American Literature

A Young Man in a Hurry, and Other Short Stories

Robert W. Chambers

The volume is a collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers, whose work often captures the rhythms of…

Bambi

Marjorie Benton Cooke

The work is a stage‑play‑like novel that centers on Bambi, a witty and self‑assertive young woman, and her…

Where the Souls of Men are Calling

Credo Fitch Harris

This novel is a World War‑I era work of fiction that opens in the imagined American town of Hillsdale, a…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

The work is an extended essay in which Henry David Thoreau launches his argument for a government that…

Montezuma's Castle, and Other Weird Tales

Charles B. Cory

Montezuma’s Castle, and Other Weird Tales is a short‑story collection by Charles B.

Macaria

Augusta J. Evans

The novel opens in a sweltering Southern night, where a candle‑lit ledger glows over the shoulders of a…

The Flaming Jewel

Robert W. Chambers

The Flaming Jewel is a crime‑driven adventure set in the Adirondack woods of early twentieth‑century New…

Patty's Friends

Carolyn Wells

Patty’s Friends is a juvenile fiction set in the bustling social world of turn‑of‑the‑century London, where…

The Eagle's Heart

Hamlin Garland

The Eagle’s Heart is a Western tale that opens in the modest town of Rock River, where ten‑year‑old Harold,…

Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good

Albert Walter Tolman

The novel is a youthful adventure set in a New England academy at the close of spring, where three friends,…

Sonnie-Boy's People

James B. Connolly

Sonnie‑Boy’s People is a collection of short sea stories that opens with a vivid, sun‑baked scene on a…

Tin-types taken in the streets of New York: A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life

Lemuel Ely Quigg

The work is a series of vignettes that capture the bustling, often chaotic life of turn‑of‑the‑century New…

Betty Wales, Senior

Edith K. Dunton

The novel is the senior installment of Edith K. Dunton’s “Betty Wales” series, a continuation of the…

Clematis

Cobb, Bertha B. (Bertha Browning); Cobb, Ernest

The rogue elephant

Elliott Whitney

The story opens as a brisk, business‑like correspondence between a German taxidermist, Dr.

Adrift in the Wilds; Or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys

Edward Sylvester Ellis

The novel is a brisk, adventure‑filled tale of two teenage cousins, Elwood Brandon and Howard Lawrence, who…

The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp

Katherine Stokes

The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp is a juvenile‑fiction tale set in an Adirondack summer retreat, introduced…

Fibble, D.D.

Irvin S. Cobb

The work is a comic sketch in the guise of a memoir, presented as the first‑person account of a…

Mosses from an old manse

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The work is a short‑story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne that opens with an elaborate, almost lyrical…

Helen and Arthur; or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel

Caroline Lee Hentz

Helen and Arthur; or, Miss Thusa’s Spinning Wheel is a mid‑nineteenth‑century work of fiction by Caroline Lee…

Ben Comee: A tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59

M. J. Canavan

Ben Comee: A Tale of Rogers’s Rangers, 1758‑59 is a historical novel that weaves personal family memory with…

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth is a social and psychological novel set in turn‑of‑the‑century New York, where the…

Three millions!: or, The way of the world

Oliver Optic

The work is a juvenile‑fiction tale that follows the fortunes of John Hungerford, a self‑made Baltimore…

The uncalled: A novel

Paul Laurence Dunbar

The novel opens on a bleak winter morning in the small Ohio town of Dexter, where a dilapidated house…