""Masterpieces of American Literature"" is a comprehensive collection of works by some of the most celebrated American writers of the 19th century. This anthology includes works by Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, Daniel Webster, Edward Everett, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and Henry David Thoreau. The book was...