American Classic Bookclub (Englishen_US)
This comprehensive collection of must read American classics includes famous books that are part of the school curriculum throughout the U.S. and many more.
This collection contains: 44 books
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Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil,... A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
A special 75th anniversary edition of the beloved American... New York Times Bestseller
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding... An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood... This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new... Dune (English)
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Josh...A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America's most enduring authors, in... NOW AN HBO FILM STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND MICHAEL SHANNON
Sixty years after its originally... Since its original publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind —winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one... Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told... A milestone in American literature—a book that has continued to engage readers since its... Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts, and lost souls. These stories tell of... This authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (1868-69) of Little Women is accompanied by... The classic novel by William Golding
With a new Introduction by Stephen King
"To me Lord of the... A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fantastical sea captain,... "A story of the hardships of a bitter winter in the American west, this is also a stirring tribute... In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel,... A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression, in a deluxe centennial... The legendary novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation, now in... Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's... A special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, "a desperate, painfully... The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's... Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English... Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath. Here, in the... "The Awakening" is the story of Edna Pontellier, an attractive young wife and the mother of two... The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously... Fall in love with one of the bestselling novels of all time — the legendary love story that became... A classic novel of adventure, drawn from London's own experiences as a Klondike adventurer,... The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" ( The New Yorker ) that established J. D. Salinger as a... The inspiration for the new film adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical
Celebrate the... A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community
A Penguin Classic... Thomas Pynchon's classic post-modern satire, which tells the wonderfully unusual story of Oedipa... The celebrated master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe brought his nightmare imaginings to life in... The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes... A true classic of twentieth-century literature, this edition has been updated by Fitzgerald... A black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the... ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL NOVELS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
'This novel is a packet of... First published serially in 1905, "The Jungle" is American journalist Upton Sinclair's... Told in language of great simplicity and power, this story of courage and personal triumph remains... Regarded by many as Henry James's finest work, and a lucid tragedy exploring the distance between... Introduction by Kathryn Harrison
Commentary by Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. D. Howells, and Carl Van... A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst... Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read
Harper Lee's Pulitzer... Introduction by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Commentary by Van Wyck Brooks and E. B. White
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