Columbus, Joni Mitchell, Tom Wolfe, Steve Wulf, Abigail Adams, Michel-guillaume Jean De Crevecoeur, Wendell Holmes Oliver, Bailey White, Emily Saliers, Angela De Hoyos, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, James Cloyd Bowman, Anonymous, Billy Joel, Flannery Oconnor, Garret Hongo 22.5 h Moi, Tituba, Sorcière…Noire de Salem Maryse Condé 4.5 h Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 6.4 h The Chamber John Grisham 11.1 h The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane Katherine Howe 7.0 h Death and the King's Horseman Wole Soyinka 1.4 h The Tempest William Shakespeare 2.6 h The Heretic's Daughter Kathleen Kent 6.1 h Salem Witch Trials Kathryn Wesley 6.6 h East of Eden John Steinbeck 11.3 h The Piano Lesson August Wilson 2.0 h Daughters of the Witching Hill Mary Sharratt 6.1 h

Bar height shows length. Estimated at 250 words a minute.