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Little Women
1868

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four
March sisters as they grow into young women
in nineteenth-century New England.

 

Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
1895

A young soldier overcomes his cowardice
to become a hero on the battlefield.

 

 

Russell Banks
Cloudsplitter
1998

Pulitzer and PEN/Faulkner award-winning finalist.
The life of radical abolitionist John Brown,
narrated by his last surviving son, told through letters.

 

Charles Frazier
Cold Mountain
1998

A wounded Confederate deserter
returns home to the southern mountains.

 

 

Edward P. Jones
The Known World
2003 

A former slave becomes a
slave owner in the Antebellum South.

 

Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
2004

In a letter to his son, John Ames reveals the life
of his father, a Christian pacifist, and grandfather,
a radical abolitionist and chaplain with the Union Army.

 

 

Robert Hicks
The Widow of the South
2005

Based on the true story of Carrie McGavock
who reburied 1500 fallen soldiers on her own property.