Princeton University - Freshman Seminar Program

Prof. William Gleason

FRS 132w: American Best Sellers

WWW Related Resources

AUTHORS AND TEXTS FROM OUR COURSE

Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple (e-text)

James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Louisa May Alcott Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick (with illustrations) Zane Grey home page

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan

Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence (e-text)

Raymond Chandler Online Library

The Original Gone With the Wind Home Page

 
CULTURAL MATERIALS

Godey's Lady's Book, 1850 or Godey's Lady's Book, 1855-1858

Street and Smith 19th C. Pulp Fiction Website (included dime novel cover art and other pulp fiction links)

 

GENERAL SITES ON AMERICAN LITERATURE AND POPULAR WRITING

Publisher's Weekly Bestsellers Lists

USA Today Best Seller Lists

A Celebration of Women Writers

19th Century American Women Writers

A Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection

History of the Pulps

Write Page Modern Genre Writers Site

The Romance Authors Page

Romancing the Web

 

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