American novels
Fiction from America
Novels written by American authors or set in America, typically exhibiting themes central to the American experience—identity, race, class, the frontier, immigration, the American Dream.
The term appears in literary discussion and academic contexts: We're reading American novels this semester.
The Great Gatsby is among the most celebrated American novels.
- fictionImagined narrative work
- FitzgeraldPatronymic from Gerald
- Roaring TwentiesProsperous 1920s era
- FaulknerAmerican modernist author
- TwainArchaic word for two
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- American LiteratureThe Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Moby Dick
- fictionfiction, novellas, short story, fairy tales, fables
- literary movementsRomanticism, Realism, Modernism, Surrealism, Symbolism
American novelsBritish novels
Fiction from the UK
English novels · British literature · Russian novels · French novels · Chinese novels
American novelsoral literature
Unwritten narrative traditions
folk tales · world literature · ancient epics · classical literature · traditional narratives
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