Joel Chandler Harris

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company

Periods of American Literature

9 American Countercultural Books

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Why Was Nazi Germany Called the Third Reich?

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The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church

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What is Holy Week?

What Is the Most Widely Practiced Religion in the World?

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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

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Causes of the Great Depression

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6 Wars of Independence

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Born	December 9, 1848 • Georgia
Died	July 3, 1908 (aged 59) • Atlanta • Georgia
Notable Works	“Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings”
Movement / Style	local colour

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Claude McKay

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Quentin Reynolds

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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James Baldwin

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Theodore Dreiser

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Vladimir Nabokov

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Sylvia Plath

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Alice Walker

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Louise Erdrich

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Gwendolyn Brooks

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Langston Hughes

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Roxane Gay

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