20 Timeless Classics: Exploring American History Through Fiction
Twenty Classic Tales of Colonial America, War, Reconstruction, and the FrontierBy William Makepeace Thackeray, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Francis Lynde, S. Weir Mitchell, Stephen Crane, John Jr. Fox, Augusta J. Evans, George Washington Cable, Joseph A. Altsheler, Sherwood Anderson, Henry Peterson, Albion Winegar Tourgée, Mary Johnston, G. A. Henty, Gustave Aimard, Randall Parrish
Length255h 21m
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20 Timeless Classics: Exploring American History Through Fiction gathers historical romance, frontier adventure, regional realism, Civil War narrative, social critique, and psychological fiction into a capacious literary survey of the American past. Moving from colonial encounters and the contested borderlands to sectional conflict, Reconstruction, industrial modernity, and small-town life, the volume reveals how fiction converts public history into lived experience. Standout modes include the frontier tale's mythic energy, the war story's compressed intensity, and the regional sketch's attention to speech, custom, and place. Its contributors represent a broad transatlantic and American tradition of popular and canonical historical writing. Novelists associated with romance, local-color fiction, naturalism, reform literature, and adventure bring distinct assumptions about race, class, gender, nationhood, and progress to their depictions of America. Together, these voices illuminate the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries' competing narratives of expansion, memory, reconciliation, and social change, while also demonstrating how literary forms helped shape historical consciousness. This collection is especially valuable for readers seeking multiple entry points into American history without sacrificing narrative pleasure. Students, general readers, and scholars alike will find an instructive dialogue among contrasting styles and ideological perspectives. Read comparatively, these works encourage reflection on the difference between history as record and history as imaginative reconstruction, making the volume both an engaging anthology and a rich resource for literary and cultural study.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length255 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Unitarianism in America (Annotated)
220 Timeless Classics: Exploring American History Through Fiction
3The Last of the Mohicans
4INTRODUCTION
5CHAPTER 3
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6CHAPTER 6
7CHAPTER 8
8CHAPTER 10
9CHAPTER 12
10CHAPTER 14
11CHAPTER 16
12CHAPTER 18
13CHAPTER 20
14CHAPTER 22
15CHAPTER 24
16CHAPTER 26
17CHAPTER 28
18CHAPTER 30
19CHAPTER 32
20The Master of Appleby
21CHAPTER I IN WHICH I WHET MY FATHER'S SWORD
22IV WHICH MAY BE PASSED OVER LIGHTLY
23VIII IN WHICH I TASTE THE QUALITY OF MERCY
24XIII IN WHICH A PILGRIMAGE BEGINS
25XVIII IN WHICH WE HEAR NEWS FROM THE SOUTH
26XXIII HOW WE KEPT THE FEAST OF BITTER HERBS
27XXVIII IN WHICH I SADDLE THE BLACK MARE
28XXXII IN WHICH I AM BEDDED IN A GARRET
29XXXVII OF WHAT BEFELL AT KING'S CREEK
30XL VAE VICTIS
31XLV IN WHICH WE FIND WHAT WE NEVER SOUGHT
32XLIX IN WHICH A LAWYER HATH HIS FEE
33The Red City
34A NOVEL OF THE SECOND ADMINISTRATION OF WASHINGTON
35III
36VI
37IX
38XI
39XIII
40XVI
41XX
42XXII
43XXVI
44XXVII
45L'envoi
46The Red Badge of Courage
47CHAPTER I.
48CHAPTER II.
49CHAPTER III.
50CHAPTER IV.
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