Four Classic American Novels
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Herman Melville
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE SCARLET LETTER
An intensely charged tale of Puritan morality, hypocrisy, guilt and final painful expiation.
Mark Twain's THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
Stephen Crane's THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE
The story of a Civil War soldier's initiation into battle.
Herman Melville's BILLY BUDD
A timeless allegory of good vs. evil by the author of Moby Dick.
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"IT IS A LITTLE REMARKABLE that-though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends-an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public."
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The Scarlet Letter
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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The Red Badge of Courage
- Billy Budd
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