American Literature

Jersey Street and Jersey Lane: Urban and Suburban Sketches

H. C. Bunner

Jersey Street and Jersey Lane: Urban and Suburban Sketches is a series of short, observational vignettes that…

Bocetos californianos

Bret Harte

Este libro es una recopilación de cuentos cortos del escritor estadounidense Bret Harte, centrados en la vida…

Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants; or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers

H. Irving Hancock

Uncle Sam’s Boys as Lieutenants is a juvenile fiction tale set in the United States Army, written by H.

Frank Merriwell's Races

Burt L. Standish

The opening places Frank Merriwell, the archetypal all‑American college hero, amid a noisy stable where his…

At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern

Myrtle Reed

At its heart, this is a light‑hearted, slightly absurd tale of a newly married couple thrust into the…

The Black Wolf Pack

Daniel Carter Beard

The Black Wolf Pack is a hybrid of detective intrigue and frontier adventure, introduced through a tangled…

Bloom of Cactus

Robert Ames Bennet

Bloom of Cactus is a Western adventure that thrusts the reader straight into the harsh, sun‑baked landscape…

Herland

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The novel is a speculative adventure that begins with a first‑person narrator recalling a lost cache of field…

A Little Union Scout

Joel Chandler Harris

This work is a juvenile historical narrative that frames the adventures of a Union scout through the lens of…

Play the Game!

Ruth Comfort Mitchell

Play the Game! is a domestic drama that centers on Honor Carmody, a spirited young girl caught between the…

Parodies of the works of English & American authors, vol. II

This volume presents a nineteenth‑century compilation of literary parodies, assembled by Walter Hamilton and…

Three Margarets

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Three Margaret Montforts, young women bound by family, name and circumstance, meet for the first time aboard…

Her mother's secret

Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

The novel is a nineteenth‑century domestic melodrama that opens in the drawing‑room of the Force family…

Dwellers in Arcady: The Story of an Abandoned Farm

Albert Bigelow Paine

The novel opens with a wandering family’s first glimpse of a long‑neglected New England farm, described in…

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Herman Melville

The work is a sprawling, encyclopedic meditation on the whale, presented as a patchwork of lexicons,…

1900; or, The last President

Ingersoll Lockwood

Lockwood’s 1900 novel, 1900; or, The Last President, is a political thriller set against an imagined crisis…

Daisy Miller: A Study

Henry James

The work is a psychological study set amid the genteel tourist world of Vevey, Switzerland, where a bustling…

The Rose-Garden Husband

Margaret Widdemer

The Rose‑Garden Husband is a domestic fiction that opens inside a bustling city library, where the narrator,…

An American Robinson Crusoe for American Boys and Girls

Samuel B. Allison

This work is a juvenile adaptation of the classic Robinson Crusoe tale, reshaped by Samuel B.

A Book of Burlesques

H. L. Mencken

The work is a collection of burlesque sketches assembled by H. L.

Air Service Boys Flying for Victory; Or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold

Charles Amory Beach

Air Service Boys Flying for Victory is a wartime adventure aimed at younger readers, set amid the closing…

The Telegraph Messenger Boy; Or, The Straight Road to Success

Edward Sylvester Ellis

The story opens with a vivid scene on a riverbank in a small town where the narrator, a telegraph office…

Little Brother

Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother is a near‑future thriller that plunges the reader into a San Francisco still…

Margaret Montfort

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

The novel opens in a genteel country house where the affectionate uncle‑nephew pair, Mr.