Four Classic American Novels
Contributors: Willard Thorp (Editor)
Edition: 1st printing (13)
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 1971?
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780451520296
Copyright date: 1969
Subjects: Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction / General
Other titles: The Scarlet Letter / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / The Red Badge of Courage / Billy Budd
First sentence: 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.
Description: 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.
--back cover
Notes: 451 CE2029
US/CAN