Pbs: The American Novel: Literary Timeline: Novels: 1929: The Sound and the Fury

Brief Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Highlights the novel's themes, setting, and main characters.

Introduction to John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Highlights main ideas and themes of the novel.

Brief introduction to The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane. Highlights the novels setting and style.

Brief introduction to the setting and characters of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

Background on the literary time period known as Modernism, including characteristics of writing at this time as well as a list of important modernist authors.

Brief introduction to Uncle Tom's Cabin, highlighting the novel's important themes, setting, and main characters.

Brief biography of American author Richard Wright.

Brief background on the Postmodern literary movement, including characteristics of the movement as well as as list of popular postmodern authors.

Brief biography of American author Zora Neale Hurston.

Biography of American author Herman Melville, including information on his personal life and literary career.