American Literature

Shaman

Robert Shea

Robert Shea’s Shaman is a work of historical fiction that places a young Sauk warrior, Gray Cloud, at the…

Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems.

Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller’s Life Without and Life Within gathers together a varied assortment of reviews, essays, and…

Cape Cod

Henry David Thoreau

This work is Henry David Thoreau’s travel narrative of Cape Cod, a blend of personal memoir and regional…

Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture

Palmer Cox

Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture is a sprawling collection of Palmer Cox’s comic sketches, verses…

Young Adventure: A Book of Poems

Stephen Vincent Benét

The volume is a collection of poems by Stephen Vincent Benét, presented under the title Young Adventure.

Eben Holden: A Tale of the North Country

Irving Bacheller

The novel is a work of historical fiction that paints a vivid picture of early‑twentieth‑century life on the…

Freckles

Gene Stratton-Porter

Freckles opens as a gritty, first‑person tale of a young, one‑handed orphan drifting into the tangled woods…

The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The volume is a collection of short stories set in the White Mountains of New England, where Hawthorne blends…

Flower Fables

Louisa May Alcott

Flower Fables is a whimsical collection of short, fairy‑tale stories that centers on a garden of sentient…

Watch Yourself Go By

Al. G. Field

The work is an autobiographical sketch by Al G. Field, a former circus performer turned farmer, who frames…

The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations

Emma Lazarus

The volume gathers Emma Lazarus’s early Jewish poems and translations, presenting the work that first…

Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled During Her Visit Among the "Pennsylvania Germans"

Edith May Bertels Thomas

The work is a hybrid of memoir, travelogue, and domestic guide, framed as the recollections of Edith May…

Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

Steven David Justin Sills

The novel opens in a bustling, imagined Seoul where Sang Huin, known in the United States as Shawn, wanders…

The New-York Weekly Magazine, or Miscellaneous Repository Forming an Interesting Collection of Original and Select Literary Productions in Prose and Verse

The New‑York Weekly Magazine, or Miscellaneous Repository, is a late‑eighteenth‑century American periodical…

The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories

Willa Cather

The collection opens with a sprawling, richly detailed portrait of a solitary Norwegian homesteader named…

Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society

John H. Young

This work is a comprehensive handbook on etiquette, assembled by John H.

Richard Carvel — Complete

Winston Churchill

The work is a sprawling historical romance that blends family memoir with the sweep of the American…

Eight Cousins

Louisa May Alcott

Eight Cousins is a juvenile fiction tale that opens with the newly orphaned Rose confined to a gloomy parlor,…

Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature

The work opens on a bustling May evening in 1858, when a train conductor’s shout sends Mr.

Outlines of English and American Literature An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived

William J. Long

Outlines of English and American Literature is a comprehensive reference work that surveys the major writers,…

How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s “How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays” is a collection of observations on the craft of…

Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O

Modern Eloquence, Volume II gathers a curated selection of after‑dinner speeches that were deemed the finest…

Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins. Final Memoirs of a Staff Officer Serving in Virginia. from the Mss. of Colonel Surry, of Eagle's Nest.

John Esten Cooke

John Esten Cooke’s Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins is a Civil‑War memoir that blends…

The Jolly Corner

Henry James

The Jolly Corner is a ghost‑story framed as a reflective, first‑person narrative about Spencer Brydon, an…