Title: American Fiction
Description: NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The Scarlet Letter
[Rappaccini's Daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W)

WASHINGTON IRVING
Rip Van Winkle, a Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

EDGAR ALLAN POE
Eleonora 
Fall of the House of Usher 
Purloined Letter

FRANCIS BRET HARTE
The Luck of Roaring Camp
The Outcasts of Poker Flat 
The Idyl of Red Gulch

SAMUEL L. CLEMENS
Jim Smily and His Jumping Frog

EDWARD EVERETT HALE
The Man Without a Country
Subjects: fiction, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, short stories
Places: Padua, India, Italy, University of Padua
People: Giacomo Rappaccini, Giovanni Guasconti, Beatrice Rappaccini