Major WritersRepresentative Works
Samuel Clemens, fiction The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi
"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses",
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Henry James, fiction "Daisy Miller,"Portrait of A Lady, The American, The Turn of the Screw

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Kate Chopin, fiction The Awakening
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George Washington Cable, fiction The Grandissimes, Old Creole Days