I love the great American novel.
American literature is fantastic!  It started as part of a tradition of English literature!
Ahh, I see.  I particularly am fond of "To Kill a Mockingbird".
That's a fantastic novel!  It was published in 1960
Yes, it really is a good one.  I liked Harper Lee's second novel, too, but it was quite controversial.
new literary figures emerged, perhaps most prominently Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe. In 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson started an influential movement known as Transcendentalism. Inspired by that movement, Henry David Thoreau wrote "Walden", which celebrates individualism and nature and urges resistance to the dictates of organized society. The political conflict surrounding abolitionism inspired the writings of William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe in her famous novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin". These efforts were supported by the continuation of the slave narratives such as Frederick Douglass's
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. Instantly successful, widely read in high schools and middle schools in the United States, it has become a classic of modern American literature, winning the Pulitzer Prize. The plot and characters are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family, her neighbors and an event that occurred near her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1936, when she was 10 years old.
The novel is renowned for its warmth and