19th Century American Novels You Should Read...Now...Go!

Discover the must-read 19th century American novels that shaped literature. Dive into classics like Moby-Dick, The Scarlet Letter, and more—essential reads for every book lover!

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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A young woman, publicly scorned for bearing an illegitimate child, refuses to be vanquished by the seventeenth-century Boston community.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader contend with Douglass? nineteenth-century style and vocabulary.Born into …
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Walden and Other Writings

by Henry David Thoreau

Introduction by Ralph Waldo Emerson Commentary by Van Wyck Brooks and E. B. White Naturalist, philosopher, champion of self-reliance and moral independence, Henry David Thoreau …
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Moby-Dick

by Herman Melville

Herman Melville’s masterpiece of obsession and the untamed sea, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history—featuring an introduction by Andrew Delbanco and …
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The Rise of Silas Lapham

by William Dean Howells

The Rise of Silas Lapham is a novel written by William Dean Howells in 1885 about the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to …