Introduction -- The Deerslayer, by J. F. Cooper -- The scarlet letter, by N. Hawthorne -- Moby Dick, by H. Melville -- Huckelberry Finn, by M. Twain -- The ambassadors, by H. James -- The age of innocence, by E. Wharton -- The big money, by J. Dos Passos -- Tender is the night, by F. S. Fitzgerald -- The sun also rises, by E. Himingway -- The sound and the fury, by W. Faulkner -- Guard of honor, by J. G. Cozzens -- All the king's men, by R. P. Warren.
