American Literature

The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance

Richard Savage

The work is a sprawling historical romance set in Mexican‑ruled California in July 1840.

Tom Sawyer Abroad

Mark Twain

The work is an adventure tale that follows Tom Sawyer after the river exploits that earned him fame and a…

Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier

The volume presents a sweeping survey of American verse, tracing its evolution from the austere hymnody of…

The Spy

James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper’s The Spy is a historical‑fiction adventure set amid the “Neutral Ground” of…

North of Boston

Robert Frost

North of Boston gathers a series of Robert Frost poems that first appeared in early‑twentieth‑century…

The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851

Various

The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October 1851, is a nineteenth‑century periodical that gathers…

The Marble Faun; Or, The Romance of Monte Beni - Volume 1

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The novel opens in a marble‑filled saloon of Rome’s Capitol, where four travelers, three artists and a young…

A Book of Prefaces

H. L. Mencken

A Book of Prefaces is a scholarly essay collection in which H. L.

The Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four Million

O. Henry

The volume is a series of short stories set in the bustling streets of turn‑of‑the‑century New York, where…

"Gentlemen prefer blondes": The illuminating diary of a professional lady

Anita Loos

The work is a comic diary‑fiction narrated by a self‑styled “professional lady” who records her daily…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes’s work is a comprehensive biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson, tracing the New England…

The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850

Albert Henry Smyth

Albert Henry Smyth’s work is a scholarly survey of Philadelphia’s periodical press from its first monthly in…

Give the man room: The story of Gutzon Borglum

Casey, Robert J. (Robert Joseph); Borglum, Mary Montgomery

The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish

James Fenimore Cooper

The work is a historical fiction set during King Philip’s War of 1675‑1676, a conflict that pitted…

The American Claimant

Mark Twain

The work is a comic satire that pits the pomp of an English aristocratic lineage against the absurdity of an…

Roderick Hudson

Henry James

The novel opens with Rowland Mallet, a young American on the brink of a European voyage, spending a spare…

Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1914

A Life of Walt Whitman

Henry Bryan Binns

This work is a biographical study of Walt Whitman written by Henry Bryan Binns, an Englishman who approaches…

The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers

Henry Childs Merwin

The work is a scholarly biography that intertwines the life of Bret Harte with a broader portrait of…

The Man of the Forest

Zane Grey

The opening places the reader squarely in a rugged western landscape, introducing Milt Dale as a solitary…

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

Herman Melville

Melville’s Battle‑Pieces and Aspects of the War is a sprawling poetic chronicle of the American Civil War,…

Trees, and Other Poems

Joyce Kilmer

Joyce Kilmer’s Trees, and Other Poems is a modestly sized collection that opens with a lyrical dedication,…

Melody : The Story of a Child

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Melody is a juvenile‑fiction tale that centers on the quiet lives of two devoted sisters, Miss Vesta and Miss…

The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great Interpreters

Bliss Perry

The work is a scholarly survey of American literary history, positioning itself as a “chronicle of great…