American Literature

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

L. Frank Baum

The book is a whimsical continuation of L. Frank Baum’s Oz series, written expressly for young readers who…

Reels and Spindles: A Story of Mill Life

Evelyn Raymond

Reels and Spindles is a turn‑of‑the‑century novel that blends domestic fiction with the bustling world of…

From Place to Place

Irvin S. Cobb

The work is a short‑story collection by Irvin S. Cobb, and it opens with a meticulous portrait of Tobias…

The Devil's Dictionary

Ambrose Bierce

The Devil’s Dictionary is a satirical lexicon that lampoons the very act of definition.

The Hairy Ape

Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape opens in the cramped forecastle of a transatlantic liner, where a throng of…

The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance

More, Paul Elmer; Harris, Corra

The work is a three‑part epistolary romance that stages a dialogue between a young Southern writer, Jessica…

Fairy Prince and Other Stories

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

The story opens with a bustling Thanksgiving scene in a household that is already dreaming of Christmas.

The Road to Oz

L. Frank Baum

The Road to Oz is a whimsical continuation of L. Frank Baum’s beloved Oz series, written expressly for the…

Seek and Find; or, The Adventures of a Smart Boy

Oliver Optic

Seek and Find; or, The Adventures of a Smart Boy is a nineteenth‑century juvenile novel that blends moral…

A Tar-Heel Baron

Mabell S. C. Smith

The novel is a regional tale set in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina, introducing the enigmatic…

The Girl and the Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure

Bannister Merwin

The novel opens on a bustling State Street in Chicago, where the practical‑minded lawyer Robert Orme watches…

Anderson Crow, Detective

George Barr McCutcheon

Anderson Crow, Detective thrusts the reader straight into a chaotic night in the small Midwestern town of…

The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man

George Randolph Chester

The work is a light‑hearted, first‑person narrative that follows the newly‑inherited heir Bobby Burnit as he…

When Life Was Young: At the Old Farm in Maine

C. A. Stephens

The work is a nostalgic juvenile narrative set on a Maine farm, tracing the lineage of a Revolutionary‑war…

In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk

Hezekiah Butterworth

This work is a nineteenth‑century historical novel that frames a largely factual portrait of Abraham…

Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day

Americans All is a curated anthology that sets out to map the breadth of American life through the short…

A Man of Two Countries

Alice Harriman

A Man of Two Countries is a political‑fiction set against the rugged backdrop of Montana and the Canadian…

The Peterkin Papers

Lucretia P. Hale

The Peterkin Papers is a collection of light‑hearted family sketches that began as a simple postal‑card idea.

The Lure of the Mask

Harold MacGrath

The Lure of the Mask is a turn‑of‑the‑century urban fantasy that plunges the reader straight into a…

Aunt Jo's scrap-bag, Volume 6: An old-fashioned Thanksgiving, etc.

Louisa May Alcott

Aunt Jo’s Scrap‑Bag, Volume 6 is a sprawling, episodic children’s story that opens in the thick of a New…

Crooked Trails and Straight

William MacLeod Raine

Crooked Trails and Straight is a fast‑moving Western that thrusts the reader straight into the dust‑choked…

Prairie Flowers

James B. Hendryx

Prairie Flowers is a Western tale that opens with a lively domestic scene, where a husband and wife banter…

Free Air

Sinclair Lewis

The novel opens with Claire Boltwood behind the wheel of a Gomez‑Deperdussin roadster, battling a relentless…

Margarita's Soul: The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty

Josephine Daskam Bacon