colonial times? wtf ok books with this time period

I'm doing an english assignment, and I need to read 3 books that have something in common, and the common thing with mine was "colonial times" I think it's called 'colonial', the Jane Eyre setting time period.
do you know of any books set in this time period? that aren't like, young adult, I need mature books....
any ideas? thanx

 

logan's run

 

I'm not sure if these are from the right time period exactly, but they are somewhat similar to Jane Eyre and are roughly during the same time period as Charlotte Bronte:

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Anything by Jane Austen
Anything by Charles Dickens (although I liked Tale of Two Cities best)
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Indiana - George Sand

These probably aren't considered "Colonial Books", I'm not really sure, but they are all books that I enjoyed.

 

hehehehe anything by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

 

Hi,

Try 'Emma' by Jane Austen, it's not bad.
Wuthering Heights - Charlotte Bronte.
Found Pride & Prejudice hard going, but liked Sense & Sensibility - also Jane Austen?
Good luck! Hope you find something you enjoy

 

Isn't Mark Twain or was that a little later?

 

Yeah, I was kind of thinking Mark Twain too. I love him.

By the way, Wuthering Heights was by Emily Bronte, not Charlotte. And Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility are both by Austen.

 

We_All_Shine_On,

The 'age' you describe sounds post-colonial to me. It sound like you are talking about the 'Regency' period. That's the post-Georgian pre-Victorian age.

'Vanity Fair' is an early 'Victorian' novel about the 'Regency' period. It's written by Makepeace Thackery. He's like Dickens with attitude.

 

a recent novel of the revolutionary war era as experienced in the southern colonies (esp. georgia) is _the hornet's nest_ by jimmy carter
(yes, the former president of the usa)
(you can prolly get it at your local public library right now!)

 

oh, and there's alway _the autobiography of benjamin franklin_

 

ok so whats the fastest read of all the above mentioned? lol sorry to ask that of you all, but I'm totally fucked. Does Emily have the same writing style as Charlotte?

THNX!