American Literature

Drum-Taps

Walt Whitman

Drum‑Taps is Walt Whitman’s poetic response to the American Civil War, a collection that opens with a…

Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The work is a collection of seven lectures in which Emerson sets out to examine the idea that history and…

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s essay “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences” is a polemical work of literary criticism that sets…

Modern American Poetry

This volume is a sweeping anthology that gathers poems from more than a hundred American writers, ranging…

The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe

The work is a richly imagined extension of Edgar Allan Poe’s iconic poem, presented as a longer, lyrical…

The Crisis — Complete

Winston Churchill

The work is a sprawling, first‑person narrative set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, presented…

Excursions, and Poems The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 05 (of 20)

Henry David Thoreau

The volume gathers a varied assortment of Thoreau’s shorter prose and poetry, beginning with the travel essay…

The Complete Works of Josh Billings

Josh Billings

The Complete Works of Josh Billings gathers the prolific output of Henry W.

Jack and Jill

Louisa May Alcott

The story opens on a bright December afternoon in Harmony Village, where the children are racing sleds down…

The Women Who Make Our Novels

Grant M. Overton

The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 1 (of 3)

Philip Morin Freneau

This volume gathers the poems of Philip Morin Freneau, the self‑styled “Poet of the American Revolution,”…

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings

Joel Chandler Harris

The work is a literary collection that gathers the songs, sayings, and animal fables of Uncle Remus, the…

We Can't Have Everything: A Novel

Rupert Hughes

The work is a social novel set in early‑twentieth‑century New York, introducing three contrasting figures on…

Wild Animals I Have Known

Ernest Thompson Seton

The book is a collection of true‑to‑life sketches of individual animals, each presented as a miniature…

The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism

Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair’s The Brass Check is a polemical study of American journalism that begins with a sweeping,…

A Girl of the Limberlost

Gene Stratton-Porter

Gene Stratton‑Porter’s A Girl of the Limberlost is a didactic domestic tale that follows Elnora Comstock as…

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 02 In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

Ambrose Bierce

The volume gathers Ambrose Bierce’s war‑time stories, each set amid the American Civil War and suffused with…

The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Complete

John Greenleaf Whittier

The volume presents a meticulously compiled “Standard Library Edition” of John Greenleaf Whittier’s poetic…

The Squatter and the Don A Novel Descriptive of Contemporary Occurrences in California

María Amparo Ruiz de Burton

The novel presents a domestic drama set against the backdrop of California’s land‑settlement era,…

James Russell Lowell, A Biography; Vol 2/2

Horace Elisha Scudder

Horace Elisha Scudder’s second volume of James Russell Lowell, A Biography is a scholarly study that situates…

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

Philip Morin Freneau

The third volume of Philip Morin Freneau’s collected poems presents a sprawling assortment of his later work,…

Selected Poems

Robert Frost

Selected Poems gathers a handful of Robert Frost’s early verses, each opening with vivid, almost…

Rose in Bloom A Sequel to "Eight Cousins"

Louisa May Alcott

Rose in Bloom continues the lively family saga begun in Eight Cousins, opening with a bustling dock scene as…

Complete Poetical Works

Bret Harte

The volume gathers every poem Bret Harte ever published, a body that grew over three decades as his life…