ConVal High School Honors American Literature Class
"We are all drugged by our own frenzy."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ellison on Twain ( html / pdf ) Twain On Cooper Mencken on Twain
"Self-Reliance" "History" Eulogy for Thoreau
Dancing The Importance of Everyday Things Janice Stark Story The Pastel Lady Winter
The Agnosticism of Melville Hawthorne and Melville "Bartleby the Scrivener"