Classic American Novels

Sailor Ishmael tells the story of the obsessive quest of Captain Ahab for revenge on a white whale. By Herman Melville

Novel by James Fenimore Cooper. Part of Leatherstocking Tales, features Natty Bumpo. Set in New York wilderness.

Louisa May Alcott. The novel follows the lives of four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March.

This title character lives with Aunt Polly and half-brother Sid, whitewashes a fence and attends his own funeral. Twain

This Irving character drinks some water and sleeps for 20 years, awakening to find the world has changed dramatically.

A Nathaniel Hawthorne work focusing on a family curse left by Colonel Pyncheon.

This non-fiction text by Henry David Thoreau is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings

Nathaniel Hawthorne work set in 17th-century Massachusetts Bay Colony telling the story of Hester Prynne.

The story by Washington Irving set in 1790 in Tarry Town with characters Ichabod Crane and Katrina Von Tassel.

Melville's plot follows a seaman impressed aboard the warship HMS Bellipotent from a merchant ship "The Rights of Man"

A comedy written by Mark Twain that sees life through Hank Morgan's view after receiving a blow to the head.

Best selling novel of the 19th century by Harriett Beecher Stowe featuring a long-suffering black slave.

This satirical work by Mark Twain is set in Southern antebellum society along the Mississippi River.

Set during the American Civil War, this Stephen Crane story is about an ashamed private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming

Kate Chopin. Set in New Orleans at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her femininity.