01172cam a2200229 i 4500 283102270 TxAuBib 20020308120000.0 020308s1959||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 59-12500 TxAuBib rda Woods, Ralph Louis, 1904- The Family Reader of American Masterpieces / Compiled and Edited by Ralph Louis Woods. New York, NY : Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1959] 496 p : hardcover. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Barely two hundred years have passed since men like Thomas Paine were moved by the tensions of pre-Revolutionary times to write their masterful essays. Yet within that short period, every aspect of a growing and and expanding country has been recorded in every form of writitng from fiction and poetry to essays and news reporting. In compiling this anthology, I have chosen from this vast heritage those selections that seem most readable today. 20020308. American literature.