Bestsellers, American, 1895-1923

Pollyanna

Eleanor H. Porter

Pollyanna is a juvenile novel set in early‑twentieth‑century Vermont, foregrounding the lives of an orphaned…

The Years Between

Rudyard Kipling

The work is a long‑form poem that reads like a series of rallying cries, memorials and philosophical asides…

The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams

The work is Henry Adams’s autobiographical study of his own formation, framed as a philosophical experiment…

Main Street

Sinclair Lewis

The novel is a satirical look at small‑town life, set in the imagined “Gopher Prairie, Minnesota,” but…

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett’s How to Live on 24 Hours a Day is a self‑help treatise that treats time as the most valuable…

Mark Twain: A Biography. Complete

Albert Bigelow Paine

Albert Bigelow Paine’s work is a biographical study that situates Mark Twain within the broader currents of…

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace is a first‑hand analysis of the Versailles…

The Story of Mankind

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

The work is a sweeping survey of world history presented as a single narrative, beginning with a vivid,…

Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Quo Vadis is a historical‑fiction novel that places the clash of early Christianity…

Mystic Isles of the South Seas.

Frederick O'Brien

Frederick O’Brien’s “Mystic Isles of the South Seas” is a travelogue that blends personal observation with…

The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains

Owen Wister

The Virginian is a Western set in the waning frontier of Wyoming between 1874 and 1890, a period Owen Wister…

The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told

J. Arthur Thomson

The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 is a broad‑ranging survey that sets out to give the “intelligent…

Now It Can Be Told

Philip Gibbs

The work is a first‑hand chronicle of the First World War written by Philip Gibbs, a veteran British…

The Black Bag

Louis Joseph Vance

The Black Bag opens with a brisk, almost theatrical tableau of strangers and cryptic greetings, then settles…

The prisoner of Zenda

Anthony Hope

The novel is a swash‑buckling adventure that also functions as a love story and a tale of political intrigue.

Trilby

George Du Maurier

The Crisis — Complete

Winston Churchill

The work is a sprawling, first‑person narrative set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, presented…

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The novel opens on a sweltering May day as the stagecoach rattles along the dusty road between Maplewood and…

The new freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People

Woodrow Wilson

The work is a political manifesto assembled from the speeches President Woodrow Wilson delivered during his…

Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900)

Mark Twain

This volume gathers a selection of Mark Twain’s private correspondence from the later years of his life,…

In Flanders Fields, and Other Poems

John McCrae

White Shadows in the South Seas

Frederick O'Brien

The Harvester

Gene Stratton-Porter

The Shuttle

Frances Hodgson Burnett