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24 titles for readers of Hesper by Hamlin Garland, selected for shared themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR).

AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

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Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

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The Web and The Root (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

A Pen Warmed-Up in Hell: Mark Twain in Protest — Mark Twain

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Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

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Erskine Caldwell

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Smithsonian Institution — Gore Vidal

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Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Great Short Works of Henry James — Henry James

Great Short Works of Henry James

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters Seymour : an Introduction — Jerome David Salinger

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Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

You Can’t Go Home Again — Thomas Wolfe

You Can’t Go Home Again

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

It Can’t Happen Here — Sinclair Lewis

It Can’t Happen Here

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Gospel According to the Son — Norman Mailer

The Gospel According to the Son

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Talk Talk — T.C. Boyle

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

On the Road — Jack Kerouac

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Americana — Don DeLillo

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Waterworks — E.L. Doctorow

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Magnificent Ambersons (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) — Booth Tarkington

The Magnificent Ambersons (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

Booth Tarkington

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Last Flower – A Parable in Pictures — James Thurber

The Last Flower – A Parable in Pictures

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Love Story — Erich Segal

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

A Landscape-Painter and Other Tales: 1864-1874 (Penguin Classics) — Henry James

A Landscape-Painter and Other Tales: 1864-1874 (Penguin Classics)

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Madame Delphine (1881) — George W Cable

Madame Delphine (1881)

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Dragon Seed (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck) — Pearl S. Buck

Dragon Seed (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck)

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Across the River and Into the Trees — Ernest Hemingway

Across the River and Into the Trees

Ernest Hemingway

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

To Have and Have Not (Scribner Classics) — Ernest Hemingway

To Have and Have Not (Scribner Classics)

Ernest Hemingway

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Fans of Hesper by Hamlin Garland will find 24 titles here, all united by AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR). Authors represented include Booth Tarkington, Thomas Wolfe, Mark Twain, Erskine Caldwell, and others.

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