American Literature

That Sweet Little Old Lady

Garrett, Randall; Janifer, Laurence M.

The story is a mid‑century science‑fiction spy tale that drops the reader straight into a tense FBI briefing.

Literature and Life (Complete)

William Dean Howells

Literature and Life (Complete) gathers the varied essays, sketches, and short stories of William Dean Howells…

Roads of Destiny

O. Henry

Roads of Destiny is a short‑story collection set in a nineteenth‑century French‑influenced world, though its…

The Wright Brothers

Fred C. Kelly

Fred C. Kelly’s “The Wright Brothers” is a biographical account that aims to satisfy the curiosity of the…

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The work is a series of conversational essays that first appeared in the New‑England Magazine in the early…

Greener Than You Think

Ward Moore

Greener Than You Think is a science‑fiction novella that launches with a rambling, first‑person monologue…

Contemporary American Literature Bibliographies and Study Outlines

Manly, John Matthews; Rickert, Edith

This volume is a scholarly guide to the American literary field from the outbreak of the First World War…

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 01 to 05

Mark Twain

The first five chapters introduce a humorous, coming‑of‑age adventure narrated by Huck Finn himself.

American nights entertainment

Grant M. Overton

Grant Overton’s American Nights Entertainment is a scholarly miscellany that gathers essays on a handful of…

American literary masters

Leon H. Vincent

Chapters from My Autobiography

Mark Twain

The work is an autobiographical fragment by Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, drawn from a…

The Ambassadors

Henry James

The work is a psychological novel that first appeared in twelve installments of The North American Review in…

American Indian Stories

Zitkala-Sa

The work is a collection of autobiographical sketches and oral‑tradition recordings by Zitkala‑Sa, a Yankton…

Jo's Boys

Louisa May Alcott

The novel continues the March family saga by turning the beloved Plumfield estate into a bustling college…

The Letters of Henry James (Vol. I)

Henry James

The Letters of Henry James (Vol. I) gathers the prolific correspondence of the American novelist whose life,…

Riders of the Purple Sage

Zane Grey

Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western tale set in 1871 Utah, where the rugged landscape of cottonwoods,…

Buffalo Bill's Boy Bugler; Or, The Last of the Indian Ring

Prentiss Ingraham

This work is a classic dime‑novel adventure built around the larger-than‑life figure of Buffalo Bill, written…

The American

Henry James

The novel opens on a sun‑splashed May day in 1868, when an athletic American visitor reclines on the circular…

The Country of the Pointed Firs

Sarah Orne Jewett

The novel is a series of tightly linked sketches set in the small coastal village of Dunnet Landing, Maine,…

The Octopus : A Story of California

Frank Norris

The Octopus is a didactic work set amid the wheat‑fields and dusty roads of California’s San Joaquin Valley…

Elson Grammar School Literature, book 4

Elson, William H. (William Harris); Keck, Christine M.

Elson Grammar School Literature, Book 4 is a teacher‑oriented anthology that assembles a wide range of poems,…

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 1.

Mark Twain

The opening places the reader squarely in the mischievous world of a boy who constantly tests the limits of…

Mrs. Spring Fragrance

Sui Sin Far

Mrs. Spring Fragrance is a collection of short stories that centers on Chinese‑American life in the Pacific…

Flappers and Philosophers

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Flappers and Philosophers is a short‑story collection by F.