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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Pilgrim's Progress	John Bunyan	Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual journey of the soul toward God. The hero, Christian, encounters many obstacles in his quest: the Valley …	OL107195W
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult	H. G. Wells,Kris Neville,Arthur Conan Doyle,Robert W. Chambers,Martin H. Greenberg,Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton,Edith Wharton,Cornell Woolrich,F. W. Harvey,Judith Merrill,Henry Slesar,Avram Davidson,Gertrude Henderson,Ray Bradbury,Rudyard Kipling,Charles G. Waugh,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Hay,C. L. Moore,Edgar Allan Poe,Fritz Leiber,Isaac Asimov,Helen McCloy,Manly Wade Wellman,August Derleth	Contains: Under the knife / H.G. Wells -- Children of the Zodiac / Rudyard Kipling -- The girl who found things / Henry Slesar -- The emigrant banshee / Gertrude Henderson -- [Young Goodman Brow…	OL14959247W
The puritan gift	Kenneth Hopper	"The Puritan Gift traces the origins and characteristics of an American managerial culture which, over the course of three centuries, turned a handful of small colonies into the greatest economic and…	OL15477993W
Godly republicanism	Michael P. Winship	Puritans did not find a life free from tyranny in the New World -- they created it there. Massachusetts emerged a republic as they hammered out a vision of popular participation and limited governmen…	OL16014533W
Anne Hutchinson	Susan Bivin Aller	Biography of Anne Marbury Hutchinson, a Puritan woman in colonial Massachusetts who was put on trial by the church leaders for her spiritual teachings.	OL19826753W
The Norton Introduction to Fiction--Fourth Edition	Richard Connell,Jorge Luis Borges,Антон Павлович Чехов,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,James Joyce,Spencer Holst,Kate Chopin,Gabriel García Márquez,Jerome Beaty,Alice Munro	The zebra storyteller / Spencer Holst No one's a mystery / Elizabeth Tallent The jewelry / Guy de Maupassant [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allan Poe Sonny'…	OL20501950W
Puritans	David D. Hall	This book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America. Shedding critical new l…	OL21031160W
Anne Hutchinson	Bruce T. Paddock	A biography of Massachusetts Bay colonist and Puritan Anne Hutchinson who is remembered as an early proponent of civil rights and religion freedom in colonial America.	OL24173001W
Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition	Jorge Luis Borges,Alice Walker,William Faulkner,Lewis Carroll,X. J. Kennedy,Emily Brontë,John Steinbeck,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Tennessee Williams,Edgar Allan Poe,James Joyce,Kate Chopin,Sylvia Plath,Jack London,Shirley Jackson,Margaret Atwood,Chinua Achebe,Dana Gioia,William Shakespeare	Fiction. Talking with Amy Tan -- Reading a story -- The art of fiction -- Types of short fiction -- Death has an appointment in Samarra / Sufi Legend -- The north wind and the sun / Aesop -- Th…	OL26371856W
The house on Stink Alley	F. N. Monjo	Young Love Brewster describes the experiences of his family and other Pilgrims living in Leyden in the years before the Mayflower sailed for the New World.	OL2940616W
The Stratford devil	Claude Clayton Smith	A fictionalized account of the struggles of a Puritan settlement and events leading to the historical hanging of Goody Bassett for witchcraft in Stratford, Connecticut, in the spring of 1651.	OL3471639W
America's Literature	Mark Twain,William Faulkner,Thomas Wolfe,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,Theodore Dreiser,James D. Hart,James David Hart	From The general history of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles / John Smith -- from The history of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford -- from The bloody tenet yet more bloody ; A lette…	OL3524715W
The Saint' everlasting rest: or, a treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment o…	John 1703-1791 Wesley,Baxter,Isaac Crewdson,Richard Baxter	Richard Baxter's The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650) has long been recognized as one of the great classics of Christian devotion, and it is by this book that he is best known. The original work consi…	OL3873582W
The guardian	Nancy N. Rue	In colonial Massachusetts in 1690, Josiah, Hope, and their cousin Rebecca overcome their differences and restore their friendship to form a "merry band."	OL448693W
Scarlet Letter with Connections	Elinor Wylie,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Frances Ellen Watkins Harper,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Doreen Rappaport,Edgar Allan Poe,Shirley Jackson,Perry Turner,Richard Alleva	The Scarlett Letter -- Connections: Who killed Arthur Dimmesdale? / by Perry Turner -- [Lottery](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3171085W/Lottery) / by Shirley Jackson -- Puritan sonnet / by Elino…	OL455436W
Seven Stories (Ethan Brand / Great Stone Face / Maypole of Merry Mount / Mr. Higginbotham's Catastr…	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Contains: Ethan Brand Great Stone Face Maypole of Merry Mount Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe [Rappaccini's Daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W) Seven Vagabonds [Young Goodman Bro…	OL455451W
Young Goodman Brown	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Contained in: - [America's Literature](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3524715W) - [Best of Hawthorne](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455202W/The_Best_of_Hawthorne) - [Best Short Stories](ht…	OL455569W
Hawthorne's Short Stories	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Contains 24 stories: Alice Doane's appeal Ambitious Guest Antique Ring Artist of the Beautiful [Birth-Mark](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455204W) Celestial Railroad Egotism; or, the bosom s…	OL455582W
John Cotton	Everett H. Emerson	First full-length study of the seventeenth-century American Puritan preacher in the light of his contributions to American literature.	OL468095W
Anne Hutchinson	Dennis B. Fradin	Recounts the story of the Puritan woman who was banished from her colony for being outspoken against the religious leaders there.	OL46812W