Category
page 1Novels set in Canada

The Fur Country
1873 novel by Jules Verne

The Grizzly King
1916 novel by James Oliver Curwood

Kazan
1914 novel

Clotel
'''''Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States''''' is an 1853 novel by United States author and playwright William Wells Brown about Clotel and her sister, fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson. Brown, who escaped from slavery in 1834 at the age of 20, published the book in London. He was staying after a lecture tour to evade possible recapture due to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. Set in the early nineteenth century, it is considered the first novel published by an African American and is set in the United States. Three additional versions wer