AMERICAN FICTION
1600-1900
Sehome High School Library
Date: 9/22/2005
F Cooper
Cooper, James
Fenimore, 1789-1851. Leatherstocking
saga.
Pantheon,
1954. Natty Bumppo is the central
figure in these
tales, which were written between
1820 and 1841, in a series
of novels
which were popular at the time. Natty prefers the
moral code
of the Indian to the selfish exploitation of
nature by
white settlers. He is a voluntary outcast who
folllows
the wilderness westward, and one of the favorite
characters
in American literature because of his spirit of
independence and self-sufficiency.
F Cooper
Cooper, James
Fenimore, 1789-1851. The spy;. London, : Dodd,
1946. A Yankee peddler risks his life as a double
agent for
the British
and Americans in Westchester county.
F Howells
Howells, William
Dean, 1837-1920. The rise of Silas
Lapham.
Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books,
1983. Silas becomes wealthy and moves to a
pretentious home
on Beacon
Hill in Boston where he begins to recognize
ethical
standards. His wife, helplessly provincial, is
unable to
guide her daughters' social careers and the family
is
disgraced.
F Irving
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859. Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of
Sleepy
Hollow. Macmillan, 1966. Two American folktales.
Rip Van
Winkle wanders away into the hills prior to the
Revolutionary War where he meets a group of dwarves drinking
from a keg.
He falls asleep and wakes 20 years later, an old
man. The
tale presents contrasts between the new and old
societies
before and after the Revolutionary war. In the
Legend of
Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane, the local
schoolmaster, courts Katrina Van Tassel. The affair is
interrupted
when Crane's rival Brom Bones masquerades as a
headless
horseman and scares the schoolmaster out of town.
F James
James, Henry,
1843-1916. The portrait of a lady. Modern
Library,
1951. Isabel Archer, a romantic,
marries Gilbert
Osmond and
becomes devastatingly disillusioned when she
learns it
was all set up by Osmond's mistress for the sake
of Isabel's
money.
F James
James, Henry,
1843-1916. Short novels. New York, : Dodd, Mead,
[1961]. Daisy Miller.--Washington Square.--The Aspern
papers.--The pupil.--The turn of the screw.
F James
James, Henry,
1843-1916. The turn of the screw ;
and, Washington
Square. Morristown, N.J. : Silver Burdett, [1981].
F James
James, Henry,
1843-1916. The American. Fairfield, N.J. : A. M.
Kelley,
1976, c1907. Christopher Newman,
wealthy American
in France,
hopes to marry Claire de Cintre, daughter of an
aristocratic French family who reject him. He plots revenge
which he
later gives up.
F James
James, Henry,
1843-1916. Daisy Miller. Scribner, 1909. Daisy
Miller.--The Patagonia.--Pandora.
Daisy is an
unsophisticated, pretty girl who acts against the
conventions
of Europeanized Americans who enforce the rules
with
severity.
F Melville
Melville,
Herman, 1819-1891. Selected writings
of Herman
Melville:
complete short stories, Typee [and] Billy Budd,
foretopman. New York, : Modern Library, [1952]. The
Encantadas
or Enchanted isles.--Cock-a-doodle-doo! or The
crowing of
the Noble Cock Beneventano.--The two
temples.--Poor man's pudding and Rich man's crumbs.--The
paradise of
bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids.--The
lightening
rod man.--The happy failure: a story of the River
Hudson.--The fiddler.--Jimmy Rose.--Benito Cereno.--The
bell-tower.--I and my chimney.--The apple tree table or
original
spiritual manifestations.--The Piazza.--Typee.--The
story of
Toby.--Billy Budd, Foretopman.
Selections of three
different
period of Herman Melville's literary history are
represented
in this selection: Typee, his first novel, Billy
Budd, his
last novel, and fifteen short stories.
F Stowe
Stowe, Harriet
Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's
cabin, or, Life
among the
lowly. New York : Barnes & Noble, c1995. The
story of
American slavery and Uncle Tom, an African-American
man who
never lost his dignity under the most inhumane
circumstances.
F Twain
Twain, Mark,
1835-1910. The adventures of Tom
Sawyer. New York
: Grosset
& Dunlap, [1994]. While hanging
around the
cemetery
trying to cure warts with a dead cat, Tom and Huck
witness a
murder and decide to run away to Jackson's island.
After a few
pleasant days of smoking and swearing, they
realize
that the townspeople think them dead. Returning in
time to
hear their funeral eulogies and the accusation of
the wrong person
for the murder, they reveal their
knowledge.
F Twain
Twain, Mark,
1835-1910. A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur's
court. New York : Signet Classics, c2004. A blow on the
head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D.
where he proceeds to
modernize
King Arthur's kingdom by organizing a school
system,
constructing telephone lines, and inventing the
printing
press.
F Twain
Twain, Mark,
1835-1910. Pudd'nhead Wilson. Dover ed.
Mineola,
NY : Dover
Publications, 1999. In 1830, a young
slave girl
switches
her light-skinned infant son with her master's but
when a murder occurs, Pudd'nhead Wilson
compares
fingerprints and brings the murderer and deception to light.
PB Alcott
Alcott, Louisa
May, 1832-1888. Eight cousins. Mahwah, NJ :
Watermill
Press, 1985. Orphaned Rose Campbell
finds it
difficult
to fit in when she goes to live with her six aunts
and seven
mischievous boy cousins.
PB Alcott
Alcott, Louisa
May, 1832-1888. Little women. New York : Bantam,
1989. Chronicles the humorous and sentimental four
March
sisters as
they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century
New
England.
PB Cooper
Cooper, James
Fenimore, 1789-1851. The Pathfinder. [Everyman's
ed.]
reprinted. London, New York, : Dent;
Dutton, 1968.
Natty falls
in love with Mabel Dunham, only to discover she
loves
Jasper Western, a suspected traitor.
PB Cooper
Cooper, James
Fenimore, 1789-1851. The deerslayer,
or, The first
war-path. Albany : State University of New York Press,
c1987. Natty and his friend, Harry, live with the
Deleware
Indians,
fighting the Hurons with the aid of the British.
Natty fails
to become romantically interested in Judith, but
does become
friends with Chief Chingachgook.
PB Crane
Crane, Stephen,
1871-1900. The red badge of courage. New York,
: Grosset
& Dunlap, 1971 [1895]. During his
service in the
Civil War a
young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds
peace of
mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting
emotions
about war.
PB Crane
Crane, Stephen,
1871-1900. Great short works of
Stephen Crane.
New York :
Harper & Row, 1965. Mystery of heroism.--An
episode of
war.--The upturned face.--The open boat.--The
Bride comes
to yellow sky.--The Blue hotel. A
collection of
works that
reflects the range of Crane's writing.
PB Crane
Crane, Stephen,
1871-1900. Maggie, a girl of the
streets and
selected
stories. Limited ed. Franklin Center, Pa. :
Franklin
Library, 1983 [1896].
PB Hawthorne
Hawthorne,
Nathaniel, 1804-1864. The scarlet
letter. New York :
New
American Library, n.d. In seventeenth
century New
England,
Hester Prynne is condemned by Puritan law to wear a
scarlet
"A" as the symbol of the sin she had committed.
PB Hawthorne
Hawthorne,
Nathaniel, 1804-1864. The house of
the seven gables.
Bantam
classic ed. New York : Bantam Books,
1981. Colonel
Pyncheon
had obtained the desirable land on which he built
the
pretentious House of the Seven Gables by accusing its
humble
owner Matthew Maule of witchcraft. Maule, hanged for
his crime,
cursed the Colonel, saying "God will give him
blood to
drink." His descendants live with the curse and the
unpardonable sin: the violation of another's soul.
PB James
James, Henry,
1843-1916. The portrait of a lady. 2nd Modern
Library ed.,
New York ed. New York : Modern Library,
1983,
c1966. Explores the perilous allure of the older
European
civilization and its impact on the American character
through the
person of Isabel Archer.
PB James
James, Henry,
1843-1916. The ambassadors. Hertfordshire,
England :
Wordsworth Editions, Ltd., 1993.
Lambert Strether
is sent by
a wealthy widow to persuade her son Chad to come
home. Chad is involved with a charming
French woman, and
Strether
gradually realizes that life holds more real
meaning for
Chad in Paris than in Woolett, Massachusetts.
PB London
London, Jack,
1876-1916. The sea-wolf. New York, : Horizon
Press,
1969. The ruthless power of Wolf
Larsen, captain of
teh
schooner 'Ghost' is challenged by Humphrey Van Weyden, a
literary
critic, and Maude Brewster, a poet, both of whom he
as rescued.
PB London
London, Jack,
1876-1916. The unabridged Jack
London.
Philadelphia : Running Press, c1981.
Son of the Wolf -- God
of his
fathers -- Children of the Frost -- White Fang -- The
Faith of
Men -- Call of the Wild -- The Sea-Wolf -- Tales of
the Fish
Patrol. Includes the author's major
novels and
short
stories as they appeared in their original form. Each
work is
preceded by a short introduction placing it in a
biographical and chronological context.
PB London
London, Jack,
1876-1916. Jack London's stories of
the North.
New York :
Scholastic, c1965. The White man's way
-- The
Story of
Keesh -- The Sundog trail -- Nam-Bok, the
Unveracious
-- To build a fire -- The Unexpected -- The Wife
of a king
-- The Son of the wolf -- Love of life.
A
collection
of nine of Jack London's best stories of life in
Alaska and
the Yukon during the exciting days of the Gold
Rush.
PB Melville
Melville,
Herman, 1819-1891. Four short
novels. Benito
Cereno.--Billy Budd, foretopman.--Bartleby.--The encantadas.
PB Melville
Melville,
Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick, or,
The white whale.
[Unabridged
ed.]. New York : Dodd Mead, 1979. Captain
Ahab's
determination to find and kill the great white whale
becomes an
obsession driving him to disaster.
PB Melville
Melville,
Herman, 1819-1891. Pierre, or, The
ambiguities ;
Israel
Potter : his fifty years of exile ; The piazza tales
; The
confidence-man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ;
Billy Budd,
sailor : (an inside narrative).
New York, N.Y.
: Literary
Classics of the United States : Distributed to
the trade
in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press, c1984.
Pierre or,
The Ambiquities --Israel Potter, his fifty years
of exile--The
Piazza tales--The confidence-man, his
masquerade--Uncollected prose--Billy Budd, sailor (an inside
narrative).
PB Melville
Melville,
Herman, 1819-1891. Typee, : a peep
at Polynesian life
during a
four month's residence in a valley of the
Marquesas. New York : New American Library, 1964. The hero
and friend
Toby are captured by cannibals. Toby escapes
while the
hero, suffering from a leg wound, is nursed by the
lovely
Fayaway.
PB Melville
Melville,
Herman, 1819-1891. Billy Bud, sailor
and selected
tales. New York : Oxford University Press,
1997. Bartleby,
the scrivener -- Cock-a-doodle-doo!
-- The fiddler -- The
paradise of
bachelors and the tartarus of maids -- The
lightning-rod man -- The Encantadas, or, Enchanted Isles --
Benito
Cereno -- I and my chimney -- Billy Budd, sailor.
Outwardly a
compelling narrative of events aboard a British
man-of-war
during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Bill
Budd,
Sailor is a nautical recasting a parable of good and
evil and a
searching portrait of three extraordinary men.
PB Poe
Poe, Edgar
Allan, 1809-1849. Ten great
mysteries by Edgar Allan
Poe. New York : Scholastic, 1989. The Murders in the Rue
Morgue --
The Purloined Letter -- The Tell-tale Heart -- The
Facts in
the Case of M. Valdemar -- The Pit and the Pendulum
-- A Tale
of the Ragged Mountains -- A Descent into the
Maelstrom -
The Black Cat -- "Thou Art the Man" --
Metzengerstein.
PB Twain
Twain, Mark,
1835-1910. The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn. New
York :
Airmont Books, 1962. The complete and
unabridged
story of a 19th-century boy, floating down the
Mississippi
River on a
raft with a runaway slave.
PB Twain
Twain, Mark,
1835-1910. Pudd'head Wilson.
PB Twain
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Mahwah,
NJ :
Watermill, 1980. While hanging around
the cemetery
trying to
cure warts with a dead cat, Tom and Huck witness a
murder and
decide to run away to Jackson's island. After a
few
pleasant days of smoking and swearing, they realize that
the
townspeople think them dead. Returning in time to hear
their
funeral eulogies and the accusation of the wrong
person for
the murder, they reveal their knowledge.
SC Cable
Cable, George
W. Old Creole days. New York : Heritage, 1943
[1906]. Madame Delphine.--Cafe
des Exiles.--Belles
Demoiselles Plantation.--Posson
Jone.-Jean-Ah
Poquelin.--Tite Poulette.--Sieur George.--Madame Delicieuse.
Capturing
the romance and flavor of flamboyant New Orleans
at the turn
of the eighteenth century, the author's stories
treat the
taboo subjects of race and intermarriage. This
book was
vehemently denounced in the South and highly
acclaimed
in the North and abroad.
SC Crane
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900. Stories and tales. New York : Random
House, 1955
[1897]. Men in the storm.--An
experiment in
misery.--Maggie: a girl of the streets.--George's
mother.--Howells fears realists must wait.--On the New
Jersey
coast.--A mystery of heroism.--The upturned face.--An
episode of
war.--Stephen Crane's vivid story of the battle
of San
Juan.--The open boat.--The wreck of the
Commodore.--Stephen
Crane's own story.--The bride comes to
yellow
sky.--The blue hotel.--The knife.--His new mittens.
SC Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald, F.
Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.
Before Gatsby :
the first
twenty-six stories. Columbia : University of
South
Carolina Press, 2001. Jemima, the
mountain girl --
Babes in
the woods -- Tarquin of Cheapside -- The debutante
-- The four
fists -- Dalyrimple goes wrong -- The smilers --
Porcelain
and pink -- Benediction -- The cut-glass bowl --
Head and
shoulders -- Mr. Icky: the quintessence of
quaintness
in one act -- Myra meets his family -- The ice
palace -- The camel's back -- Bernice bobs
her hair -- The
offshore
pirate -- May Day -- The jelly-bean -- The Lees of
happiness
-- His russet witch -- Two for a cent -- The
diamond as
big as the Ritz -- The popular girl -- Winter
dreams. A collection of
twenty-six stories by F. Scott
Fitzgerald.
SC Harte
Harte, Bret,
1836-1902. Best of Bret Harte. New York :
Houghton,
1947. The luck of Roaring
camp.--Tennessee's
partner.--Brown of Calaveras.--How Santa Claus came to
Simpson's
Bar.--The idyll of Red Gulch.--Mrs. Skagg's
husbands.--High-water mark.--A protegee of Jack
Hamlin's.--Wan Lee, the pagan.--The
postmistress of Laurel
Run.--An
ingenue of the Sierras .--The bell-ringer of
Angel's.--A
passage in the life of Mr. John
Oakhurst.--Miggles.--Colonel Starbottle for the
plaintiff.--The outcasts of Poker Flat.--Dick Byle's
business
card.--Left out on Lone Star Mountain.--Plain
language
from Truthful James.
SC Hawthorne
Hawthorne,
Nathaniel, 1804-1864. The celestial
railroad and
other
stories. New York : New American
Library, 1963.
Roger
Malvin's burial -- My kinsman, Major Molineux -- The
wives of
the dead -- The gray champion -- Wakefield -- The
ambitious
guest.--The Young Goodman Brown.--The minister's
black
veil.--The maypole of Merry Mount.--The great
carbuncle.--Dr. Heidegger's experiment.--Lady Eleanore's
mantle.--Egotism or the bosom serpent.--The celestial
railroad.--The birthmark.--Rappaccini's daughter.--The snow
image:
childish miracle. By means of weird,
yet inescapably
convincing
fables, Hawthorne explores the corroding desires
of superior
men and women who when thwarted in their quest
for
perfection, become compelled to commit evil in the name
of pride.
SC Hawthorne
Hawthorne,
Nathaniel, 1804-1864. The great
stone face, & two
other
stories. New York, : Houghton,
1935. The great stone
face.--The
ambitious guest.--The great carbuncle.--Sketches
from
memory. These short writings take place
in the White
Hills in
New Hampshire. The Great Stone face is the story of
how a boy
grows to look like the "human face" on the side of
a mountain.
Ambitious guest is the story of a family who
lived on
the slope of a mountain where they are destroyed by
a disaster.
The Great Carbuncle shows the actual experiences
out of
which he formed his imaginative stories.
SC Hawthorne
Hawthorne,
Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Twice-told
tales. New York :
Houghton,
1889. The gray champion--Sunday at
home--The
wedding-knell--The minister's black veil--The May-Pole of
Merry
Mount.--The gentle boy.--Mr. Higginbotham's
catastrophe.--Little Annie's ramble.--Wakefield.--A rill
from the
town pump.--The great carbuncle.--The prophetic
pictures.--David Swan.--Sights from a steeple.--The hollow
of the
three hills.--The toll-gatherer's day.--The vision of
the
fountain.--Fancy's show box.--Dr. Heidegger's
experiment.--Legends of the province house: Howe's
Masquerade,
Edward Randolph's portrait, Lady Eleanore's
mantle, Old Esther Dudley.--The
haunted mind.--The village
uncle.--The
amibitious guest.--The sister
years.--Snowflakes.--The seven vagabonds.--The white old
maid.--Peter Goldthwaite's treasure.--Chippings with a
chisel.--The Shaker bridal.--Night sketches.--Endicott and
the Red
Cross.--The lily's quest.--Footprints on the
seashore.--Edward Fane's rosebud.--The threefold destiny.
SC Irving
Irving,
Washington, 1783-1859. The Bold
dragon and other ghostly
tales. Knopf, 1967.
The Bold Dragon-- The Devil and Tom
Walker--
Wolfert Webber or Golden Dreams-- Guests from
Gibbet Island--
DolphHeyliger.
SC London
London, Jack,
1876-1916. Short stories : by Jack
London. New
York : Hill
and Wang, 1960 [1945]. Love of Life.--
To Build
A Fire.--
The Apostate.-- The Chinago.-- Make westing.--
Semper
Idem.-- A Curious Fragment.-- The Whale Tooth.---
Mauki.--
Yah! Yah! Yah!.-- Good-By, Jack.-- Aloha Oe.-- The
Eternity of
Forms.-- Told in the Drooling Ward.-- the
Strength of
the Strong.-- South of the Slot.-- The
Unparalleled Invasion.-- the Sea Farmer.
SC Poe
Poe, Edgar
Allan, 1809-1849. The Complete tales
& poems of Edgar
Allan Poe. New York : Modern Library, 1965. The
unparalleled adventure of one Hans Pfaall.--The gold
bug.--The
balloon-hoax.--Von Kemplen and his
discovery.--Mesmeric revelation.--The facts in the case of
M. Valdemar.--The
thousand-and-second tale of
Scheherazade.-- MS. found in a bottle.--A descent into the
Maelstrom.--The murders in the Rue Morgue.--The mystery of
Marie
Roget.--The purloined letter.--The black cat.--The
fall of the
House of Usher.--The pit and the pendulum.--The
premature
burial.--The masque of the red death.--The cask of
Amontillado.--the imp of the perverse.--The island of the
fay.--The
oval portrait.--The assignation.--The tell-tale
heart.--The
system of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether.--The
literary
life of Thingum Bob, Esq.--How to write a blackwood
article.--A
predicament.--Mystification.--X-ing a
paragraph.--Diddling.--The angel of the odd.--Mellonta
tauta.--Loss of breath.--The man that was used up.--The
business
man.--Maelzel's chess-player.--The power of
words.--The
colloquy of Monos and Una.--The conversation of
Eiros and
Charmion.--Shadow--A parable.-- Silence-A
fable.--Philosophy of furniture.--A tale of Jerusalem.--The
Sphinx.--The man of the crowd.--Never bet the devil your
head.--"Thou Art the Man".--Hop-Frog.--Four beasts in one;
The
Homo-Camelopard.--Why the little Frenchman wears his
hand in a
sling.--Bon-Bon.--Some words with a mummy.--Review
of Stephens'
"Arabia Petraea".--Magazine-writing-Peter
Snook.--The
Quacks of Helicon-A satire.--Astoria.--The
domain of
Arnheim, or the Landscape Garden.--Landor's
Cottage.--William
Wilson.--Berenice.--Eleonora.--Ligeia.--Morella.--Metzengerst
ein.--A
tale of the ragged mountains.--The spectacles.--The
Duc De L
Omelette.--The oblong box.--King pest.--Three
Sundays in
a week.--The devil in the
belfry.--Lionizing.--Narrative of A. Gordon
Pym.
SC Richter
Richter, Conrad,
1890-1969. Early Americana and other
stories.
Boston :
Gregg Press, 1978, c1936. Early
Americana.--Smoke
over the
prairie.--New home.--Long drouth.--Frontier
woman.--As
it was in the beginning.--Buckskin vacation.--The
square
piano.--Early marriage. Stories of
frontier and
pioneer
life in 19th century America.