American Literature

The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757

James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans is a historical adventure set amid the French and Indian…

Blue-grass and Broadway

Maria Thompson Daviess

The work is a turn‑of‑the‑century theatrical romance set against the glitter of Broadway, introduced through…

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World is a travelogue that blends observation, commentary, and…

Children of the Whirlwind

Leroy Scott

The novel is a gritty blend of romance and crime, set in a world of ex‑convicts and underworld schemers.

Charles Frohman: Manager and Man

Marcosson, Isaac Frederick; Frohman, Daniel

The work is a detailed biographical study of Charles Frohman, the turn‑of‑the‑century American theatrical…

The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War

Stephen Crane

The work is a historical‑fiction narrative set amid the American Civil War, focusing on a young Virginian…

Six Girls: A Home Story

Fannie Belle Irving

Six Girls: A Home Story is a juvenile fiction tale that centers on the everyday dramas of a household of…

Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is a philosophical essay that opens with a lyrical meditation on the relationship between humanity and…

A Daughter of the Middle Border

Hamlin Garland

The work is a semi‑autobiographical narrative by Hamlin Garland, an American writer whose career spanned the…

Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete

Emily Dickinson

The volume gathers the three series of Emily Dickinson’s poems into a single, uninterrupted text, presenting…

Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter

Lawrence L. Lynch

Lawrence L. Lynch’s “Madeline Payne, the Detective’s Daughter” is a detective‑mystery story that thrusts its…

A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School

Catharine Esther Beecher

This work is a practical treatise on domestic economy aimed specifically at young women, presented as a…

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today

Twain, Mark; Warner, Charles Dudley

The work is a satirical political fiction set against a backdrop of speculative iron deals and family…

The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life

Sinclair Lewis

The book is a comic‑looking slice of early‑20th‑century Midwestern life, set in the fictional towns of…

Western Characters; or, Types of Border Life in the Western States

John Ludlum McConnel

Western Characters; or, Types of Border Life in the Western States is a mid‑nineteenth‑century sketchbook…

Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska

Hudson Stuck

Hudson Stuck’s Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled is a first‑person travel narrative that chronicles a winter…

The Chautauqua Girls At Home

Pansy

The work is a domestic drama set among a circle of young women whose conversations revolve around faith,…

Penrod

Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington’s Penrod is a comic coming‑of‑age tale set in the American Midwest, and the opening chapter…

The gods of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The work is a pulpy adventure of science‑fiction romance, set on the legendary planet Barsoom.

The best short stories of 1919, and the yearbook of the American short story

The volume is a curated anthology of American short fiction published in 1919, accompanied by a comprehensive…

The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy

Helen Keller

The work is a three‑part autobiographical memoir by Helen Keller, presented in a scholarly edition compiled…

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

Herman Melville

The work is a satirical novel set on a Mississippi steamboat, where Herman Melville introduces a mute…

Aunt Jo's scrap bag, Volume 1: My boys, etc.

Louisa May Alcott

Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag, Volume 1 is a whimsical collection of short sketches that blend travelogue, animal…

The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages

P. T. Barnum

The work is a sprawling nonfiction survey in which the famed showman P. T.