I was thinking of reading some new novels, do you know anything about American literature?
 Pride and Prejudice is always a classic. It's by Jane Austen
I don't think I've heard of it, can you tell me more about it?
The protagonist is named Elizabeth. You go through her emotional story of making too quick judgements
Interesting, when was this novel released?
The early 1800's, but it was written in the late 1700's
Fascinating, did Jane Austen write any other noteworthy novels?
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
I too - I saw some of myself in him. I don't think it would have gone - I don't think it could go that far. But I got to stand up and say I saw things that he felt, in me - not to go that far and shoot. (Boos and hisses) You can boo but booing's got nothing to do with it. It's a - I just a - I've got to tell you, man, it's Bill of Rights is free speech and