Bestsellers, American, 1895-1923

The Enchanted April

Elizabeth Von Arnim

The novel opens in a London women’s club on a bleak February afternoon, where the modest Mrs Wilkins, a shy…

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a detective‑mystery story that begins in the familiar setting of 1880s…

The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance

Lucas Malet

The novel unfolds as a densely layered domestic drama set in the early nineteenth‑century English…

The Real Adventure

Henry Kitchell Webster

The work is a domestic romance that foregrounds the emotional turbulence of a married couple confronting a…

The Daughter of Anderson Crow

George Barr McCutcheon

The Daughter of Anderson Crow is a slice‑of‑life novel set in a small New York State town, where the everyday…

The Long Roll

Mary Johnston

The Long Roll is a sprawling Civil‑War narrative that opens amid a bustling Southern town on the eve of…

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

The work is a Sherlock Holmes detective story set on the bleak Dartmoor landscape, where the famed private…

The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War

Stephen Crane

The work is a historical‑fiction narrative set amid the American Civil War, focusing on a young Virginian…

Creative Evolution

Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson’s Creative Evolution is a philosophical treatise that treats evolution not as a mere biological…

Penrod

Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington’s Penrod is a comic coming‑of‑age tale set in the American Midwest, and the opening chapter…

The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan

Thomas Dixon, Jr.

The novel is a sprawling historical romance that places its characters amid the turbulent aftermath of…

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

The novel opens in a bustling back‑room of a Chicago saloon, where a Lithuanian wedding is in full swing.

The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 6

Gilbert Parker

The work is a historical romance set against the backdrop of the Anglo‑French War, its opening plunges the…

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…

Auction of To-day

Milton C. Work

The book is a practical handbook for the modern version of Auction Bridge, written by Milton C.

The Kingdom Round the Corner: A Novel

Coningsby Dawson

The Kingdom Round the Corner is a post‑war novel that follows a demobilised officer, “Tabs,” as he steps from…

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 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 Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

The novel opens amid the glittering ritual of a New York winter opera, where society’s elite arrive in…

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth is a social and psychological novel set in turn‑of‑the‑century New York, where the…

Etiquette

Emily Post

Emily Post’s Etiquette is a comprehensive treatise that opens with a sweeping meditation on the relationship…

The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind

H. G. Wells

The Outline of History is H. G. Wells’s ambitious attempt to compress the entire story of life and humanity…

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War

Finley Peter Dunne

This work is a collection of humorous sketches by the fictional Irish‑American tavern‑philosopher Mr.

Babbitt

Sinclair Lewis

The novel opens with a sweeping portrait of a bustling, modern city, its neon‑lit railways, towering…