American Literature

Can Such Things Be?

Ambrose Bierce

The work is a short‑story collection by Ambrose Bier Bierce that opens with a dense, almost sermon‑like…

The Love Affairs of an Old Maid

Lilian Bell

The work is a late‑nineteenth‑century American novel that treats the social life of single women with a blend…

The Letters of William James, Vol. 1

William James

The book is a curated collection of William James’s personal correspondence, assembled by an editor who began…

The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 2 (of 3)

Philip Morin Freneau

The volume gathers the later, expanded poems of Philip Morin Freneau, the self‑styled “Poet of the American…

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Stephen Crane

The novel is a gritty, street‑level portrait of New York’s poorest neighborhoods, presented as psychological…

The Piazza Tales

Herman Melville

The work is a short‑story collection by Herman Melville that opens with a rambling, almost lyrical sketch of…

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5

Edgar Allan Poe

This volume gathers a series of Edgar Allan Poe’s longer nonfiction pieces, and it opens with a sprawling,…

Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys

Louisa May Alcott

The novel is a lively school‑house story set in a bustling New England boarding school, opening with the…

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5

Various

The May 1844 issue of The Knickerbocker presents a single, extensive essay that gathers together everything…

Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole

James Russell Lowell

The Life of James McNeill Whistler

Pennell, Elizabeth Robins; Pennell, Joseph

The work is a meticulously compiled biography of James McNeill Whistler, written by Elizabeth Robins Pennell…

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of O. Henry

O. Henry

The Four Million

O. Henry

The Four Million is a slice‑of‑life narrative set in turn‑of‑the‑century New York, catalogued as short‑story…

Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete

Washington Irving

Washington Irving’s “Knickerbocker’s History of New York, Complete” is a satirical chronicle that began as a…

The Seven Lively Arts

Gilbert Seldes

Gilbert Seldes’s The Seven Lively Arts is a nonfiction meditation on the early American entertainment scene,…

Newton's Principia: The mathematical principles of natural philosophy

Isaac Newton

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar

The volume gathers the poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, the first African‑American poet to achieve national…

The Life of David Belasco; Vol. 1

Winter, William; Winter, William Jefferson

Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The work is a meticulously compiled biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe, assembled by her son Charles E.

The Box-Car Children

Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Box‑Car Children is a juvenile adventure that opens with a sudden, uneasy arrival in the quiet village of…

Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale

Charles Brockden Brown

The work presents itself as a moral experiment in narrative form, an epistolary confession that promises to…

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

The fourth volume of this extensive collection is devoted entirely to parodies of popular songs and ballads,…

The Letters of Henry James (Vol. II)

Henry James

The Literary World Seventh Reader

The Literary World Seventh Reader is a compendium that gathers a wide range of short works, legends, poems,…