American Literature

A History of American Literature

Percy Holmes Boynton

Percy H. Boynton’s A History of American Literature is a scholarly survey that maps the development of…

The Hidden Children

Robert W. Chambers

The Hidden Children is a historical romance set in colonial New York, weaving fact and fiction across the…

The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories

Mark Twain

The volume gathers a series of Mark Twain’s short, humor‑laden sketches of American life, and it opens in the…

Men without women

Ernest Hemingway

The work is a short‑story collection by Ernest Hemingway, presented here as a single, continuous narrative…

The Breath of the Gods

Sidney McCall

The Breath of the Gods is a turn‑of‑the‑century social comedy set against a lavish Washington soirée.

Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922

H. P. Lovecraft

The work is a nonfiction collection of essays by H. P. Lovecraft that examines the United Amateur Press…

The Magic of Oz

L. Frank Baum

The story opens on the saucer‑shaped summit of Mount Munch, home to the Hyups, a people who rarely leave…

The Rise of Silas Lapham

William Dean Howells

The novel is a psychological and domestic study of a self‑made New England businessman, set against the…

The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna

James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers offers a richly detailed portrait of early New York frontier life,…

Negro workaday songs

Odum, Howard Washington; Johnson, Guy Benton

Negro Workaday Songs is the third volume in Howard W. Odum and Guy B.

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

This volume is a nineteenth‑century anthology that gathers a wide range of comic imitations of well‑known…

Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers

Benj. N. Martin

This volume is a curated anthology of American literary excerpts, assembled by Benjamin Nicholas Martin as a…

Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Ragged Dick is a gritty bildungsroman set in the bustling streets of New York in 1868, chronicling the life…

The Song of the Lark

Willa Cather

The novel opens in a stark, snow‑bound Colorado town where Dr.

The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852

Various

The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, dated April 1852, is a nineteenth‑century periodical that gathers…

Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China

Andrews, Roy Chapman; Andrews, Yvette Borup

Camps and Trails in China is a detailed account of the 1916‑1917 Asiatic Zoological Expedition, undertaken by…

Arrowsmith

Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis’s Arrowsmith begins as a layered satire of medicine, tracing the lineage of its eponymous…

Familiar Letters The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 06 (of 20)

Henry David Thoreau

The volume presents a curated selection of Henry David Thoreau’s private correspondence, drawn from the…

Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887

Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 is a speculative social narrative that frames a sweeping…

Poems by William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant

This volume gathers the poetry of William Cullen Bryant, a prolific American poet of the nineteenth century.

The Deerslayer

James Fenimore Cooper

The Deerslayer is a historical‑fiction tale set amid the French and Indian War era of the 1740s, weaving…

Tales of the Jazz Age

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of short stories by F.

The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival The Belle of the Delaware

Kate Percival

The work presents itself as a first‑person memoir of Kate Percival, a self‑described “woman of pleasure” who…

Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics)

Benjamin Franklin

Franklin’s Autobiography is a first‑person chronicle that traces the life of the Philadelphia polymath from…