American Literature

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

The volume presents a sprawling anthology of literary pastiches compiled in 1886, marketed as a “critical…

The Mascot of Sweet Briar Gulch

Henry Wallace Phillips

The work is a turn‑of‑the‑century adventure set in the mining country of New York State, where the…

Burl

Morrison Heady

The work is a nineteenth‑century Christian adventure set on the Kentucky frontier, framed by a Methodist…

The Marvelous Land of Oz

L. Frank Baum

The Marvelous Land of Oz is a juvenile fantasy adventure that begins in the northern Gillikin region with a…

The Sea-Wolf

Jack London

The Sea‑Wolf opens as a vivid, first‑person account of a fog‑shrouded morning on the San Francisco Bay.

Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge

Pemberton Ginther

The novel is a juvenile‑fiction tale centered on young women and singers, introducing its heroine, Miss Pat,…

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

The work is Benjamin Franklin’s own autobiography, a self‑written portrait of a man who rose from a modest…

Rosin the Beau

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

The book is a juvenile fiction set in a small New England village, narrated by a young boy who recalls his…

Life in the Iron-Mills; Or, The Korl Woman

Rebecca Harding Davis

Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron‑Mills; Or, The Korl Woman is a work of social‑realist fiction that…

Three generations

Maud Howe Elliott

The work is an autobiographical memoir by Maud Howe Elliott, born in 1854 to the pioneering reformer Samuel…

Washington Irving

Henry Walcott Boynton

The work is a biographical sketch of Washington Irving, the first American writer to achieve lasting fame…

The Works of Mark Twain: An Index of all Project Gutenberg Editions

Mark Twain

Daddy-Long-Legs

Jean Webster

Jean Webster’s Daddy‑Long‑Legs begins in the austere world of a New York orphanage, where the oldest girl,…

A History of American Literature Since 1870

Fred Lewis Pattee

Fred Lewis Pattee’s work is a scholarly survey of American literary development from the post‑Civil War era…

The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind

Nathan, George Jean; Mencken, H. L.

The work is a polemical essay that treats the American national character as a subject for sociological and…

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6

Various

The June 1844 issue of The Knickerbocker, or New‑York Monthly Magazine presents a vivid first‑person account…

Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays

The volume is an anthology of fifty one‑act plays assembled in 1920, presenting a sweeping survey of…

The Riflemen of the Miami

Edward Sylvester Ellis

The Riflemen of the Miami is a frontier adventure that places four hardened hunters, George and Lewis Dernor,…

The Life of David Belasco; Vol. 2

Winter, William; Winter, William Jefferson

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter presents itself as a richly layered work that weaves together themes of adultery, revenge,…

The Eyes Have It

Philip K. Dick

The piece is a short, humor‑laden science‑fiction story that opens with a narrator’s accidental discovery of…

Chanticleer A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family

Cornelius Mathews

This work is a juvenile‑fiction tale set against the backdrop of a mid‑nineteenth‑century American…

The Blithedale Romance

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The novel is an autobiographical‑tinged psychological narrative that opens with a rambling, almost theatrical…

The iron heel

Jack London

The Iron Heel is a speculative political novel that blends science‑fiction vision with a sharply observed…