Online Texts for Craig White's Literature Courses

Susan B. Warner

(1819-85)

The Wide,

Wide World

1850

For LITR 4328 American Renaissance & LITR 5431 American Romanticism, read chapters 1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 15.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 5

from Chapter 6

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

from Chapter 12

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Subsequent chapters are selected for particular contents and for the novel’s mixed romantic conclusion.

from Chapter 39

from Chapter 42

from Chapter 50

Chapter 52 (conclusion)