Four Great American Classics (The Scarlet Letter, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of Courage, Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories)

778 Pages·1992·2.84 MB·English

by  Nathaniel Hawthorne

CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
FOUR CLASSIC NOVELS BY FOUR OF AMERICA’S GREATEST AUTHORS
THE SCARLET LETTER
AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
THE CUSTOM HOUSE INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER 1 THE PRISON–DOOR
CHAPTER 2 THE MARKET–PLACE
CHAPTER 3 THE RECOGNITION
CHAPTER 4 THE INTERVIEW
CHAPTER 5 HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
CHAPTER 6 PEARL
CHAPTER 7 THE GOVERNOR’S HALL
CHAPTER 8 THE ELF–CHILD AND THE MINISTER
CHAPTER 9 THE LEECH
CHAPTER 10 THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
CHAPTER 11 THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
CHAPTER 12 THE MINISTER’S VIGIL
CHAPTER 13 ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
CHAPTER 14 HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
CHAPTER 15 HESTER AND PEARL
CHAPTER 16 A FOREST WALK
CHAPTER 17 THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
CHAPTER 18 A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
CHAPTER 19 THE CHILD AT THE BROOK–SIDE
CHAPTER 20 THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
CHAPTER 21 THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
CHAPTER 22 THE PROCESSION
CHAPTER 23 THE REVELATION
CHAPTER 24 CONCLUSION
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
CHAPTER XXIX
CHAPTER XXX
CHAPTER XXXI
CHAPTER XXXII
CHAPTER XXXIII
CHAPTER XXXIV
CHAPTER XXXV
CHAPTER XXXVI
CHAPTER XXXVII
CHAPTER XXXVIII
CHAPTER XXXIX
CHAPTER XL
CHAPTER XLI
CHAPTER XLII
CHAPTER THE LAST
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
CHAPTER 22
CHAPTER 23
CHAPTER 24
BILLY BUDD, SAILOR
BILLY BUDD, SAILOR
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
CHAPTER 22
CHAPTER 23
CHAPTER 24
CHAPTER 25
CHAPTER 26
CHAPTER 27
CHAPTER 28
CHAPTER 29
CHAPTER 30
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FOUR CLASSIC NOVELS BY FOUR OF AMERICA’S GREATEST
AUTHORS
The Scarlet Letter, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of
Courage, and Billy Budd, Sailor, were all written in the fifty years between 1850
and the turn of the century. Each novel stresses a different handling of the genre,
each takes a different approach to content, character, and style, yet each produces
a masterpiece that touches universal human experience—and in a uniquely
American way. From Nathaniel Hawthorne’s self-proclaimed “romance” of
sensuality and sin to the contemporary naturalism of Stephen Crane’s great war
novel, these four great American classics are literature of unsurpassed
excellence, each a unique revelation of a facet of America’s complex national
character.