American Literature

A War-Time Wooing: A Story

Charles King

The work is a Civil‑War romance set against the backdrop of Union triumph in September 1862.

The best short stories of 1921, and the yearbook of the American short story

This volume assembles what its editor deems the most vital short fiction published in American periodicals…

A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia

Alice Turner Curtis

A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia is a juvenile historical narrative set in 1778, when British forces under…

Lady Luck

Hugh Wiley

The novel opens in a bustling Memphis train station, where the narrator, a street‑wise figure who calls…

Babbitt

Sinclair Lewis

The novel opens with a sweeping portrait of a bustling, modern city, its neon‑lit railways, towering…

Mary Jane's City Home

Clara Ingram Judson

The novel follows the Merrill family as they trade a quiet Midwestern town for the bustling streets of…

Spoon River Anthology

Edgar Lee Masters

Spoon River Anthology is a collection of brief, first‑person monologues that together form a portrait of a…

Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)

Woolson, Constance Fenimore; Bunner, H. C. (Henry Cuyler); De Forest, John William; Foote, Mary Hallock; Willis, Nathaniel Parker

The volume opens with a self‑conscious narrator who, fresh from a literary triumph and a comfortable life in…

Oldtown Fireside Stories

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Oldtown Fireside Stories is a slice‑of‑19th‑century New England fiction that gathers the oral traditions of a…

Winning His Way

Charles Carleton Coffin

Winning His Way is a nineteenth‑century historical novel that blends frontier settlement life with the…

My Ántonia

Willa Cather

The novel is a work of frontier fiction set in Nebraska, threading together themes of pioneer life,…

Little Grandmother

Sophie May

Little Grandmother is a juvenile tale that blends Christian moral instruction with everyday family life in a…

The American Language A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States

H. L. Mencken

The work is a scholarly inquiry into how English has changed since it crossed the Atlantic, written by the…

Martin Eden

Jack London

Martin Eden is an autobiographical bildungsroman that follows a rough‑shod young sailor thrust into the…

The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The novel is a historical romance that weaves together the domestic concerns of a New‑England family with a…

The Boy Patriot

Edward Sylvester Ellis

The Boy Patriot is a juvenile historical tale set in early‑19th‑century New England, where the fledgling town…

Flip's "Islands of Providence"

Annie F. Johnston

Flip’s “Islands of Providence” is a domestic drama set in a sleepy village, focusing on the Stoker siblings,…

Civilization in the United States: An inquiry by thirty Americans

The volume is a collaborative effort by thirty American thinkers, each contributing a concise essay on a…

The Madness of May

Meredith Nicholson

The Madness of May is a New York‑set work of fiction that plunges the reader straight into a feverish…

Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Complete

Charles M. Skinner

The work is a sweeping anthology of American folklore, assembled by Charles M.

The Big Brother: A Story of Indian War

George Cary Eggleston

The work is a juvenile adventure set against the backdrop of the Creek War of 1813‑14, weaving together…

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics

Various

The Atlantic Monthly’s January 1865 issue presents a sprawling, single‑piece narrative that opens with a…

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

The volume is a scholarly compilation of nineteenth‑century parodies that target the poems of Thomas Gray,…

The Cricket

Marjorie Benton Cooke

The novel is a domestic family drama aimed at a young‑female readership, introducing its conflict through a…