The Classic American novel and the movies

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Discusses the movies that were based on the following books: The last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, The scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The house of the seven gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Little women by Louisa May Alcott, The adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, Daisy Miller by Henry James, Washington Square by Henry James, The prince and the pauper by Mark Twain, The red badge of courage by Stephen Crane, Billy Budd by Herman Melville, The turn of the screw by Henry James, McTeague by Frank Norris, Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, The wonderful wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, The Virginian by Owen Wister, The sea wolf by Jack London, Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington, Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, An American tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The sun also rises by Ernest Hemingway, Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis, Little Caesar by W.R. Burnett, A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway, and The sound and the fury by William Faulkner.