Four Classic American Novels: The Scarlet Letter; Huckleberry Finn; The Red Badge of Courage; Billy Budd

by Willard Thorp (Introduction), Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain

Sweeping readers from the New England colonies to the banks of the Mississipppi, to the battle fields of the Civil War to the storm tossed waters of the Atlantic, this extraordinary collection is ideal-and most economical-for classrooms, libraries, and homes.

Genres: Fiction, Classics, Literature, Novels, American

736 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 1, 1969

Reviews

[Nicholas Whyte]

http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1192910.html[return][return]I guess I was just not in the mood for this. I found the archaic language tedious, the moral dilemmas artificial and not very interesting, and the portrayal of Puritan society unrealistic; I also was repelled by the author's lengthy autobiographical digression about working in the custom-house at the start. Well, one more nineteenth-century classic that I will never have to pick up again...

[Melissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have only read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and I liked it. The large amount of racism in the book is hard to swallow and I am sure I would have enjoyed it more if I was a kid but other than that it is a nice adventure story. I will say the language is a bit tough to get through since the author writes the word the way the characters would have pronounced them.

[Caitlyn]

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1992)

[Amber]

Still trudging through the classics.

[Jack · Rating 3 out of 5]

only read Scarlet letter and Huck Finn