Many of the excerpts in the reader mentioned books that Lincoln read and most influenced him -- here is a list of some of them with their locations in the Alvin Sherman Library:
What Lincoln Read:
Holy Bible : Authorized King James Version : new Scofield study system with introductions, annotations, and subject chain references / editor, C.I. Scofield. New York: Oxford University Press, c1998.
Sherman Library BS185 1998 .N48 1998b
Shakespeare, William. The complete works of Shakespeare / edited by David Bevington. Edition 6th ed. New York : Pearson/Longman, 2008.
Sherman Library PR2755 .B4 2008
Bunyan, John. Pilgrim's progress; with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Ola Elizabeth Winslow. Danbury, Connecticut : Grolier Enterprises Corp. [1978?]
Sherman Library PR3330.A2 W5
Aesop's fables / translated with an introduction and notes by Laura Gibbs. Publisher Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Sherman Library PA3855.E5 G533 2002
Euclid. Euclid's Elements : all thirteen books complete in one volume / the Thomas L. Heath translation ; Dana Densmore, editor. Edition 2nd ed. with minor revisions. Publisher Santa Fe, N.M. : Green Lion Press, 2003. Sherman Library QA31 .E875 2003
If you would like to read more of what Lincoln wrote see:
Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html
Finally if you are interested in reading more about Lincoln as a writer check out this book:
Kaplan, Fred. Lincoln : the biography of a writer. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2008. Sherman Library E457.2 .K357 2008
Professor Kaplan was a speaker at the Broward County Libraries Foundation Lit Live program held at the Alvin Sherman Library in March of this year.
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