American Literature

Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott

The volume presents a curated collection of letters, journal excerpts, and illustrations that trace the…

Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. 2 (of 2) Or Success, Ideals and How to Attain Them

The volume is a series of conversational sketches that present the lives of notable 19th‑century Americans as…

Abroad at Home: American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street

Julian Street

A Manual of American Literature

The work is a scholarly survey of American letters, assembled as a “Manual of American Literature” and…

Mardi, and a voyage thither, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Herman Melville

Mardi, and a Voyage Thither, Vol. 1 is a maritime adventure that begins with a vivid launch from the island…

From Immigrant to Inventor

Michael Pupin

The work is an autobiographical memoir by Michael Pupin, a Serbian immigrant who became a prominent American…

In our time

Ernest Hemingway

The work is a collection of short stories that plunges the reader into a series of fragmented wartime scenes,…

The Shuttle

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The novel opens with a sweeping metaphor that likens the trans‑Atlantic steamship, referred to as the…

The Prairie

James Fenimore Cooper

The Prairie is the third installment of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, first published in…

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The volume is an extensive index of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s writings, assembled as a series of brief entries…

The Story of a Bad Boy

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The work presents itself as a juvenile narrative centered on a mischievous New England boy, deliberately…

Mountain Interval

Robert Frost

Mountain Interval is a collection of poems by Robert Frost, first published in 1916 and firmly placed in the…

The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance

Edith Birkhead

The work is a scholarly survey of the Gothic romance and its off‑shoot, the tale of terror, tracing the genre…

Junior High School Literature, Book 1

Elson, William H. (William Harris); Keck, Christine M.

Junior High School Literature, Book 1 is a curated anthology designed for the first year of a junior‑high…

The Raven, and The Philosophy of Composition

Edgar Allan Poe

The volume presents Edgar Allan Poe’s celebrated poem “The Raven” together with his prose essay “The…

Rolling Stones

O. Henry

The volume titled Rolling Stone collects the final batch of O.

Opus 21 Descriptive Music for the Lower Kinsey Epoch of the Atomic Age, a Concerto for a One-man Band, Six Arias for Soap Operas, Fugues, Anthems & Barrelhouse

Philip Wylie

The work is a self‑conscious, experimental novel that folds philosophy, satire and a thinly veiled…

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index

The volume is a nineteenth‑century anthology of prose, assembled as part of a larger series that indexes the…

How it feels to be colored me

Zora Neale Hurston

The work is an autobiographical essay by Zora Neale Hurston, a leading African‑American writer and folklorist…

Piper in the Woods

Philip K. Dick

The story opens as a routine military inquiry turns surreal on a newly‑established asteroid outpost.

The Entire March Family Trilogy

William Dean Howells

The March Family Trilogy opens with a leisurely, almost conversational account of Basil and Isabel March’s…

The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 2

Edith Wharton

The volume gathers a selection of Edith Wharton’s early short stories, and it opens with a conversation among…

The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell

The volume gathers every poem James Russell Lowell ever published, reproducing the contents of the Cambridge…

Time Enough at Last

Lyn Venable

This story is a science‑fiction short piece that follows Henry Bemis, a teller whose greatest wish is simply…