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The American Literature Collection gathers the essential works of American literature, tracing the nation’s literary voice from the 19th century through the early modern age. Here you’ll find the landmark novels, short stories, essays, and poetry of writers such as Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Frederick Douglass.

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Moby Dick; Or, The WhaleHerman Melville
Bidwell’s TravelsAustin Bidwell
The King in YellowRobert W. Chambers
Little WomenLouisa May Alcott
Blow The Man DownHolman Day
MoodsLouisa May Alcott
Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin
The Prairie WifeArthur Stringer
A Farewell to ArmsErnest Hemingway
What Will People Say? A NovelRupert Hughes
Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 2Edgar Allan Poe
That Girl MontanaMarah Ellis Ryan
The Shunned HouseH. P. Lovecraft
The call of CthulhuH. P. Lovecraft
The Dunwich horrorH. P. Lovecraft
Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 1Edgar Allan Poe
Torchy and VeeSewell Ford
The Gay CockadeTemple Bailey
At the mountains of madnessH. P. Lovecraft
The Damned ThingAmbrose Bierce
The Real AdventureHenry Kitchell Webster
The Daughter of Anderson CrowGeorge Barr McCutcheon
Changeling, and Other StoriesDonn Byrne
A Pickle for the Knowing OnesTimothy Dexter
The Cask of AmontilladoEdgar Allan Poe
Terminal CompromiseWinn Schwartau
Children of the WhirlwindLeroy Scott
Blue-grass and BroadwayMaria Thompson Daviess
I am a womanAnn Bannon
Just Around the Corner: Romance en casseroleFannie Hurst
Thuvia, maid of MarsEdgar Rice Burroughs
The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon’s TimesGeorge Alfred Townsend
Trial by waterSewell Peaslee Wright
A Romance of Billy-Goat HillAlice Caldwell Hegan Rice
The LandloperHolman Day
The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald
By Advice of CounselArthur Train
Friday, the Thirteenth: A NovelThomas William Lawson
Life on the MississippiMark Twain
The Green MouseRobert W. Chambers
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, CompleteMark Twain
The Wonderful Wizard of OzL. Frank Baum
Anarchism and Other EssaysEmma Goldman
Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain
In JeopardyVan Tassel Sutphen
The Legend of Sleepy HollowWashington Irving
The Secret of the Ninth PlanetDonald Wollheim
Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Index)Edgar Allan Poe
Incidents in the Life of a Slave GirlHarriet Jacobs
Cruel as the graveE. D. E. N. Southworth
Aladdin & Co.Herbert Quick
The Belle of Bowling GreenAmelia Barr
‘Firebrand’ TrevisonCharles Alden Seltzer
The Candidate: A Political RomanceJoseph Altsheler
Officer 666Barton Wood Currie
The Awakening, and Selected Short StoriesKate Chopin
Darkwater: Voices from Within the VeilW. E. B. Du Bois
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s CourtMark Twain
The Guarded HeightsWadsworth Camp
From Kingdom to ColonyMary Devereux
Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Uncle Tom’s CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe
The MaskArthur Hornblow
The Call of the WildJack London
The Story of My LifeHelen Keller
The San Rosario RanchMaud Howe Elliott
The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane
My Bondage and My FreedomFrederick Douglass
Three millions!Oliver Optic
White FangJack London
The amazing adventures of Letitia CarberryMary Roberts Rinehart
The thing in the woodsHarper Williams
The last dragonDan Totheroh
Fairy dreamsJane Austin
The magnificent possessionIsaac Asimov
King Midas: a RomanceUpton Sinclair
The Yellow WallpaperCharlotte Perkins Gilman
The black kissRobert Bloch
The Roman hat mysteryEllery Queen
Law-star for an outlawW. C. Tuttle
The Trail of DeceptionW. C. Tuttle
I, MarsRay Bradbury
The spirit-rapper; an autobiographyOrestes Brownson
The mark of the monsterJack Williamson
Murder in the Gilded CageSamuel Spewack
The sociable ghostOlive Harper
Walden, and On the Duty of Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau
The Corbin NecklaceHenry Kitchell Webster
The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper
BambiMarjorie Benton Cooke
The gods of MarsEdgar Rice Burroughs
The Chessmen of MarsEdgar Rice Burroughs
The Land That Time ForgotEdgar Rice Burroughs
The Lost ContinentEdgar Rice Burroughs
The Best Short Stories of 1920Unknown
The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne
Leaves of GrassWalt Whitman
The Long RollMary Johnston
The BrentonsAnna Chapin Ray
A Daughter of the Middle BorderHamlin Garland
The JungleUpton Sinclair
Roughing ItMark Twain
Ethan FromeEdith Wharton
AnthemAyn Rand
Brand BlottersWilliam MacLeod Raine
The Confidence-ManHerman Melville
‘Smiles’: A Rose of the CumberlandsEliot H. Robinson
Fair HarborJoseph C. Lincoln
Standish of StandishJane Austin
Crooked Trails and StraightWilliam MacLeod Raine
Madeline Payne, the Detective’s DaughterLawrence L. Lynch
When Life Was YoungC. A. Stephens
Bartleby, the ScrivenerHerman Melville
Fenimore Cooper’s Literary OffencesMark Twain
The Branding IronKatharine Newlin Burt
Margarita’s SoulJosephine Daskam Bacon
The Watchers of the PlainsRidgwell Cullum
Mountain BloodJoseph Hergesheimer
A Voice in the WildernessGrace Livingston Hill
The Gilded AgeMark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
The Age of InnocenceEdith Wharton
Hungry HeartsAnzia Yezierska
The Fall of the House of UsherEdgar Allan Poe
An Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeAmbrose Bierce
The ReckoningRobert W. Chambers
That Affair Next DoorAnna Katharine Green
At Good Old SiwashGeorge Fitch
The Girl in the Golden AtomRay Cummings
At PlattsburgAllen French
The InnocentsSinclair Lewis
The Making of Bobby BurnitGeorge Randolph Chester
The Trail of the HawkSinclair Lewis
Flamsted QuarriesMary E. Waller
Erik DornBen Hecht
Children of the TenementsJacob A. Riis
The Coast of BohemiaWilliam Dean Howells
Shoe-Bar StrattonJoseph Bushnell Ames
The Forbidden TrailHonoré Willsie Morrow
The Lady DocCaroline Lockhart
Martin EdenJack London
Red Men and WhiteOwen Wister
The Finer GrainHenry James
The Girl and the BillBannister Merwin
Master of the VineyardMyrtle Reed
The Youth of JeffersonJohn Esten Cooke
The Blood of the ConquerorsHarvey Fergusson
The Free RangeFrancis William Sullivan
The Thing from the LakeEleanor M. Ingram
Spring StreetJames Hugh Richardson
A Romantic Young LadyRobert Grant
Country NeighborsAlice Brown
The Squirrel-CageDorothy Canfield Fisher
The Four-Pools MysteryJean Webster
East of EdenIsa Glenn
The House of MirthEdith Wharton
The Man Next DoorEmerson Hough
The Indifference of JulietGrace S. Richmond
Her Mother’s SecretE. D. E. N. Southworth
Janet of the DunesHarriet T. Comstock
Across the MesaHelen Bagg
A Small Boy and OthersHenry James
This Side of ParadiseF. Scott Fitzgerald
Rip Van WinkleWashington Irving
An American SuffragetteIsaac Newton Stevens
Mosses from an Old ManseNathaniel Hawthorne
The Escape of Mr. TrimmIrvin S. Cobb
Free AirSinclair Lewis
Peak and PrairieAnna Fuller
The Faith DoctorEdward Eggleston
The Brown MouseHerbert Quick
The PromiseJames B. Hendryx
PollyannaEleanor H. Porter
In Our TownWilliam Allen White
The Roof TreeCharles Neville Buck
The Wind Before the DawnDell H. Munger
Tarzan of the ApesEdgar Rice Burroughs
The Fighting ShepherdessCaroline Lockhart
Seven Miles to ArdenRuth Sawyer
Starlight RanchCharles King
Alonzo and MelissaIsaac Mitchell
Pharaoh’s BrokerEllsworth Douglass
Tom, the BootblackJr. Horatio Alger
Prairie FlowersJames B. Hendryx
2 B R 0 2 BKurt Vonnegut
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories Mark Twain
Essays: Second SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
The Beast in the Jungle Henry James
The Beautiful and DamnedF. Scott Fitzgerald
The American Henry James
The Ambassadors Henry James
Life in the Iron-Mills Rebecca Harding Davis
The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett
Work Louisa May Alcott
The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories Mark Twain
The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne
Washington Square Henry James
BarbariansRobert W. Chambers
A Manual of American Literature Theodore Stanton
The Damnation of Theron Ware Harold Frederic
Roderick Hudson Henry James
On the Stairs Henry Blake Fuller
Clotelle William Wells Brown
Metzerott, Shoemaker Katharine Pearson Woods
Behind a Mask Louisa May Alcott
The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett
The March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells
Our Nig Harriet E. Wilson
A History of American Literature Since 1870 Fred Lewis Pattee
An International Episode Henry James
Edgar Huntly Charles Brockden Brown
Pink and White Tyranny Harriet Beecher Stowe
Of One Blood Pauline E. Hopkins
The Whole Family William Dean Howells and others
In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Market-Place Harold Frederic
The House Behind the Cedars Charles W. Chesnutt
A Hazard of New Fortunes William Dean Howells
Iola Leroy Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
The Squatter and the Don María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Democracy Henry Adams
Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of HomeBayard Taylor
Flint Maud Wilder Goodwin
The Coquette Hannah Webster Foster
Ruth Hall Fanny Fern
Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes
We Girls A. D. T. Whitney
Clotel William Wells Brown
Hyperion Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Story of Waitstill Baxter Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Guardian Angel Oliver Wendell Holmes
A Mortal Antipathy Oliver Wendell Holmes
‘Doc.’ Gordon Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
At the Mercy of Tiberius Augusta J. Evans
Dred Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Landlord at Lion’s Head William Dean Howells
A Modern Instance William Dean Howells
Twelve Men Theodore Dreiser
Our World F. Colburn Adams
The Redemption of David Corson Charles Frederic Goss
Arthur Mervyn Charles Brockden Brown
The Lamplighter Maria Susanna Cummins
Mr. Isaacs F. Marion Crawford
Darrel of the Blessed Isles Irving Bacheller
Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist Charles Brockden Brown
The Morgesons Elizabeth Stoddard
Sonny, a Christmas Guest Ruth McEnery Stuart
The Captain’s Toll-Gate Frank R. Stockton
Jewel: A Chapter in Her Life Clara Louise Burnham
A Cathedral Singer James Lane Allen
Frances Waldeaux Rebecca Harding Davis
Ancestors Gertrude Atherton
The Pearl of Orr’s Island Harriet Beecher Stowe
Solaris Farm Milan C. Edson
Indian Summer William Dean Howells
Anne Constance Fenimore Woolson
In the Carquinez Woods Bret Harte
The Grafters Francis Lynde
The Honorable Peter Stirling Paul Leicester Ford
Minnie’s Sacrifice Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Prairie Gold Iowa Press and Authors’ Club
The Sword of Damocles Anna Katharine Green
The Price Francis Lynde
Manuel Pereira F. C. Adams
Ernest Linwood Caroline Lee Hentz
The Madonna of the Future Henry James
The Story of Kennett Bayard Taylor
The Garies and Their Friends Frank J. Webb
The Crayon Papers Washington Irving
Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Patagonia Henry James
Ragged Lady William Dean Howells
The Art of Living Robert Grant
The Deserted Wife E. D. E. N. Southworth
The Sisters-in-Law Gertrude Atherton
Hope Mills Amanda M. Douglas
Cressy Bret Harte
The Other Girls Adeline D. T. Whitney
The English Orphans Mary Jane Holmes
The Pension Beaurepas Henry James
Margret Howth Rebecca Harding Davis
The Hidden Hand E. D. E. N. Southworth
Precaution James Fenimore Cooper
Macaria Augusta J. Evans
The Golden House Charles Dudley Warner
The Bread-Winners John Hay
Septimius Felton Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Allen House T. S. Arthur
Mr. Waddy’s Return Theodore Winthrop
Confession William Gilmore Simms
The Mansion Henry van Dyke
A Beautiful Alien Julia Magruder
The Kentons William Dean Howells
The Jucklins Opie Read
Samantha Among the Colored Folks Marietta Holley
Autobiography of a Female Slave Martha Griffith Browne
Sketches and Studies Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bylow Hill George Washington Cable
The Daughter of the Storage William Dean Howells
Timothy Crump’s Ward Horatio Alger Jr.
Peculiar Epes Sargent
Peter F. Hopkinson Smith
Unleavened Bread Robert Grant
Harrington William Douglas O’Connor
The Ancestral Footstep Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Two Wives T. S. Arthur
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave Oliver Optic
John Marvel, Assistant Thomas Nelson Page
Joyce Kilmer: Essays and Letters Joyce Kilmer
The Point of View Henry James
Home as Found James Fenimore Cooper
Hookers Richard F. Mann
In the Clouds Charles Egbert Craddock
The Open Question Elizabeth Robins
Sevenoaks J. G. Holland
The Minister’s Charge William Dean Howells
Vashti Augusta J. Evans
What Answer? Anna E. Dickinson
The Reverberator Henry James
Fennel and Rue William Dean Howells
Esther Henry Adams
At Fault Kate Chopin
Hot Corn Solon Robinson
Trumps George William Curtis
Sweet Cicely Marietta Holley
A Ward of the Golden Gate Bret Harte
The World of Chance William Dean Howells
The Ivory Tower Henry James
Bressant Julian Hawthorne
Jack Ballington, Forester John Trotwood Moore
Pandora Henry James
Dr. Sevier George Washington Cable
Susy Bret Harte
The Mettle of the Pasture James Lane Allen
An American Politician F. Marion Crawford
Millbank Mary Jane Holmes
The Undercurrent Robert Grant
Mildred Mary Jane Holmes
Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer Charles Felton Pidgin
Joseph and His Friend Bayard Taylor
Their Pilgrimage Charles Dudley Warner
Senator North Gertrude Atherton
The Angel and the Demon T. S. Arthur
The Tides of Barnegat F. Hopkinson Smith
Nature’s Serial Story E. P. Roe
The Lady of the Aroostook William Dean Howells
Their Wedding Journey William Dean Howells
Infelice Augusta Jane Evans
Trial and Triumph Frances E. W. Harper
Dr. Breen’s Practice William Dean Howells
The Fair Mississippian Charles Egbert Craddock
The Quality of Mercy William Dean Howells
A Traveler from Altruria William Dean Howells
An Ambitious Woman Edgar Fawcett
The Sense of the Past Henry James
Old Crow Alice Brown
A Passionate Pilgrim Henry James
A Modern Mephistopheles Louisa May Alcott
An Open-Eyed Conspiracy William Dean Howells
A Phyllis of the Sierras Bret Harte
Justice in the By-Ways F. Colburn Adams
The Quickening Francis Lynde
The Sacred Fount Henry James
The Reign of Law James Lane Allen
The Flower of the Chapdelaines George Washington Cable
The Awakening of Helena Richie Margaret Deland
Eugene Pickering Henry James
A Pasteboard Crown Clara Morris
Ann Boyd Will N. Harben
An Interrupted Night Pansy
Memoirs of a Millionaire Lucia True Ames Mead
The Windfall Charles Egbert Craddock
Lizzy Glenn T. S. Arthur
Annie Kilburn William Dean Howells
The Princess Sonia Julia Magruder
Ten Nights in a Bar Room T. S. Arthur
A Beautiful Possibility Edith Ferguson Black
A Tale of a Lonely Parish F. Marion Crawford
Bonaventure George Washington Cable
The Abandoned Farm and Connie’s Mistake Mary Jane Holmes
Rutledge Miriam Coles Harris
Keeping Up with Lizzie Irving Bacheller
Madeline Mary Jane Holmes
The Voice Margaret Deland
A Face Illumined E. P. Roe
The Fortunes of Oliver Horn F. Hopkinson Smith
In the Garden of Delight Lily Hardy Hammond
Their Silver Wedding Journey William Dean Howells
The Juggler Charles Egbert Craddock
Wives and Widows Ann S. Stephens
The Desired Woman Will N. Harben
Jane Talbot Charles Brockden Brown
What Can She Do? E. P. Roe
Miss Ludington’s Sister Edward Bellamy
Sowing and Reaping Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
The High Heart Basil King
The Homestead on the Hillside Mary Jane Holmes
Hetty’s Strange History Helen Hunt Jackson
Papa’s Own Girl Marie Howland
Perfection City Adela E. Orpen
The Way to Peace Margaret Deland
Madame de Mauves Henry James
A Boy’s Town William Dean Howells
Queenie Hetherton Mary Jane Holmes
That Fortune Charles Dudley Warner
A Man and a Woman Stanley Waterloo
The Desert and the Sown Mary Hallock Foote
Town and Country John S. Adams
An Alabaster Box Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
The Puritans Arlo Bates
We and Our Neighbors Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cast Adrift T. S. Arthur
The Barton Experiment John Habberton
Marm Lisa Kate Douglas Wiggin
Patience Sparhawk and Her Times Gertrude Atherton
Caleb Wright John Habberton
A Foregone Conclusion William Dean Howells
David Lockwin, the People’s Idol John McGovern
The Prisoner Alice Brown
Beulah Augusta Jane Evans
Judge Elbridge Opie Read
Dr. Heidenhoff’s Process Edward Bellamy
The Dolliver Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Eddy Clarence L. Cullen
The Bride of the Mistletoe James Lane Allen
Without a Home E. P. Roe