Sample Readings: Novels

(listed chronologically)

Susanna Rowson, Charlotte Temple (1791, 1794)

Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly (1799)

James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (1826)

Catharine Sedgwick, Hope Leslie (1827)

Susan Warner, The Wide, Wide World (1850)

Herman Melville, Moby Dick (1850)

Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall (1855)

María Ampara Ruiz de Burton, Who Would Have Thought It? (1872)

Louisa May Alcott, Work (1873)

Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881)

Frances Harper, Iola Leroy (1893)

Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)

Frank Norris, McTeague (1899)