American Literature

'Firebrand' Trevison

Charles Alden Seltzer

‘Firebrand’ Trevison is a Western story that begins not with a gunfight but with a flurry of letters written…

The Gay Cockade

Temple Bailey

The Gay Cockade is a collection of short stories first published in 1921, and it opens with a lively sketch…

The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot

Holman Day

The opening places the reader in a gritty, turn‑of‑the‑century mill city, where Walker Farr, a young man with…

In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim

Frances Hodgson Burnett

In this domestic vignette by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the narrative opens on a horse‑riding rider who, after…

Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads

Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads is a scholarly anthology that gathers the raw, oral poetry of the…

Anarchism and Other Essays

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman’s Anarchism and Other Essays is a polemical collection that opens with a vivid courtroom…

The Green Mouse

Robert W. Chambers

The Green Mouse is a whimsical blend of fantasy and early‑twentieth‑century New York society, framed as a…

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel is a work of political and didactic fiction that foregrounds slavery as its…

The Real Adventure

Henry Kitchell Webster

The work is a domestic romance that foregrounds the emotional turbulence of a married couple confronting a…

The Daughter of Anderson Crow

George Barr McCutcheon

The Daughter of Anderson Crow is a slice‑of‑life novel set in a small New York State town, where the everyday…

Terminal Compromise

Winn Schwartau

The novel is a didactic, tech‑savvy narrative that follows the unlikely partnership of Pierre, a music‑theory…

The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills

John Trotwood Moore

The Bishop of Cottontown is a Southern‑set novel that weaves together the lives of cotton‑mill workers,…

The Long Roll

Mary Johnston

The Long Roll is a sprawling Civil‑War narrative that opens amid a bustling Southern town on the eve of…

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes

Edgar Allan Poe

The volume presents the complete oeuvre of Edgar Allan Poe, gathered in five bound parts and indexed for easy…

Just Around the Corner: Romance en casserole

Fannie Hurst

Just Around the Corner: Romance en casserole is a collection of short stories by Fannie Hurst, first…

The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times

George Alfred Townsend

The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times is a nineteenth‑century melodrama that folds the grim business of…

Friday, the Thirteenth: A Novel

Thomas William Lawson

Thomas William Lawson’s Friday, the Thirteenth is a fast‑moving novel that plunges the reader straight into a…

Trial by water

Sewell Peaslee Wright

The story is a compact adventure set in the Canadian wilderness, where a young wife, her husband Jean…

Cruel as the grave

Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

The novel opens in a grand, yet slightly decaying mansion where a carriage pulls up to a stone‑staired…

Plays

Susan Glaspell

The work is a stage play by Susan Glaspell, first presented by the Provincetown Players in August 1916.

By Advice of Counsel

Arthur Cheney Train

By Advice of Counsel is a legal‑themed adventure that follows the bustling cases of the fictional firm Tutt &…

At the mountains of madness

H. P. Lovecraft

The story is presented as a first‑person scientific report from a Miskatonic University expedition to…

Aladdin & Co.: A Romance of Yankee Magic

Herbert Quick

Aladdin & Co. is a sprawling, early‑twentieth‑century melodrama that plunges the reader straight into the…

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This volume gathers Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most celebrated essays, presented in the scholarly format of…