(the) great American novel
- (the) great American novel
the great American novel [the great American novel]
any novel that is regarded as having successfully represented an important time in US history or one that tells a story that is typical of America. Many US writers have tried to write such a book and The Great American Novel is the title of novels by William Carlos Williams
(1923
) and Philip Roth
(1973
). Books that are considered to deserve to be called ‘the great American novel’ include ↑
Huckleberry Finn, ↑
Gone with the Wind and ↑
Grapes of Wrath.
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