American Literature

Tarzan of the Apes

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The novel begins as a Victorian adventure set against the backdrop of a perilous voyage to Africa.

Shawn of Skarrow

James Tandy Ellis

The novel is a regional coming‑of‑age tale set in rural Kentucky, following the teenage Shawn as he moves…

Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete

Marietta Holley

The work is a humorous, polemical pamphlet that frames a debate over women’s role in the Methodist “Meetin’…

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco

Frank Norris

The novel opens on a languid Sunday in San Francisco, introducing the hulking, pipe‑smoking dentist McTeague…

Pollyanna

Eleanor H. Porter

Pollyanna is a juvenile novel set in early‑twentieth‑century Vermont, foregrounding the lives of an orphaned…

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics

Various

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866, is a periodical anthology that gathers a variety of…

A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen

Hamlin Garland

A Little Norsk is a frontier drama that follows the harsh realities of pioneer life in the Dakota Territory,…

Sister Carrie: A Novel

Theodore Dreiser

The novel opens with Caroline Meeber, an eighteen‑year‑old from a modest Midwestern village, boarding an…

Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre.

Jack Thorne

The work is a historical fiction set against the backdrop of the Wilmington Massacre of November 1898, a…

The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams

The work is Henry Adams’s autobiographical study of his own formation, framed as a philosophical experiment…

Eve's Diary, Complete

Mark Twain

Eve’s Diary, Complete is a whimsical, pseudo‑historical diary that imagines the first woman as a curious…

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics

Various

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March 1866, is a nineteenth‑century periodical anthology that…

Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys: or, The Birch Bark Lodge

Silas K. Boone

Phil Bradley’s Mountain Boys is a juvenile adventure set in the Adirondack wilderness, where four friends,…

The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon

Washington Irving

The Sketch‑Book of Geoffrey Crayon is a self‑conscious collection of travel essays and personal reflections…

Essays — Second Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This volume is the second collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s American essays, published in the nineteenth…

A Little Maid of Ticonderoga

Alice Turner Curtis

A Little Maid of Ticonderoga is a juvenile historical novel that places a ten‑year‑old girl, Faith Carew, in…

Main Street

Sinclair Lewis

The novel is a satirical look at small‑town life, set in the imagined “Gopher Prairie, Minnesota,” but…

The Arena, Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891

Various

The Arena, Volume 4, No. 24, November 1891, is a periodical anthology of American literary commentary, and…

East of Eden

Isa Glenn

Isa Glenn’s East of Eden is a literary roman à clef set in the bustling world of 1930s New York, where the…

The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories

Mark Twain

The volume gathers a handful of Mark Twain’s shorter works, ranging from the unfinished “The Mysterious…

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics

Various

The October 1866 issue of The Atlantic Monthly is a nineteenth‑century periodical that gathers a variety of…

A Cousin's Conspiracy; Or, A Boy's Struggle for an Inheritance

Horatio Alger, Jr.

A Cousin's Conspiracy; Or, A Boy's Struggle for an Inheritance is a juvenile adventure that opens in a rural…

What Is Man? and Other Essays

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s What Is Man? and Other Essays is a collection of philosophical dialogues that probe the nature…

Second Variety

Philip K. Dick

The story opens in a bleak, ash‑strewn battlefield where a lone Russian soldier scrambles up a ruined hill…