The Oxford Book of American Essays

By Brander Matthews, Benjamin Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, Washington Irving, Richard Henry Dana, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Unknown Author, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry David Thoreau, Unknown Author, Walt Whitman, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, George William Curtis, Unknown Author, Charles Dudley Warner, Unknown Author, Unknown Author, John Burroughs, Clarence King, Henry James, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Henry Cabot Lodge, Unknown Author, Unknown Author, Samuel McChord Crothers, Unknown Author, Nicholas Murray Butler, Unknown Author