American Literature

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

Herman Melville

The novel is a sprawling sea‑faring adventure that folds whaling lore, psychological tension, and biblical…

The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers

The King in Yellow is a late‑nineteenth‑century American collection of short stories that blends speculative…

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The novel is a psychological study set among the affluent circles of Long Island, exploring first loves,…

Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy

Louisa May Alcott

The novel is an autobiographical‑style domestic fiction that follows the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and…

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

The book is a humorous, coming‑of‑age adventure that follows Huck Finn as he slips away from the Widow…

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete

Mark Twain

The work is a humorous bildungsroman that follows the misadventures of Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy in a…

Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau’s work combines two of his most celebrated essays, Walden and “On the Duty of Civil…

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The story is a first‑person psychological sketch that opens with a newly‑wed couple, John, a pragmatic…

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s “Life on the Mississippi” is a first‑hand travel memoir that plunges the reader into the gritty…

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

The work is an autobiographical account attributed to Benjamin Franklin, the eighteenth‑century American…

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a work of historical and psychological fiction that foregrounds…

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2

Edgar Allan Poe

The volume gathers Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, fantasy fiction, and horror tales, all rooted in…

Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude

Austin Bidwell

Austin Bidwell’s Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison is a first‑person confession that blends criminal…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a juvenile fantasy that sets out as a deliberately modernized “wonder tale,”…

The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story

The volume is a bibliographic anthology that gathers the most noteworthy American short stories published in…

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s tale is a blend of fantasy fiction, satire, and Arthurian parody, set up from the very first…

A farewell to arms

Ernest Hemingway

The novel opens on a summer‑time front line where a house overlooks a river, a plain of crops, and distant…

Thuvia, maid of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The novel is a science‑fiction romance set on the red planet, where the royal courts of Martian nations clash…

That Girl Montana

Marah Ellis Ryan

That Girl Montana is a Western tale set in the rugged Kootenai Valley at the turn of the twentieth‑century,…

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving

Washington Irving’s tale is a short work of early‑American fiction that blends ghostly legend with a vivid…

Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader

Louise Manly

Louise Manly’s Southern Literature From 1579‑1895 is a scholarly anthology that gathers biographical…

A Pickle for the Knowing Ones

Timothy Dexter

The work is a self‑published memoir of Timothy Dexter, a New England merchant whose life spanned the…

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

Harriet A. Jacobs

The work is an autobiographical narrative by Harriet A. Jacobs, presented under the pseudonym Linda Brent,…

What Will People Say? A Novel

Rupert Hughes

What you have here is a social‑drama set in 20th‑century New York, cataloguing the tangled relationships of a…