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American Classics

Classics with a setting in America. May also be called 'Great American Novels.'

Please also reference Classics and Classic Literature.
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The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Scarlet Letter
East of Eden
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
The Old Man and the Sea
Fahrenheit 451
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
The Sun Also Rises
Slaughterhouse-Five

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D.H. Lawrence
We like to think of the old-fashioned American classics as children's books. Just childishness, on our part. The old American art-speech contains an alien quality, which belongs to the American continent and to nowhere else. But, of course, so long as we insist on reading the books as children's tales, we miss all that. One wonders what the proper high-brow Romans of the third and fourth or later centuries read into the strange utterances of Lucretius or Apuleius or Tertullian, Augustine or At ...more
D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature

Smedley D. Butler
Victory or defeat will be determined by the skill and ingenuity of our scientists. If we put them to work making poison gas and more and more fiendish mechanical and explosive instruments of destruction, they will have no time for the constructive job of creating greater prosperity for all peoples.
Smedley D. Butler, War Is a Racket

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