American literature By Petr Tomčiak

What can you expect 10 authors 20 books 5 citations

James Fenimore Cooper (1789 – 1851) historical and romantic novels Wealthy family The Last of the Mohicans Leatherstocking Tales

Edgar Allan Poe ( ) Inventor of detective fiction, sci-fi Alcoholism The Raven and Other Poems The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) Halley‘s Comet Romanticism The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Jack London ( ) Naturalism Socialist Rover White Fang The Call of the Wild

Ernest Hemingway ( ) „lost generation“ Nobel prize Suicide For Whom the Bells Tolls The Old Man and the Sea

Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940) „lost generation“ „jazz age“ Hollywood scriptwriter The Great Gatsby Tender Is the Night

William Faulkner (1897 – 1962) Naturalism Nobel prize National book award The Sound and the Fury Absalom! Absalom!

William Saroyan (1908 – 1981) Imagination-reality Pulitzer Prize – refused! Tracy‘s Tiger The Human Comedy

Jack Kerouac (1922 – 1969) „beat generation“ Drugs, alcoholism Prisoner On the Road The Town and the City

William Styron (1925 – 2006) 2nd world war Holocaust, rasism Pulitzer Prize Sophie’s Choice Lie Down in Darkness

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. 'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door - Only this, and nothing more.‚ E. A. Poe – The Raven

For an hour the old man had been seeing black spots before his eyes and the sweat salted his eyes and salted the cut over his eye and on his forehead. He was not afraid of the black spots. They were normal at the tension that he was pulling on the line. Twice, though, he had felt faint and dizzy and that had worried him. “I could not fail myself and die on a fish like this,” he said. E. Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea

Well, he’d had the tiger beside him most of his life, but never before had anything like this happened. Never before had anybody else seen the tiger. Was it possible now that the tiger was actually being seen by other, by everybody? W. Saroyan – Tracy‘s Tiger

About half way between West Egg and New York the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. F. S. Fitzgerald– The Great Gatsby

” Late that same morning— a sunny June Sunday— I heard their voices on the other side of the door, rousing me from sleep. Nathan’s voice, then Sophie’s: “Stingo, wake up. Wake up, Stingo!” W. Styron – Sophie‘s Choice

On the Road The Last of the Mohicans Sophie’s Choice The Sound and the Fury Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

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