American Literature

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

Margaret Sidney

The novel introduces the Pepper family as a tight‑knit group of poor children living in a modest brown house,…

The shadow over Innsmouth

H. P. Lovecraft

The Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror tale set in a decaying Massachusetts seaport, blending fantasy and…

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Mark Twain

The story opens with a sweeping description of Hadleyburg, a small American town that has built its identity…

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The novel opens on a sweltering May day as the stagecoach rattles along the dusty road between Maplewood and…

Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum

P. T. Barnum

Struggles and Triumphs is the expansive autobiography of Phineas Taylor Barnum, the man who built the…

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories

Mark Twain

The collection opens with a vivid portrait of Hadleyburg, a town that has built its identity on an…

Essays of an Americanist I. Ethnologic and Archæologic. II. Mythology and Folk Lore. III. Graphic Systems and Literature. IV. Linguistic.

Daniel G. Brinton

Daniel G. Brinton’s Essays of an Americanist is a scholarly compilation that tackles the origins, cultures,…

The Heart Line: A Drama of San Francisco

Gelett Burgess

The Heart Line is a sprawling, episodic drama set in San Francisco’s seedier districts in 1877, where the…

Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900)

Mark Twain

This volume gathers a selection of Mark Twain’s private correspondence from the later years of his life,…

The £1,000,000 bank-note, and other new stories

Mark Twain

The volume is a collection of Mark Twain’s short‑fiction, gathered under the title The £1,000,000 Bank‑Note,…

The Wonderful "One-Hoss-Shay", and Other Poems

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910

Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe; Elliott, Maud Howe; Hall, Florence Howe

The work is a biographical sketch of Julia Ward Howe, assembled by her daughters Laura Elizabeth Howe…

Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 2 of 2] With his Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical, Selected with Care from All His Published Productions, and Comprising Whatever Is Most Entertaining and Valuable to the General Reader

Benjamin Franklin

Billy Budd: And Other Prose Pieces

Herman Melville

The volume gathers Herman Melville’s final prose efforts, beginning with the unfinished novel Billy Budd,…

English Translations from the Greek: A Bibliographical Survey

Finley Melville Kendall Foster

This work is a scholarly bibliography that charts every English rendering of Greek literature from the…

The Circular Staircase

Mary Roberts Rinehart

The novel is a mystery set in a country house, narrated by a middle‑aged, unmarried woman who has taken on…

Summer

Edith Wharton

The novel opens on a bright June afternoon in the isolated hill‑top village of North Dormer, where the sky…

A Son of the Sun

Jack London

A Son of the Sun is a sea‑faring adventure that plunges the reader straight into the sweltering heat of a…

Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs

Robert Green Ingersoll

The volume presents a curated selection of the opinions and beliefs of Colonel Robert G.

When the movies were young

Linda Arvidson

The Blue Goose

Frank Lewis Nason

The Blue Goose is a gritty, turn‑of‑the‑century mining drama that blends romance with the hard‑pressed world…

Eureka: A Prose Poem

Edgar Allan Poe

Eureka: A Prose Poem is an ambitious, single‑voice meditation that treats cosmology as a literary pursuit…

From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: and a Trip Round It

Jules Verne

A Traveler at Forty

Theodore Dreiser

The work is a semi‑autobiographical travel memoir by Theodore Dreiser, written as he prepares for his first…