"The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt". These stories are considered to be important early forerunners of the modern detective story. It first appeared in The Gift for 1845 (1844) and was soon reprinted in numerous journals and newspapers. Text prepared for Project Gutenberg.

The first novel by newspaper columnist Fanny Fern (Sarah Payson Willis Parton) about a woman who overcomes misfortune, poverty, and sexism to make her own way in teh world with her wit and her pen. After the death of her husband, Ruth Hall receives little support from her family and must provide for herself and her two daughters. Originally published in 1854, Ruth Hall is based on Fanny Fern's own experiences as a working woman breaking into the male-dominated field of newspaper writing.

An annotated discovery of Emerson's homage to the infamous Renaissance man that wrote the constitution for the Republic of Letters. As we travel Emerson's insight into the bard, the annotations serve as an off-ramp to inspire thought and conversation, supplemented with reputable external resources. The range of topics is diverse, but all overlap with the great playwright and his works. Of the explored are Shakespearean Metaphysics, madness as mental illness, a Nazi-approved German translation, Herder insisting Shakespeare was the cause for Goethe's abysmal work, and more. Each of these various themes stems from Emerson's text; serving as our guide through the divergent, yet intersectional, points of discourse on Shakespeare's life and work.

Marked with a red letter "A" on her dress, Hester Prynne is notorious in her Puritan society. Everyone wants to know who fathered her illegitimate child. In spite of the rumors, shunning and shame, Hester keeps her secretÑwith unexpected consequences.

A selection of 75 poems from Petrarch's Canzoniere with additional audiovisual and other resources.

A Collection of 30 essays and short stories written by American author Washington Irving. The collection includes two stories, attributed to the fictional character Diedrich Knickerbocker: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." Originally published seially 1819-20; this text is based on the author's revised and expanded edition, published in 1848.

In this lecture and discussion-based course, we will examine major developments in art history that are categorized under the category of modernism or modern art. Each week this semester, we will orient developments of modern art in time (chronologically) and space (geographically, regionally) as well as their social, political, and cultural contexts. We will prioritize the point of view of the artist and explore how and why they produced these distinct artistic ideas and objects during the 19th and 20th centuries. We will first examine how the ethos of ‘modern’ appears through art, and then pivot to major artistic movements of the first half of the 20th century that respond to and influence representations of industry, technology, nationalism, spirituality, and rebellion: Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, European Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, CoBrA, Spatialism, and Nouveau Réalisme. Assigned readings, homework assignments (to be completed on Dropbox), and scaffolded writing assignments throughout the course, encourage students to think about the ways that artists from these movements take on new, unexpected, and ‘modern’ directions in their artwork.

Teaching and Learning Spanish at CUNY: Public Language Education Through Archival Resources is a peer-mentoring project addressed to Spanish adjuncts that promote curricular changes in the Spanish class through the use of CUNY Latino archives.

This textbook prepared and written by V.P Nair. The materials present in this book are based on the lecture notes for the course on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics.

A selection of Hobbes' moral philosophy that offers an influential analysis of the source and meaning of laughter in Restoration society.

This Project Gutenberg EPUB of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island includes original illustrations by Louis Rhead.

Sensational abolitionist novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Written in response the the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, it was first published serially from June 1851 to April 1852 in The National Era (D.C.). Within a year of the book's publication in 1852, sales records had been shattered: nearly 300,000 books sold in the U.S. and a staggering 1.5 million in Great Britain.This edition is based on the first edition two-volume illustrated edition. It includes the original illustrations as well as documents which help readers understand the cultural context in which the novel appeared. Edited and published by Paul L. Hebert,
The Graduate Center, CUNY

Two-thousand copies of Walden, or Life in the Woods were first published in Boston by Ticknor and Fields, Aug. 1854. The work received generally favorable reviews but sold slowly. This edition was prepared for students at the City University of New York. It is offered under a Creative Commons license under which the edition may freely read, shared, and edited.