Literary Texts Dates and Authors

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850

Moby Dick

Herman Melville 1851

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott 1868

Portrait of A Lady

Henry James 1881

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain 1885 (set pre-civil war!!)

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892

The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane 1895 (set during American Civil War!!)

O Pioneers!

Willa Cather 1913 (Set during Westward Expansion!!)

Bernice Bobs her Hair

F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920

Gentlemen prefer Blondes

Anita Loos 1925

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway 1929 (set during WW1!!)

Passing

Nella Larsen 1929

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck 1939

I too

Poem - Langston Hughes 1926“I am the darker brother “They’ll see how beautiful I am / And be ashamed”

Native Son

Richard Wright 1940