American Literature

The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow gathers every poem the author chose to preserve,…

The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe Including Essays on Poetry

Edgar Allan Poe

The volume gathers every poem and verse that Edgar Allan Poe ever wrote, from the familiar “The Raven” and…

The Great K. & A. Robbery

Paul Leicester Ford

The work is a fictional account of a celebrated train robbery, framed as a personal memoir by Paul Leicester…

Essays — First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays, First Series is a collection of Ralph Wallace Emerson’s early American essays, first published in the…

The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

The piece is a gothic horror tale set against a deadly plague that has ravaged the nation, described in…

Baseball Joe in the Big League; or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles

Lester Chadwick

The novel is a juvenile adventure that follows the young pitcher Joseph “Joe” Matson as he wrestles with the…

The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The novel opens in 1913 with the introspective young heir Anthony Patch, a twenty‑five‑year‑old who balances…

The best short stories of 1922, and the yearbook of the American short story

The volume is a curated anthology of American short fiction published between October 1921 and September…

The sound and the fury

William Faulkner

The novel is a work of psychological and domestic fiction set in Mississippi, focusing on a family’s tangled…

The Old Stone House and Other Stories

Anna Katharine Green

The collection opens with a vivid, first‑person wander through a forgotten stone house deep in a New York…

A Prisoner of Morro; Or, In the Hands of the Enemy

Upton Sinclair

A short‑story adventure set against the backdrop of the 1898 Spanish‑American War, Sinclair’s A Prisoner of…

The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus

Horatio Alger, Jr.

The work is a late‑nineteenth‑century novel that blends the themes of inheritance and the conduct of life…

Fables in Slang

George Ade

George Ade’s Fables in Slang is a mischievous collection that blends the traditional moral tale with the…

Space Platform

Murray Leinster

Space Platform is a mid‑century American science‑fiction adventure that opens with a tense, claustrophobic…

Rootabaga Stories

Carl Sandburg

Rootabaga Stories is a whimsical collection of American fairy‑tale sketches that begins with the odd,…

The Young Adventurer; or, Tom's Trip Across the Plains

Horatio Alger, Jr.

The Young Adventurer; or, Tom’s Trip Across the Plains is a nineteenth‑century American yarn that blends…

The Rainy Day Railroad War

Holman Day

The Rainy Day Railroad War is a gritty, dialogue‑driven tale set amid the construction of a new railway line.

'Drag' Harlan

Charles Alden Seltzer

The work is a Western adventure that throws the reader straight into an unforgiving desert landscape.

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson is a sprawling nineteenth‑century novel that intertwines legal…

Boy Life Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells

The volume is a curated anthology of William Dean Howells’s juvenile stories, assembled in 1909 for school…

American Poetry, 1922: A Miscellany

American Poetry, 1922: A Miscellany presents itself as the second biennial volume of an experimental…

The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories

Joaquin Miller

The work is a 19th‑century American tale of frontier life, set among the gold‑seeking families of the Sierra…

Benjamin Franklin: Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes

Benjamin Franklin

This volume is a scholarly anthology that gathers the most extensive selection of Benjamin Franklin’s…

The best short stories of 1918, and the yearbook of the American short story

The volume is a scholarly anthology that gathers what its editor, Edward J.