ocr: / - - - The American Novel Great novels provide a window into everyday expenence. The classics of American literature take place in settings as diverse as a Puritan village (Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter),a mysterious whaling ship (Melville's Moby-Dick), the frozen Klondike (London's Call of the Wild), and the streets of Harlem (Ellison's Invisible Man). These and other great works recreate the unique ways of life that define the national character. Background
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