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Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850) (019.02.00)

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864). The Scarlet Letter. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. Rosenwald Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (019.02.00)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864). The Scarlet Letter. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield. Illustrated by Henry Varnum Poor. Facsimile of cover. New York: The Limited Edition Club, 1941. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (019.01.00)

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick;; or, the Whale (1851) (020.00.00)

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, the Whale (1851)
Herman Melville (1819–1891). Moby-Dick; or, the Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (020.00.00)

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) (021.00.00)

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896). Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. 2 vols. Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. Oliver Wendell Holmes Library Collection and Susan B. Anthony Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (021.00.00, 021.01.00, 022.00.00)

National Era, December 11, 1851. Newspaper. John Davis Batchelder Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (102.00.00)

Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1853) (023.01.00)

Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1853)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896). The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Boston: John P. Jewett & Co. 1853. John Davis Batchelder Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division (023.01.00)

Henry David Thoreau, Walden;; or, Life in the Woods (1854) (024.00.00)

Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854)
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862). Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (024.00.00)

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855) (025.00.00)

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855)
Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: [Walt Whitman] and Rome Brothers, 1855. Houghton Whitman Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (025.00.00)

Louisa May Alcott, The Mysterious Key (1867) (026.00.00)

Louisa May Alcott, The Mysterious Key (1867)
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). The Mysterious Key and What It Opened. Boston: Elliot, Thomes & Talbot, 1867. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (026.00.00)

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy (1868) (027.01.00)

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy (1868)
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Little Women, or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (027.01.00)

Horatio Alger Jr., Mark, the Match Boy (1869) (028.00.00)

Horatio Alger Jr., Mark, the Match Boy (1869)
Horatio Alger Jr. (1832–1899). Mark, the Match Boy. Boston: Loring, 1869. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (028.00.00)

Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, The American Woman’s Home (1869) (029.00.00)

Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, The American Woman’s Home (1869)
Catharine E. Beecher (1800–1878) and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896). The American Woman’s Home; or, Principles of Domestic Science; Being a Guide to the Formation and Maintenance of Economical, Healthful, Beautiful, and Christian Homes. New York: J. B. Ford, 1869. Katherine Golden Bitting Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (029.00.00)

Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) (030.00.00)

Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens, 1835–1910). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (030.00.00)

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens, 1835–1910). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (030.01.00)

Emily Dickinson, Poems (1890) (031.00.00)

Emily Dickinson, Poems (1890)
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886). Poems. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (031.00.00)

Emily Dickinson, Slant of Light=Sesgo de Luz (1890) (032.00.00)

Emily Dickinson, Slant of Light=Sesgo de Luz (1890)
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886). Slant of Light=Sesgo de Luz. Matanzas, Cuba: Ediciones Vigia, 1998. Press Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (32.00.00)

Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890) (033.00.00)

Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890)
Jacob Riis (1849–1914). How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York. New York: Penguin Books, 1997. General Collections, Library of Congress (033.00.00)

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895) (034.00.00)

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
Steven Crane (1871–1900). The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (034.00.00)

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