APPENDIX B: “NOVELS DESCRIPTIVE OF AMERICAN LIFE” (NOVEMBER 1908)

An interesting and profitable course running parallel with a course in history, sociology, biology, or poetry could be arranged by reading some of the following novels dealing in a serious spirit with American character and life:

Simms’s “The Partisan”

Cooper’s “The Spy”

Hawthorne’s “The House of the Seven Gables”

Cable’s “Old Creole Days,” “The Grandissimes”

Howells’s “The Rise of Silas Lapham,” “A Hazard of New Fortunes”

Eggleston’s “A Hoosier Schoolmaster”

Bret Harte’s “Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Stories”

Mary Hallock Foote’s “The Led-Horse Claim”

Octave Thanet’s “Heart of Toil,” “Stories of a Western Town”

Wister’s “The Virginian,” “Lady Baltimore”

F. Hopkinson Smith’s “The Fortunes of Oliver Horn”

Thomas Nelson Page’s Short Stories and “Red Rock”

Mrs. Deland’s “Old Chester Tales”

J. L. Allen’s “Flute and Violin,” “The Choir Invisible”

Frank Norris’s “The Octopus,” “The Pit”

Garland’s “Main Travelled Roads”

Miss Jewett’s “Country of the Pointed Firs,” “The Tory Lover”

Miss Wilkins’s “New England Nun,” “Pembroke”

Churchill’s “The Crisis,” “Coniston,” “Mr. Crewe’s Career”

Brander Matthews’s “His Father’s Son”

S. Weir Mitchell’s “Hugh Wynne”

Fox’s “The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come”

Mrs. Wharton’s “The House of Mirth”

Robert Grant’s “Unleavened Bread”

Robert Herrick’s “The Common Lot,” “The Memoirs of an American Citizen”

Grace F. King’s “Balcony Stories”