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Good evening, /lit/. I've got a research paper coming up for my American Literature class and I have to pick an author and analyze one of their works if they wrote novels, three if they wrote poetry. The choices are as follows:
Frederick Douglass
Mary Chesnut
Bret Harte
Willa Cather
Mark Twain
Ambrose Bierce
Stephen Crane
Edith Wharton
Jack London
Kate Chopin
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edgar Lee Masters

So /lit/, whic of these authors would be best?

>> No.2369371

mark twain

>> No.2369374

Oh, do Douglass!

>> No.2369376

Definitely do not do Chopin, she was a cunt.

Do Crane, Twain, or Douglass.

>> No.2369377

Crane, Twain, Wharton, or Masters (though the only thing worth reading by masters is that one river thing.)

>> No.2369395

Do Ambrose Bierce. You'll enjoy the shit out of him, guaranteed

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>>2369376
You should do Chopin, The Awakening wasn't bad, and having that novel under your belt will help in acquiring feminist poosay.

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>> No.2369420

Ambrose Bierce > Mark Twain

>> No.2369424

>>2369411
Good point there. Also, keep in mind that you don't have to have a favorable view on the author, so if there is one you can rant about for a while you may want to do them.
Personally I would do Chopin, but that's because I just did a paper on Huck Finn.

>> No.2369439

Give Mr. London a shot.

>> No.2369443

Ambrose Bierce is probably the most fun to read

>> No.2369459

>>2369424

I remember a great uni lit class I took that had both Heart of Darkness and Jane Eyre.
The whole class liked the latter, but I was one of the few that liked the former. Our discussion of Heart of Darkness was far more interesting, though. I guess what I'm trying to say is I agree with you. Sometimes you can get into really interesting discussions about literature you don't really like. Not that we should consign the ludic qualities of literature to some dustbin or something.

>> No.2369461

Oh yeah, and my pick would be Willa Cather. I just like those rural stylies.

>> No.2369509

OP here. Right now I'm leaning towards Douglass, Twain, Bierce, or Crane. Can anyone reccommend some of their better works? Much apprieciated.