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The Rise of David Levinsky
The Rise of David Levinsky is a 1917 novel by Abraham Cahan following a Russian Jewish immigrant's rise from poverty to wealth in New York's garment trade.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner's 1929 modernist novel, tells the decline of the Compson family of Yoknapatawpha County in four sections narrated by Benjy, Quentin, Jason, and a Dilsey-centered finale.
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta in the 1927 British edition) is Ernest Hemingway's 1926 first major novel about Jake Barnes, Brett Ashley, and expatriates in Paris and Pamplona, defining the Lost Generation.
The Trial
The Trial (German: Der Process) is an unfinished novel by Franz Kafka, written in 1914–1915, in which Josef K. is arrested for a crime never revealed to him.
The Unvanquished
The Unvanquished is a 1938 novel by William Faulkner, his tenth, following young Bayard Sartoris and his family through the Civil War and Reconstruction in Mississippi.
The Waves
The Waves (1931) is Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel, published by the Hogarth Press; six characters, Bernard, Neville, Louis, Susan, Rhoda, and Jinny, speak soliloquies framed by sea interludes, with the silent Percival at the group's center.
This Side of Paradise
This Side of Paradise (1920) is F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel, a semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman following Princeton student Amory Blaine through romance, war, and disillusionment at the dawn of the Jazz Age.
To Have and Have Not
To Have and Have Not is Ernest Hemingway's 1937 Scribner's novel about Key West smuggler Harry Morgan during the Depression; built from two magazine stories, poorly reviewed, best known through Howard Hawks's 1944 Bogart-Bacall film.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf's 1927 Hogarth Press novel about the Ramsay family on Skye, told in three parts (The Window, Time Passes, The Lighthouse) through stream of consciousness, with Lily Briscoe and a ten-year time gap distinguishing it from her other novels.
Tobacco Road (novel)
Tobacco Road is Erskine Caldwell's 1932 novel about the destitute Lester sharecropper family near Augusta, Georgia, during the Depression; it drew eugenics scholarship, censorship efforts, and a record 3,182-performance Broadway run.
Tortilla Flat
Tortilla Flat is a 1935 novel by John Steinbeck portraying paisano drifters in a hillside district above Monterey, California, after World War I, his first successful novel.
Two Solitudes
Two Solitudes (Deux Solitudes) is a 1945 novel by Canadian writer Hugh MacLennan about tensions between English- and French-speaking Canadians, which won the Governor General's Award.
Ulysses (novel)
Ulysses, James Joyce's 1922 modernist novel published by Sylvia Beach in Paris, follows Leopold Bloom through Dublin on 16 June 1904 in 18 episodes paralleling Homer's Odyssey; serialized in The Little Review, censored, and celebrated on Bloomsday.
Women in Love
Women in Love is D. H. Lawrence's 1920 novel, a sequel to The Rainbow following Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen and their relationships with Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich, first published privately in New York.
You Can't Go Home Again
You Can't Go Home Again is a 1940 novel by the American writer Thomas Wolfe, assembled from his manuscripts by editor Edward C. Aswell after Wolfe's death in 1938.