American Literature

The Land of Little Rain

Mary Austin

The work is a sprawling travel‑nature essay that treats California’s varied landscapes as a single, almost…

The Scarlet Plague

Jack London

Jack London’s opening thrusts the reader into a stark, post‑apocalyptic landscape where a crumbling mono‑rail…

Football days: Memories of the Game and of the Men Behind the Ball

William H. Edwards

The work is a memoir‑style tribute to the early days of American football, written by former player and…

American Historical and Literary Curiosities: Second Series, Complete

J. Jay Smith

The Harvester

Gene Stratton-Porter

The Harvester is a didactic, rural‑focused story that opens with a solitary figure perched on a log‑studded…

Typee: A Romance of the South Seas

Herman Melville

The work is an adventure narrative set in the South Pacific, drawn from the author’s own experience as a…

Miscellanies

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This volume brings together a varied collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s public speeches, addresses, and…

Journal 02, 1850-September 15, 1851 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 08 (of 20)

Henry David Thoreau

This volume gathers the entries Henry David Thoreau kept between September 1850 and September 1851, the…

The Valley of the Moon

Jack London

The Valley of the Moon is a gritty domestic drama that opens in a sweltering laundry‑room where a troupe of…

James Fenimore Cooper

Mary Elizabeth Phillips

The work is a meticulously compiled biography of James Fenimore Cooper that presents his life as a “simply…

Washington Square

Henry James

The novel is a domestic tale set in early‑nineteenth‑century New York, centering on the respectable physician…

Reminiscences, 1819-1899

Julia Ward Howe

Julia Ward Howe’s Reminiscences, 1819‑1899 is an autobiographical memoir that begins with a candid confession…

The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President

The volume is a curated anthology of poems and illustrations that honor Abraham Lincoln, assembled by Osborn…

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The volume is a collection of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.’s “Autocrat of the Breakfast‑Table” essays,…

The Jacket (The Star-Rover)

Jack London

The work is a sprawling psychological confession that blends the narrator’s present incarceration with a…

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

This volume is an extensive index of Henry David Thoreau’s published works, arranged chronologically and…

Whirligigs

O. Henry

Whirligigs is a turn‑of‑the‑century American short‑story collection that opens with a self‑conscious narrator…

Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship

William Dean Howells

Literary Friends and Acquaintance is a memoir‑essay collection in which William Dean Howells reflects on the…

The Mucker

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Mucker reads as a gritty, street‑level adventure set in early‑20th‑century Chicago.

The Melting-Pot

Israel Zangwill

The Melting‑Pot is a stage play that opens in the cramped, eclectic living‑room of the Quixano household on a…

History of American Literature

Reuben Post Halleck

The work is a scholarly survey of American literary development, organized into seven chapters that trace the…

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851

Various

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June 1851, is a nineteenth‑century periodical that gathers a…

Tales of a Traveller

Washington Irving

The work is a rambling, episodic travel narrative that weaves together a series of loosely related anecdotes…

Shapes of Clay

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bier Bierce’s Shapes of Clay is a sprawling collection of American poetry that gathers verses…