Henry James
The Red Badge of Courage
Mark Twain
Stephen Crane
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Jack London
The Call of the Wild
The Portrait of a Lady
This Civil War novel realistically depicts the psychological complexities of battlefield emotion.
He stayed in Hannibal until age 17, on the Mississippi River. He was a licensed steamboat pilot and served in the Confederate Army for 2 weeks. His novel "The Innocents Abroad" became a nationwide bestseller.
A novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri.
Living a bohemian lifestyle among local artists, he gained firsthand familiarity with poverty and street life. He is also known for authoring Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.
Published in 1903, this novel is about a powerful dog, half St. Bernard and half sheepdog, which lives on Judge Miller’s estate in California.
He wrote 20 novels, 112 tales, 12 plays, several volumes of travel and criticism, and a great deal of literary journalism. His year’s wandering in Europe set the stage for a lifetime writing about those countries.
He had weathered a harrowing sealing voyage, one in which a typhoon had nearly taken out London and his crew. After using this story to take part in a writing contest, with just an eighth-grade education, he won the $25 first prize beating out college students.
Published in 1881, this novel tells us about a woman in her early twenties who comes from a genteel family in Albany, New York, in the late 1860s.