Important Works and Their Authors (American)

Irving

"Knickerbocker's History", Sketch Book, Tales of a Traveler

Irving

Conquest of Granada, The Alhambra, Astoria, Life of Washington

Hawthorne

Fanshawe, Twice-Told Tales, Mosses from an Old Manse

Hawthorne

House of the Seven Gables, Blithedale Romance, Marble Faun, American Notebooks

Longfellow

Outre-Mer, Hyperion; Voices of the Night, Poems of Slavery

Longfellow

Evangeline, Tales of a Wayside Inn, Ultima Thule

Poe

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, The Raven

Melville

Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Billy Budd

Whitman

Drum Taps, Democratic Vistas

Mark Twain

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court, Pudd'nhead Wilson, The Mysterious Stranger

Howells

A Modern Instance, Rise of Silas Lapham, Indian summer, Criticism and Fiction, A Traveler from Altruria

Tarkington

Monsieur Beaucaire, Alice Adams,

James

Partial Portraits, Aspern Papers, Tragic Muse, The Awkward Age

James

The Real Thing and Other Tales, What Maisie Knew, Spoils of Poynton

James

The Sacred Fount, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl

Wharton

The House of Mirth, Ethan From, The Age of Innocence

Sinclair

The Jungle

Frost

A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval, New Hampshire, West-Running Brook

Frost

A Further Range, A Masque of Reason, A Masque of Mercy

Frost

In the Clearing

Glasgow

The Romantic Comedians, They Stooped to Folly, The Sheltered Life

Glasgow

The Battle-Ground, Virginia, Barren Ground

Glasgow

In This Our Life

Lowell

Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds, Men Women and Ghosts, Pictures of the Floating World

Sandburg

Chicago Poems, Cornhuskers,

O'Neill

Moon of the Caribees, Beyond the Horizon, The Emperor Jones

O'Neill

Anna Christie, The Hairy Ape, Desire Under the Elms

Eliot

The Waste Land, Murder in the Cathedral, The Four Quartets

O'Neill

The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey into Night, A Touch of the Poet

O'Neill

More Stately Mansions

O'Neill

The Great God Brown, Marco Millions, Mourning Becomes Electra

Eliot

The Elder Statesman

Lewis

Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth

Hemingway

In Our Time, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms

Hemingway

Across the River and Into the Trees, The Old Man and the Sea, A Moveable Feast

Hemingway

The Fifth Column and the First Forty Nine Stories, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Hemingway

Islands in the Stream, Garden of Eden

Cather

The Professor's House, Death Comes for the Archibishop, Shadows on the Rock

Wilder

The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth

Wilder

The Eighth Day, Theophilus North

Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury, Sanctuary, Light in August, Hamlet

Faulkner

Absalom Absalom, Go Down Moses, Intruder in the Dust

Faulkner

The Mansion, The Reivers

Faulkner

Requiem for a Nun, A Fable, The Town

Cozzens

The Last Adam, Guard of Honor

Wolfe

You Can't Go home Again,

Welty

A Curtain of Green, Delta Wedding, The Golden Apples

Welty

Losing Battles, The Optimist's Daughter

Steinbeck

East of Eden, The Winter of Our Discontent

Nabokov

Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada

Ashbery

The Tennis Court Oath, Rivers and Mansions, The Double Dream of Spring

Ashbery

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, Hotel Lautreamont

Morrison

Beloved

P. Roth

Deception, American Pastoral, The Dying Animal

P. Roth

The Plot Against America, Exit Ghost

Cooper

The Spy, Pioneers, Last of the Mohicans

Cooper

The Prairie, Pathfinder, The Deerslayer

Longfellow

Hiawatha, Courtship of Miles Standish

Lowell

Tales of a Wayside Inn, Commemoration Ode, Biglow Papers

Lowell

Among My Books

Holmes

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, Elsie Venner, Guardian Angel

Howells

The Lady of Aroostook

Cather

My Antonia, A Lost Lady,

Albee

Tiny Alice, A Delicate Balance

Merwin

The Lice, The Carrier of Ladders, The Rain of the Trees

P. Roth

When She Was Good, My Life as a Man, The Professor of Desire

P. Roth

Zuckerman Unbound

Walker

Meridian,