American Literature

The Young Ranchers; Or, Fighting the Sioux

Edward Sylvester Ellis

The Young Ranchers; Or, Fighting the Sioux is a juvenile adventure set in the open plains of South Dakota…

White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War

Herman Melville

Melville’s White Jacket is a first‑person naval memoir that doubles as a satirical sea novel.

My Ántonia

Willa Cather

The novel is a work of frontier and pioneer fiction set in Nebraska, told through the recollections of Jim…

American Historical and Literary Curiosities, Series One

Smith, J. Jay (John Jay); Watson, John F.

The Aspern Papers

Henry James

The novel is a work of psychological fiction set in Venice, where a narrator, guided by the resourceful Mrs.

Sherwood Anderson: A Bibliography

Sheehy, Eugene P. (Eugene Paul); Lohf, Kenneth A.

This volume is a scholarly bibliography that gathers every work by Sherwood Anderson and every critical…

Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Herman Melville

Pierre; or The Ambiguities is an autobiographical‑style work that folds the narrator’s own reflections into a…

The Conjure Woman

Charles W. Chesnutt

The work is a Southern‑state narrative that blends domestic travel with a folk‑tale about a haunted vineyard.

The Maine Woods The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 03 (of 20)

Henry David Thoreau

The Maine Woods is a posthumously assembled travel narrative by Henry David Thoreau, drawn from his journal…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

This volume is a scholarly biography of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and…

100 New Yorkers of the 1970s

Max Millard

The book is a nonfiction collection of interviews that Max Millard conducted while working for the…

Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative

Harry Kemp

The work is an autobiographical narrative that opens with a stark confession: the author, Harry Kemp, is…

An Old-Fashioned Girl

Louisa May Alcott

The novel is a juvenile story set in 19th‑century New England, weaving together city‑and‑town life with the…

A Dog's Tale

Mark Twain

The work is a whimsical animal‑narrated fiction that opens with a self‑deprecating canine narrator declaring…

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches

Eliza Leslie

Eliza Leslie’s Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches is a practical manual aimed at the American…

Love of Life, and Other Stories

Jack London

Love of Life, and Other Stories is a Jack London collection that plunges the reader straight into the bleak,…

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Selected Stories of Bret Harte

Bret Harte

Selected Stories of Bret Harte gathers the author’s most celebrated Western short fiction, a genre he helped…

Makers

Cory Doctorow

Makers is a near‑future satirical novel that blends business‑journalism, tech‑culture critique, and…

Random Reminiscences of Men and Events

John D. Rockefeller

Random Reminiscences of Men and Events is an informal memoir by John D.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Henry David Thoreau

The work is a nineteenth‑century travel narrative that begins with an expansive, almost encyclopedic sketch…

Redburn. His First Voyage Being the Sailor Boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-Of-A-Gentleman in the Merchant Navy

Herman Melville

The work is an autobiographical‑fictional sea story that follows a young American boy’s growing obsession…

The So-called Human Race

Bert Leston Taylor

The So‑Called Human Race is a collection of witty snippets, quips and short observations that originally…

The best short stories of 1915, and the yearbook of the American short story

This volume is a curated year‑book of American short fiction, gathering together the most distinguished…