American Literature

At the Little Brown House

Ruth Brown MacArthur

The book is a juvenile tale set in a bucolic village, introducing readers with a vivid early‑June sunrise…

Parodies of the works of English & American authors, vol. VI

The volume is a scholarly anthology of literary parodies that were originally composed in the late nineteenth…

Standish of Standish: A Story of the Pilgrims

Jane G. Austin

Jane G. Austin’s Standish of Standish is a historical novel that dramatizes the early years of the Plymouth…

Prudence Says So

Ethel Hueston

Prudence Says So is a juvenile‑fiction tale set in a Methodist parsonage, where the daily rituals of dress,…

Left Guard Gilbert

Ralph Henry Barbour

The novel is a school‑yard sports story set in a New England preparatory academy, where the opening scene…

Shorty McCabe on the Job

Sewell Ford

Shorty McCabe on the Job is a bustling urban caper set in early‑twentieth‑century New York, presented as a…

A Small Boy and Others

Henry James

The work is a memoir‑like recollection by Henry James that seeks to sketch the early life of his brother…

Hildegarde's Holiday: A Story for Girls

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

The novel is a juvenile conduct story that follows the lively Hildegarde Grahame as she navigates a hospital…

Songs of the cattle trail and cow camp

This volume is a scholarly anthology of cowboy verse compiled by a Harvard traveling fellow who spent three…

Red Men and White

Owen Wister

Red Men and White is a modestly sized anthology of eight short tales that aim to capture the texture of the…

Joan of Arc of the North Woods

Holman Day

The novel opens on a rough tote road in the north‑country timberlands, where the hulking foreman Craig,…

The Flaw in the Sapphire

Charles M. Snyder

The work is a framed narrative that begins in a bustling New‑York warehouse, where a foreman ribaldly…

The Gold Girl

James B. Hendryx

The Gold Girl is a Western adventure that plunges the reader straight into the rugged wilderness of a…

The Innocents Abroad

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad is a sprawling travel narrative that blends observation, satire, and…

Oh, You Tex!

William MacLeod Raine

The work is a Western adventure that opens with a vivid, almost cinematic tableau of the high‑desert…

True to His Home: A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin

Hezekiah Butterworth

The work is a historical‑fiction volume that imagines the early life of Benjamin Franklin, presented as the…

Tess of the Storm Country

Grace Miller White

Grace Miller White’s opening places the reader on the banks of Cayuga Lake, where three squat‑settler…

Desert Dust

Edwin L. Sabin

Desert Dust is a Western tale that begins with a self‑conscious narrator from Albany, New York, who decides…

The Coast of Bohemia

William Dean Howells

The novel is a turn‑of‑the‑century American story that intertwines the world of art with the everyday bustle…

At Plattsburg

Allen French

At its core, At Plattsburg is a first‑person account of a civilian’s reluctant enlistment in the New York…

Stories of Authors, British and American

Edwin Watts Chubb

This volume is a biographical anthology that brings together sketches of notable British and American…

Janet of the Dunes

Harriet T. Comstock

Harriet T. Comstock’s Janet of the Dunes is a turn‑of‑the‑century adventure that blends the modest romance of…

Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe

Sewell Ford

Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe is a comic slice of early‑20th‑century New York life,…

Nights With Uncle Remus

Joel Chandler Harris

Nights With Uncle Remus is a collection of animal tales told in the voice of the legendary storyteller Uncle…