American Literature

A Little Country Girl

Susan Coolidge

The novel opens on a bright early‑June day in Narragansett country, when the steamer Eolus departs Wickford…

The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want

Gerald Stanley Lee

Gerald Stanley Lee’s The Ghost in the White House is a polemical treatise that frames the American electorate…

The Brentons

Anna Chapin Ray

The Brentons is a domestic drama that opens on a winter morning in a modest household, where…

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."

George Horace Lorimer

The work is an epistolary didactic novel that strings together a series of letters from John Graham, the…

The Border Watch: A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand

Joseph A. Altsheler

The Border Watch closes Joseph A. Altsheler’s eight‑volume saga of Henry Ware, Paul Cotter and their…

Little Bobtail; or, The Wreck of the Penobscot.

Oliver Optic

Little Bobtail is the inaugural entry in Oliver Optic’s Yacht Club Series, a collection of self‑contained…

Rufus and Rose; Or, The Fortunes of Rough and Ready

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Rufus and Rose is a work of 19th‑century American fiction that blends social commentary with a modest…

When Grandmamma Was New: The Story of a Virginia Childhood

Marion Harland

When Grandmamma Was New is a juvenile fiction work that blends Christian moral instruction with vivid…

The Promised Land

Mary Antin

The Promised Land is a memoir by Mary Antin, a Jewish immigrant born in Polotzk (now Polatsk, Belarus) in the…

The Short-story

The volume is a classroom‑crafted anthology that gathers a selection of short stories long used in American…

George at the Fort; Or, Life Among the Soldiers

Harry Castlemon

The novel opens in the cramped headquarters of Fort Lamoine, where Colonel Brown, a hard‑nosed commander, is…

Polly's Business Venture

Lillian Elizabeth Roy

Polly’s Business Venture is a juvenile adventure set in the bustling world of early‑twentieth‑century New…

The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights

Irvin S. Cobb

The work is a crime‑fiction short story that follows the fall of Hobart W.

At Good Old Siwash

George Fitch

George Fitch’s “At Good Old Siwash” is a comic romp through the imagined world of a college that never quite…

The Keepers of the Trail: A Story of the Great Woods

Joseph A. Altsheler

The Keepers of the Trail is a wilderness adventure that opens with a vivid, almost lyrical portrait of the…

Fair Harbor

Joseph Crosby Lincoln

The novel opens in a bustling Cape Cod kitchen where the Macomber family, six children ranging from a toddler…

The Girl from Sunset Ranch; Or, Alone in a Great City

Amy Bell Marlowe

The novel follows Helen Morrell, a sixteen‑year‑old “cowgirl” of sturdy build, as she confronts the loss of…

Judith of the Cumberlands

Alice MacGowan

Judith of the Cumberlands is a regional novel set in the Appalachian foothills, narrated by an author who has…

Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World

Owen Johnson

The work is a sprawling school‑boy novel that follows the mischievous Skippy Bedelle from his early, almost…

Across the Mesa

Helen Bagg

The novel opens with Polly Street’s restless inner monologue as she wrestles with the inconvenience of an…

Mountain Blood: A Novel

Joseph Hergesheimer

Mountain Blood is a work of regional fiction set in the rugged hills of Virginia, where the daily rhythms of…

The Man Next Door

Emerson Hough

The novel opens with a rambling, first‑person narration that introduces Bonnie Bell Wright, a girl whose name…

A Wounded Name

Charles King

The work is a late‑nineteenth‑century adventure set in the early Arizona frontier, where the United States…

Brand Blotters

William MacLeod Raine

Brand Blotters is a rugged Western tale that thrusts the reader into the harsh desert at the moment a lone…