 | Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea (Modern Library Classics) by Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Buy new: $10.10 / Used from: $1.49 One of the great early breakouts in realism from pre-civil war era
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 | Benito Cereno (Bedford College Editions) by Herman Melville
Buy new: $6.07 / Used from: $3.54 Melville's contribution to the genre ranks as high as anything since in depth and craftsmanship
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 | Brady's Civil War: A Collection of Civil War Images Photographed by Matthew Brady and his Assistants by Webb Garrison
Buy used from: $3.54 After public exhibition of these pictures, American culture was never the same
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 | Winslow Homer: Paintings of the Civil War by Marc Simpson
Buy used from: $13.00 Standing tall amidst the ruins of an age of sentiment, and looming still
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 | The Red Badge of Courage & "The Veteran" (Modern Library Classics) by Stephen Crane
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $0.01 The Civil War seen from ground level; breakthrough text in the American realist movement
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 | The Rise of Silas Lapham (Penguin Classics) by William Dean Howells
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.50 The great grand-daddy and theorist of the school
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 | Thomas Eakins by Darrell Sewell
Buy new: $57.37 / Used from: $8.85 A still not properly understood American master
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 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy new: $7.00 / Used from: $0.13 The Rosetta stone of modern American literature
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 | The Aspern Papers and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) by Henry James
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $0.83 A master of psychology and nuance, at his most accessible
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 | The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Buy new: $4.50 / Used from: $0.01 Long-neglected masterpiece from the end of century 19
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 | Ives: An American Journey by Michael Tilson Thomas
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.85 Get to know Ives, the 19th century equivilent of a microphone
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 | McTeague (Signet Classics) by Frank Norris
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $2.00 What Norris did best nobody to date does better
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 | An American Tragedy (Signet Classics) by Theodore Dreiser
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.44 A literary elephant at his most elephantine, murky, and true
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 | The Sea Wolf by Jack London
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 Tough sea tale not just for boys
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 | The Paintings of Edward Hopper by Edward Hopper
Buy used from: $440.00 The early century 20 master of the American scene
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 | To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $10.55 / Used from: $2.94 Hemingway being true to his school, from the depression 30s
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 | Sanctuary: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $1.49 Uncle Bill poaches on the plantation, messing around with it big time
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 | The Professor's House (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $2.99 Willa at top form, bone dry and unflinching
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 | Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $9.50 A kid with a moving picture camera gets into the act
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 | Follow Me Down: A Novel by Shelby Foote
Buy new: $8.01 / Used from: $0.68 Gritty, dark courtroom drama set in the south, keeping realism aglow in our time
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 | Rabbit Redux by John Updike
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.78 Updike, after some wavering, plants the flag of American realism firmly in the early 1970s. Long may it wave.
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