The Independence Day Collection: 30 Best American Revolution Novels
Patriot and Loyalist Intrigue, Naval Adventure, and Tales of America's FoundingBy Charles Carleton Coffin, James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Winston Churchill, Rafael Sabatini, Randall Parrish, Alexandre Dumas, S. Weir Mitchell, Cyrus Townsend Brady, Robert W. Chambers, John Pendleton Kennedy, Frank Baird, Bret Harte, Alfred Henry Lewis, Joseph A. Altsheler, James Francis Barrett, Herbert Baird Stimpson, Jeanie Gould Lincoln, Sarah J. Prichard, Maurice Thompson, James Otis, Hezekiah Butterworth, John Esten Cooke, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Neilson Stephens, Amelia E. Barr, Maturin M. Ballou
Length298h 25m
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The Independence Day Collection: 30 Best American Revolution Novels assembles a capacious imaginative archive of the struggle for independence and its afterlives. Adventure romance, sea narrative, frontier tale, historical melodrama, political fiction, and morally searching romance converge to portray revolution as both public upheaval and intimate trial. Episodes of espionage, military campaigning, divided loyalties, colonial society, and the contested promise of liberty reveal the genre's range, while canonical historical fiction stands beside once-popular works that broaden the period's literary map. Its contributors span nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American historical writing, with notable transatlantic and popular-romance connections, bringing distinct regional memories and narrative conventions to the founding era. These writers draw upon the traditions of Romantic historical fiction, the Waverley-influenced novel, boys' adventure literature, and American nationalism, yet their varied treatments complicate any single patriotic account. Collectively, they transform the Revolution into a field of inherited myths, personal sacrifice, social conflict, and national self-definition. This volume is especially rewarding for readers seeking to compare how different generations fictionalized America's origin story. It offers students and general readers a valuable panorama of historical narrative, inviting attention to shifting ideas of heroism, citizenship, race, class, and allegiance. Read together, these novels create a vigorous dialogue between literary forms and competing visions of independence.
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GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length298 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Rise and Fall of Austria or the Habsburg Empire (Annotated)
26Chapter XXIII
2The Spy
27Chapter XXIV
3Author’s Introduction
28Chapter XXV
4Chapter I
29Chapter XXVI
5Chapter II
30Chapter XXVII
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6Chapter III
31Chapter XXVIII
7Chapter IV
32Chapter XXIX
8Chapter V
33Chapter XXX
9Chapter VI
34Chapter XXXI
10Chapter VII
35Chapter XXXII
11Chapter VIII
36Chapter XXXIII
12Chapter IX
37Chapter XXXIV
13Chapter X
38Chapter XXXV
14Chapter XI
39The Pilot
15Chapter XII
40PREFACE.
16Chapter XIII
41CHAPTER III.
17Chapter XIV
42CHAPTER VI.
18Chapter XV
43CHAPTER VIII.
19Chapter XVI
44CHAPTER X.
20Chapter XVII
45CHAPTER XII.
21Chapter XVIII
46CHAPTER XIV.
22Chapter XIX
47CHAPTER XVI.
23Chapter XX
48CHAPTER XVIII.
24Chapter XXI
49CHAPTER XX.
25Chapter XXII
50CHAPTER XXII
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