American Classics

Classics with a setting in America. May also be called 'Great American Novels.'

Please also reference Classics and Classic Literature.
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The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
The Scarlet Letter
East of Eden
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
The Old Man and the Sea
Fahrenheit 451
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
The Sun Also Rises
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Ms. Abraham's American Classics
40 books — 7 voters
A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. SalingerIn Another Country by Ernest HemingwayAcross the River and into the Trees by Ernest HemingwayThis Side of Paradise by F. Scott FitzgeraldFrom Death to Morning by Thomas Wolfe
Banana Fish Anthology
24 books — 1 voter


D.H. Lawrence
We like to think of the old-fashioned American classics as children's books. Just childishness, on our part. The old American art-speech contains an alien quality, which belongs to the American continent and to nowhere else. But, of course, so long as we insist on reading the books as children's tales, we miss all that. One wonders what the proper high-brow Romans of the third and fourth or later centuries read into the strange utterances of Lucretius or Apuleius or Tertullian, Augustine or At ...more
D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature

Sinclair Lewis
I came trusting them. They beat me with rods of dullness. They don't know, they don't understand how agonizing their complacent dullness is. Like ants and August sun on a wound." - Carol Kennicott ...more
Sinclair Lewis

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