Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is a collection of interlocking stories concerned with small town life in turn-of-the-century Ohio.

John Sugden's biography of Tecumseh, Tecumseh: A Life, was published in 1998. Sugden presents the cultural clashes, struggles, and bloody conflicts caused by westward expansion.

As I Lay Dying, the 1930 novel by William Faulkner, explores the impact and death of a family matriarch.

Virginia Woolf s To The Lighthouse (1927) cemented its author's reputation as one of the preeminent novelists of the twentieth century. Woolf s novel concerns a family who travel to a holiday home before and after the death of the family matriarch.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is James Joyce's experimental 1916 novel about the development of Stephen Dedalus. Like Green, Joyce uses linguistic innovation to convey the experience of maturation.