American Literature

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1

Edgar Allan Poe

The volume gathers the fantasy‑inflected horror and detective stories that have made Edgar Allan Poe a…

The call of the wild

Jack London

Jack London’s story opens in the lush, sun‑kissed estate of Judge Miller, where the massive St.

Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast

Holman Day

The novel opens on a mist‑shrouded New England harbor, where the taciturn Captain Mayo is tasked with…

The Cask of Amontillado

Edgar Allan Poe

The story is a compact horror tale that opens with a narrator’s cold confession of a long‑held grudge against…

The Dunwich horror

H. P. Lovecraft

The Dunwich Horror is a work of early twentieth‑century American fantasy fiction that blends horror with a…

I am a woman

Ann Bannon

The novel is a mid‑century American romance that follows Laura, a young woman who flees an abusive,…

Twenty Years of Hus'ling

J. P. Johnston

Twenty Years of Hus'ling is a first‑person memoir of entrepreneurial hustle written by James Perry Johnston,…

Changeling, and Other Stories

Donn Byrne

Don Byrne’s Changeling, and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction rooted in Irish social life, first…

Hungry Hearts

Anzia Yezierska

Hungry Hearts is a collection of short stories that foregrounds the lives of Jewish immigrants on New York’s…

Moods

Louisa May Alcott

The novel opens with a lyrical reference to the Lady of Shalott before slipping into a domestic scene where…

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott’s work is an autobiographical‑tinged domestic novel that follows the March sisters as they…

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass is a sprawling celebration of the self and the nation, presented as a series of lyrical…

Roughing It

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s Roughing It is a first‑person travelogue that chronicles a series of episodic adventures across…

White Fang

Jack London

The opening of Jack London’s White Fang plunges the reader into a stark, frozen wilderness where a sled team…

The Prairie Wife

Arthur Stringer

Arthur Stringer’s The Prairie Wife is a first‑person narrative that situates itself firmly in the Canadian…

The call of Cthulhu

H. P. Lovecraft

The Call of Cthulhu is a horror tale that begins with a philosophical meditation on humanity’s fragile grasp…

The Candidate: A Political Romance

Joseph A. Altsheler

The Candidate: A Political Romance is a work of political fiction that follows a campaign trail set against…

The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories

Kate Chopin

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories is a late‑19th‑century work that places its characters in the…

Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The work is a sprawling memoir that blends travelogue with social observation, penned by Elizabeth Cady…

The Shunned House

H. P. Lovecraft

The Shunned House is a horror tale set in nineteenth‑century New England, opening with a richly detailed…

Torchy and Vee

Sewell Ford

Torchy and Vee is a collection of short, humor‑tinged stories set against the backdrop of World War I…

The Damned Thing 1898, From "In the Midst of Life"

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce’s “The Damned Thing,” first published in 1898 as part of his collection In the Midst of Life,…

A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill

Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

A Romance of Billy‑Goat Hill is a regional novel set in a lush Kentucky spring, where the old Carsey mansion,…

The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story

The volume gathers the most notable American short stories published in 1917, accompanied by a comprehensive…