American Literature

Poems on various subjects, religious and moral

Phillis Wheatley

This volume gathers the poems of Phillis Wheatley, an African‑born poet who arrived in Boston as a child in…

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844

Various

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56 (September 1844), is a Victorian‑era periodical anthology that…

American Adventures: A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'

Julian Street

American Adventures: A Second Trip “Abroad at Home” is Julian Street’s expansive travelogue of the Southern…

The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet

Kenneth Ward

The novel is a wartime adventure aimed at younger readers, set against the backdrop of World War I naval…

The Best American Humorous Short Stories

The volume presents a curated selection of American short stories whose chief aim is to combine literary…

Mark Twain: A Biography. Complete

Albert Bigelow Paine

Albert Bigelow Paine’s work is a biographical study that situates Mark Twain within the broader currents of…

Poems of American History

This volume is a comprehensive anthology that gathers together poems written about the United States’ past,…

Letters of a Dakota Divorcee

Jane Burr

The work is a fragmentary, epistolary novel that presents itself as the scattered correspondence of a woman…

Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life

Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio is a collection of linked short stories that together form a loose novel…

The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe

The work is a single poem by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the American Review of 1845 and later issued…

Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas

Various

Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas is a collection of juvenile tales set in the American South, drawn…

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the month of June, 1827.

Edgar Allan Poe

The work is a first‑person sea narrative that blends travelogue, personal confession, and the promise of a…

The Open Boat and Other Stories

Stephen Crane

The volume gathers Stephen Crane’s short‑fiction, a blend of gritty realism and stark naturalism that…

The Song of Hiawatha

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Song of Hiawatha is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetic rendering of North‑American Indian legends,…

Remarks

Bill Nye

Bill Nye’s “Remarks” is a self‑styled compendium of wit, anecdote, and assorted observations, presented as…

The Carpenter's Daughter

Warner, Susan; Warner, Anna Bartlett

The story opens on a quiet summer afternoon as a mother and her little daughter, Nettie, draw water from a…

Man Overboard!

F. Marion Crawford

The opening of Man Overboard! sets the tone for a gritty seafaring yarn that blends the ordinary hazards of…

Twice-told tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Twice‑told Tales gathers a series of short stories that plunge the reader into the turbulent world of…

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 1, January 1810

The Mirror of Taste and Dramatic Censor opens as a manifesto for a new kind of periodical, arguing that…

The Straw

Eugene O'Neill

The Straw is a three‑act American drama set in a modest Connecticut town in the early 1910s.

Mark Twain's Speeches

Mark Twain

Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms

Gertrude Stein

Tender Buttons Objects, Food, Rooms is Gertrude Stein’s collection of prose poems, a work that begins not…

Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 2 of 2

John Wilson Townsend

Barbarians

Robert W. Chambers

Barbarians is a World War I novel that opens amid the cramped decks of a mule transport bound for the Western…