American novels adapted into operas

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book centers on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, Moby-Dick was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as a Great American Novel was established only in the 20th century, after the

1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian and American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The protagonist and narrator is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He details his obsession with and victimization of a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he describes as a "nymphet". Humbert kidnaps and sexually abuses Dolores after becoming her stepfather. Privately, he calls her "Lolita", the Spanish diminutive for Dolores. The novel was written in English, but fear of censorship in the U.S. (where Nabokov lived) and Britain led to it being

1939 novel by John Steinbeck

1937 novella by John Steinbeck

1826 novel by James Fenimore Cooper

novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1977 novel by Stephen King

1950 novel by Ray Bradbury

1993 novel by Lois Lowry

1925 novel by Theodore Dreiser

1898 novella by Henry James

1979 novel by William Styron

1992 novel [non-genre] by Stephen King

novel by James M. Cain

novel by Theodore Dreiser

novella by Herman Melville

1962 science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle

novel attempted by Mark Twain

1998 novel by Michael Cunningham

1981 novel by Philip K. Dick

1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren

novel by Tom Wolfe

novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1989 edition

novel by Michael Chabon

novel by Richard Condon

1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis

1902 novel by Henry James

novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer

1993 science fiction novel by Octavia E. Butler

novel by William S. Burroughs

novel by Herman Melville

novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1821 novel by James Fenimore Cooper

1912 western novel by Zane Grey

novel by Saul Bellow

story book by Kate DiCamillo

novel by Herman Melville

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, otherwise known as simply McTeague, is a novel by Frank Norris, first published in 1899. It tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty and violence as the result of jealousy and greed. The book was the basis for the films McTeague (1916) and Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1924). It was also adapted as an opera by William Bolcom in 1992.

novel by Edith Wharton

1997 novel by Charles Frazier