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Who were the first three American novelists of major literary statue in the early nineteenth century? James Fenimore Cooper Mark Twain Herman Melville Robert Penn Warren John Steinbeck Harriet Beecher Stowe Nathaniel Hawthorne

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James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne were the first three American novelists of major literary statue in the early nineteenth century.


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James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne
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