What book is considered the great American novel?

Answer 1

The Grapes of Wrath

Answer 2

There are several books that are known as the Great American Novel - The Great Gatsby; The Grapes of Wrath; Huckleberry Finn; To Kill a Mockingbird; Moby Dick, The Catcher in the Rye and Slaughterhouse Five.

Answer 3

Well, the greatest American novel I've read would have to be Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. It's long, but a classic in America.

Answer 4

Huckleberry Finn is generally considered that, but I would say it was The Great Gatsby or Of Mice and Men- perfect scorns of 'The American Dream' (i.e. the dream to be rich and successful)

Answer 5

The only one that truly qualifies is "The Great American Novel" (Yes that's the title.) by Phillip Roth. (One of Roth's characters, by the way, rates all the other candidates for great American novel.)

Answer 6

The Land

if you have not read this, you SHOULD!!! it is a great book. it is hard to explain why it is a great American novel, but it is, once you read it, you will understand.

Sorry I forgot to say that it was written by Mildred D. Taylor

Answer 7

The Great Gatsby

Answer 8

the great american novel is an idea that's supposed to mean the book embodies the american spirit. all of these have been given as examples::

roots by arthur haley
moby dick by herman melville
uncle tom's cabin by harrier beecher stowe
huckleberry finn and tom sawyer by mark twain
gone with the wind ( can't remember the writer)
last of the mohicans
last of the plainsmen

Answer 9

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. It's a true American novel and great, great book.

Answer 10

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain