American Literature

The Mask: A Story of Love and Adventure

Arthur Hornblow

The opening places the reader in a richly described New‑York townhouse, where a bustling breakfast scene…

Stanford Stories: Tales of a Young University

Field, Charles K. (Charles Kellogg); Irwin, Will

Stanford Stories is a collection of short fiction that paints a picture of campus life before the…

The easiest way: A Story of Metropolitan Life

Walter, Eugene; Hornblow, Arthur

The novel is a melodramatic social study of a fallen woman who tries to escape her “scarlet past” through a…

The Biography of a Grizzly

Ernest Thompson Seton

Ernest Thompson Seton’s The Biography of a Grizzly is a juvenile‑fiction narrative that follows the early…

The Squirrel-Cage

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The work is a domestic‑social novel set in late‑nineteenth‑century Ohio, tracing the rise of the Emery family…

The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army

Margaret Vandercook

Margaret Vandercook’s novel is a wartime adventure aimed at young readers, weaving together the experiences…

The Highgrader

William MacLeod Raine

The Highgrader opens aboard an ocean liner at dusk, its glass‑smooth sea and mist‑shrouded horizon setting a…

Glory of Youth

Temple Bailey

Glory of Youth is a domestic drama that foregrounds the tangled emotions of a young woman caught between…

The Forester's Daughter: A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range

Hamlin Garland

The novel is a Western romance set in the rugged Bear‑Tooth Range of Colorado, where a stagecoach line…

The Madigans

Miriam Michelson

The Madigans is a domestic drama that centers on the fierce rivalries and coded rituals of a large,…

Ladies-In-Waiting

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Ladies‑in‑Waiting presents itself as a collection of short stories centered on the theme of courtship, each…

The Beloved Woman

Kathleen Thompson Norris

The Beloved Woman is a 1921 novel by Kathleen Norris that opens amid a fierce New York snowstorm, using the…

The Young Alaskans

Emerson Hough

The Young Alaskans is a juvenile adventure set in the newly founded town of Valdez, where the arrival of the…

Chester Rand; or, The New Path to Fortune

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Chester Rand, or The New Path to Fortune is a late‑nineteenth‑century American novel that blends the themes…

Ride Proud, Rebel!

Andre Norton

The work is a juvenile‑fiction narrative set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, written by Andre…

The Yacht Club; or, The Young Boat-Builder

Oliver Optic

The Yacht Club; or, The Young Boat‑Builder is a juvenile adventure set in the bustling maritime world of…

Shorty McCabe

Sewell Ford

Shorty McCabe is a comic, first‑person yarn set in the bustling underbelly of early‑20th‑century New York.

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

The novel opens amid the glittering ritual of a New York winter opera, where society’s elite arrive in…

In Her Own Right

John Reed Scott

In In Her Own Right John Reed Scott weaves a tale of love, adventure, and intrigue set against the backdrop…

The Expressman and the Detective

Allan Pinkerton

The work is a nonfiction narrative that blends a detailed case study of a mid‑nineteenth‑century…

From Farm to Fortune; or, Nat Nason's Strange Experience

Horatio Alger, Jr.

From Farm to Fortune; or, Nat Nason's Strange Experience is a nineteenth‑century American novel that pits…

The Lion's Mouse

Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris); Williamson, A. M.

The novel is an adventure story that also explores a tense man‑woman relationship, as indicated by its…

Make or Break; or, The Rich Man's Daughter

Oliver Optic

The work is a juvenile moral tale set in post‑Civil‑War Boston, where the author frames his story as a…

The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation

Annie F. Johnston

The Little Colonel’s Christmas Vacation is a juvenile boarding‑school story that opens with a sweeping…