American Literature

De Ongelikte Beer

Jack London

Dit boek is een sportieve vertelling over de wereld van de prijsboksers, verteld vanuit het perspectief van…

Seven Miles to Arden

Ruth Sawyer

The novel opens in the women’s free ward of a city hospital, where the spirited actress Patsy O’Connell,…

Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage

Samuel Hopkins Adams

Little Miss Grouch is a rambling, dialogue‑heavy narrative that opens on a bustling pier as the newly…

The Story of Leather

Sara Ware Bassett

The work is a juvenile novel that follows the inner turmoil of Peter Coddington, a talented athlete whose…

Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike

Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Roy Blakeley's Bee‑line Hike is a raucous slice of early‑20th‑century Boy Scout fiction, written by Percy…

American Cookery November, 1921

Various

American Cookery Vol. XXVI, November 1921, is a trade‑style magazine that markets a wide range of…

Murder in the Gunroom

H. Beam Piper

Murder in the Gunroom is a detective mystery that opens with the sudden, suspicious death of Lane Fleming, a…

The Blood of the Conquerors

Harvey Fergusson

The Blood of the Conquerors is a western tale that follows Ramon Delcasar, a proud yet conflicted Mexican of…

The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

This volume gathers Walt Whitman’s poems that celebrate America’s wars, its aftermath, and its democratic…

Hidden Gold

Wilder Anthony

Hidden Gold is a Western tale that thrusts the reader into a clash of cattle and sheep on the open range.

The Young Bridge-Tender; or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle

Edward Stratemeyer

The Shadow World

Hamlin Garland

The Shadow World is a nonfiction memoir of spiritualist investigation, written by Hamlin Garland after…

Little Grandfather

Sophie May

The work is a juvenile fiction story that weaves Christian values into the everyday life of a New‑England…

Little Lost Sister

Virginia Brooks

Virginia Brooks’s Little Lost Sister is a socially charged novel set against the industrial backdrop of…

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics

Various

The December 1867 issue of The Atlantic Monthly presents a sprawling, serialized narrative that reads like a…

Baseball Joe Around the World; or, Pitching on a Grand Tour

Lester Chadwick

The work is a juvenile adventure novel that follows the celebrated pitcher Joe as he naviges the swirling…

Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810

Edward Ziegler Davis

Edward Z. Davis’s work is a scholarly bibliography that gathers every German‑language poem that appeared in…

Randy of the River; Or, The Adventures of a Young Deckhand

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Randy of the River is a juvenile adventure that follows a bright‑minded fourteen‑year‑old carpenter’s son as…

Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Volume I

This anthology gathers the most representative pieces of American wit, from the celebrated sketches of…

Poems Household Edition

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This volume assembles virtually the entire body of poems that Ralph Waldo Emerson released in his 1876…

Ben's Nugget; Or, A Boy's Search For Fortune

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Ben Stanton’s tale begins amid the rugged foothills of a California gold‑rush mining camp, where three…

It's like this, cat

Emily Neville

The book is a slice‑of‑city juvenile novel that opens with a vivid portrait of a New York family living in a…

The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe

The work is a short gothic horror tale that begins with a lone narrator riding through a bleak autumn…

An American Suffragette

Isaac Newton Stevens

The novel opens on a bustling New York pier where a crowd of newspaper men jostles for a glimpse of the…