The Library of America’s Best-Selling Titles

# 5. Henry David Thoreau: A Week, Walden, The Main Woods, Cape Cod (1985)

#4. Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose (1982)

#3. Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings, 1832-1865 (1989)

#2.  Mark Twain: Mississippi Writings (1982)

#1.  Thomas Jefferson: Writings (1984).

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