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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- ‘Smiles’: A Rose of the CumberlandsEliot H. Robinson
- 2 B R 0 2 BKurt Vonnegut
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s CourtMark Twain
- A Daughter of the Middle BorderHamlin Garland
- A Farewell to ArmsErnest Hemingway
- A Pickle for the Knowing OnesTimothy Dexter
- A Romance of Billy-Goat HillAlice Caldwell Hegan Rice
- A Romantic Young LadyRobert Grant
- A Small Boy and OthersHenry James
- A Voice in the WildernessGrace Livingston Hill
- Across the MesaHelen Bagg
- Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain
- Aladdin & Co.Herbert Quick
- Alonzo and MelissaIsaac Mitchell
- An American SuffragetteIsaac Newton Stevens
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeAmbrose Bierce
- Anarchism and Other EssaysEmma Goldman
- AnthemAyn Rand
- At Good Old SiwashGeorge Fitch
- At PlattsburgAllen French
- At the mountains of madnessH. P. Lovecraft
- Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin
- BambiMarjorie Benton Cooke
- BarbariansRobert W. Chambers
- Bartleby, the ScrivenerHerman Melville
- Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of HomeBayard Taylor
- Bidwell’s TravelsAustin Bidwell
- Blow The Man DownHolman Day
- Blue-grass and BroadwayMaria Thompson Daviess
- Brand BlottersWilliam MacLeod Raine
- By Advice of CounselArthur Train
- Changeling, and Other StoriesDonn Byrne
- Children of the TenementsJacob A. Riis
- Children of the WhirlwindLeroy Scott
- Country NeighborsAlice Brown
- Crooked Trails and StraightWilliam MacLeod Raine
- Cruel as the graveE. D. E. N. Southworth
- Darkwater: Voices from Within the VeilW. E. B. Du Bois
- East of EdenIsa Glenn
- Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Erik DornBen Hecht
- Essays: Second SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
- Ethan FromeEdith Wharton
- Fair HarborJoseph C. Lincoln
- Fairy dreamsJane Austin
- Fenimore Cooper’s Literary OffencesMark Twain
- Flamsted QuarriesMary E. Waller
- Free AirSinclair Lewis
- Friday, the Thirteenth: A NovelThomas William Lawson
- From Kingdom to ColonyMary Devereux
- Her Mother’s SecretE. D. E. N. Southworth
- Hungry HeartsAnzia Yezierska
- I am a womanAnn Bannon
- I, MarsRay Bradbury
- In JeopardyVan Tassel Sutphen
- In Our TownWilliam Allen White
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave GirlHarriet Jacobs
- Janet of the DunesHarriet T. Comstock
- Just Around the Corner: Romance en casseroleFannie Hurst
- King Midas: a RomanceUpton Sinclair
- Law-star for an outlawW. C. Tuttle
- Leaves of GrassWalt Whitman
- Life on the MississippiMark Twain
- Little WomenLouisa May Alcott
- Madeline Payne, the Detective’s DaughterLawrence L. Lynch
- Margarita’s SoulJosephine Daskam Bacon
- Martin EdenJack London
- Master of the VineyardMyrtle Reed
- Moby Dick; Or, The WhaleHerman Melville
- MoodsLouisa May Alcott
- Mosses from an Old ManseNathaniel Hawthorne
- Mountain BloodJoseph Hergesheimer
- Murder in the Gilded CageSamuel Spewack
- My Bondage and My FreedomFrederick Douglass
- Officer 666Barton Wood Currie
- Peak and PrairieAnna Fuller
- Pharaoh’s BrokerEllsworth Douglass
- PollyannaEleanor H. Porter
- Prairie FlowersJames B. Hendryx
- Red Men and WhiteOwen Wister
- Rip Van WinkleWashington Irving
- Roughing ItMark Twain
- Seven Miles to ArdenRuth Sawyer
- Shoe-Bar StrattonJoseph Bushnell Ames
- Spring StreetJames Hugh Richardson
- Standish of StandishJane Austin
- Starlight RanchCharles King
- Tarzan of the ApesEdgar Rice Burroughs
- Terminal CompromiseWinn Schwartau
- That Affair Next DoorAnna Katharine Green
- That Girl MontanaMarah Ellis Ryan
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, CompleteMark Twain
- The Age of InnocenceEdith Wharton
- The amazing adventures of Letitia CarberryMary Roberts Rinehart
- The Awakening, and Selected Short StoriesKate Chopin
- The Beautiful and DamnedF. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Belle of Bowling GreenAmelia Barr
- The Best Short Stories of 1920Unknown
- The black kissRobert Bloch
- The Blood of the ConquerorsHarvey Fergusson
- The Branding IronKatharine Newlin Burt
- The BrentonsAnna Chapin Ray
- The Brown MouseHerbert Quick
- The call of CthulhuH. P. Lovecraft
- The Call of the WildJack London
- The Candidate: A Political RomanceJoseph Altsheler
- The Cask of AmontilladoEdgar Allan Poe
- The Chessmen of MarsEdgar Rice Burroughs
- The Coast of BohemiaWilliam Dean Howells
- The Confidence-ManHerman Melville
- The Corbin NecklaceHenry Kitchell Webster
- The Damned ThingAmbrose Bierce
- The Daughter of Anderson CrowGeorge Barr McCutcheon
- The Dunwich horrorH. P. Lovecraft
- The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon’s TimesGeorge Alfred Townsend
- The Escape of Mr. TrimmIrvin S. Cobb
- The Faith DoctorEdward Eggleston
- The Fall of the House of UsherEdgar Allan Poe
- The Fighting ShepherdessCaroline Lockhart
- The Finer GrainHenry James
- The Forbidden TrailHonoré Willsie Morrow
- The Four-Pools MysteryJean Webster
- The Free RangeFrancis William Sullivan
- The Gay CockadeTemple Bailey
- The Gilded AgeMark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
- The Girl and the BillBannister Merwin
- The Girl in the Golden AtomRay Cummings
- The gods of MarsEdgar Rice Burroughs
- The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Green MouseRobert W. Chambers
- The Guarded HeightsWadsworth Camp
- The House of MirthEdith Wharton
- The Indifference of JulietGrace S. Richmond
- The InnocentsSinclair Lewis
- The JungleUpton Sinclair
- The King in YellowRobert W. Chambers
- The Lady DocCaroline Lockhart
- The Land That Time ForgotEdgar Rice Burroughs
- The LandloperHolman Day
- The last dragonDan Totheroh
- The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper
- The Legend of Sleepy HollowWashington Irving
- The Long RollMary Johnston
- The Lost ContinentEdgar Rice Burroughs
- The magnificent possessionIsaac Asimov
- The Making of Bobby BurnitGeorge Randolph Chester
- The Man Next DoorEmerson Hough
- The mark of the monsterJack Williamson
- The MaskArthur Hornblow
- The Prairie WifeArthur Stringer
- The PromiseJames B. Hendryx
- The Real AdventureHenry Kitchell Webster
- The ReckoningRobert W. Chambers
- The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane
- The Roman hat mysteryEllery Queen
- The Roof TreeCharles Neville Buck
- The San Rosario RanchMaud Howe Elliott
- The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne
- The Secret of the Ninth PlanetDonald Wollheim
- The Shunned HouseH. P. Lovecraft
- The sociable ghostOlive Harper
- The spirit-rapper; an autobiographyOrestes Brownson
- The Squirrel-CageDorothy Canfield Fisher
- The Story of My LifeHelen Keller
- The Thing from the LakeEleanor M. Ingram
- The thing in the woodsHarper Williams
- The Trail of DeceptionW. C. Tuttle
- The Trail of the HawkSinclair Lewis
- The Watchers of the PlainsRidgwell Cullum
- The Wind Before the DawnDell H. Munger
- The Wonderful Wizard of OzL. Frank Baum
- The Yellow WallpaperCharlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Youth of JeffersonJohn Esten Cooke
- This Side of ParadiseF. Scott Fitzgerald
- Three millions!Oliver Optic
- Thuvia, maid of MarsEdgar Rice Burroughs
- Tom, the BootblackJr. Horatio Alger
- Torchy and VeeSewell Ford
- Trial by waterSewell Peaslee Wright
- Uncle Tom’s CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe
- Walden, and On the Duty of Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau
- What Will People Say? A NovelRupert Hughes
- When Life Was YoungC. A. Stephens
- White FangJack London
- Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Index)Edgar Allan Poe
- Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 1Edgar Allan Poe
- Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 2Edgar Allan Poe
- ‘Firebrand’ TrevisonCharles Alden Seltzer