Anderson, Sherwood

Winesburg, Ohio

A collection of shorts stories lay bare the life of a small town in the Midwest in the early 20th century.

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Cather, Willa

My Antonia

O Pioneers!

Two books that bring to life the struggles of immigrant pioneers adapting to the Nebraskan prairies.

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Chopin, Kate

The Awakening

The story focuses on a young woman who abandons her husband and children to search for love and self-understanding in the late 1800s.

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Cooper, James Fenimore

The Last of the Mohicans

Set during the French and Indian War, it explores the friendship of two men at odds with their own people at the edge of the American Frontier.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The Great Gatsby

A young man corrupts himself and the American Dream to regain a lost love.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The Scarlet Letter

An Adulterous Puritan woman keeps secret the identity of the father of her illegitimate child.

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Lee, Harper

To Kill a Mockingbird

At great peril to himself and children, layer Atticus Finch defends an African-American man accused of raping a while woman in a small Alabama town in the early 1930s.

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Lewis, Sinclair

Main Street

A young doctor's wife tries to change the ugliness, dullness, and ignorance which prevail in Gopher Prairie, MN.

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London, Jack

Call of the Wild

Buck is a loyal pet dog until cruel men make him a pawn in their search for Klondike gold.

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Sinclair, Upton

The Jungle

The deplorable conditions and the exploited lives of immigrants in the Chicago Stockyards are exposed in this novel, at the begging of the 1900s.

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Steibeck, John

The Grapes of Wrath

Depicts the desperate flight of tenant farmers from Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl Migration in the 1930s.

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Steinbeck, John

Of Mice and Men

The story of the friendship and experiences of two migrant ranch hands during the Great Depression

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The classic tale that awakened a nation about the slave system.

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Twain, Mark

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Huck and Jim, a runaway slave, travel down the Mississippi River in search of freedom.

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Walker, Alice

The Color Purple

A young woman sees herself as property until another woman teaches her to value herself. Set in the first half of the 20th century.

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Wright, Richard

Native Son

Bigger Thomas, a young man from the Chicago slums, lashes out against a hostile society by murdering two people.

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