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Step into a landscape as vast and restless as the nation itself, where riverboys and runaways, dreamers and dissenters, pioneers and phantoms all chase freedom in their own unforgettable ways. From the wild pull of frontier woods to the hush of haunted villages, from Civil War battlefields to strange kingdoms just beyond the ordinary, this bookshelf captures the bold, questioning, fiercely imaginative spirit of American literature. These are stories that built myths, challenged consciences, and still echo like a voice carried on the wind.
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The Contrast
by Royall Tyler
Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto
by Abraham Cahan
The Imported Bridegroom, and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto
by Abraham Cahan
Of one blood: or, The hidden self
by Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth) Hopkins
The Escape; Or, A Leap For Freedom: A Drama, in Five Acts
by William Wells Brown
The Gates Ajar
by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Ishmael; Or, In the Depths
by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
by Charles Brockden Brown
Mary of Plymouth: A Story of the Pilgrim Settlement
by James Otis
Ormond; Or, The Secret Witness. Volume 1 (of 3)
by Charles Brockden Brown
The Squatter and the Don A Novel Descriptive of Contemporary Occurrences in California
by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Letters from an American Farmer
by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
A Modern Instance
by William Dean Howells
The Bishop's Shadow
by I. T. (Ida Treadwell) Thurston
Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping.
by E. N. (Eldred Nathaniel) Woodcock
Remember the Alamo
by Amelia E. Barr
The Woman-Haters
by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
When she came home from college
by Marian Hurd McNeely, Jean Bingham Wilson
Ormond; Or, The Secret Witness. Volume 2 (of 3)
by Charles Brockden Brown
The Book of Khalid
by Ameen Fares Rihani
Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
by Louisa May Alcott
The hindered hand : or, The reign of the repressionist
by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs
The Lamplighter
by Maria S. (Maria Susanna) Cummins
Equality
by Edward Bellamy
Whispering Walls
by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
Red Pepper Burns
by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond
Rachel Dyer : A North American story
by John Neal
Two Little Confederates
by Thomas Nelson Page
Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths
by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
Shifting For Himself; or, Gilbert Greyson's Fortunes
by Jr. Horatio Alger
Coming Home 1916
by Edith Wharton
Elsie and the Raymonds
by Martha Finley
Elsie's Friends at Woodburn
by Martha Finley
Old Creole Days: A Story of Creole Life
by George Washington Cable
The Salamander
by Owen Johnson
Elsie Yachting with the Raymonds
by Martha Finley
Ormond; Or, The Secret Witness. Volume 3 (of 3)
by Charles Brockden Brown
Criticism and Fiction
by William Dean Howells
Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
Christmas with Grandma Elsie
by Martha Finley
Elsie at Viamede
by Martha Finley
The Stories of the Three Burglars
by Frank R. Stockton
The Eyes of the World
by Harold Bell Wright
Shavings: A Novel
by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Mother Carey's Chickens
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
In Exile, and Other Stories
by Mary Hallock Foote
Elsie's Vacation and After Events
by Martha Finley
Home as Found Sequel to "Homeward Bound"
by James Fenimore Cooper
Philip of Texas: A Story of Sheep Raising in Texas
by James Otis
Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman
by Sarah Grimké
A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince
by Nancy Prince
Elsie's Kith and Kin
by Martha Finley
Fanny Campbell, The Female Pirate Captain: A Tale of The Revolution
by Maturin M. (Maturin Murray) Ballou
The snow-image, and other twice-told tales
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Cast Upon the Breakers
by Jr. Horatio Alger
Winona : A tale of Negro life in the South and Southwest
by Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth) Hopkins
Black April
by Julia Peterkin
The Definite Object: A Romance of New York
by Jeffery Farnol
Letters and social aims
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Web of Life
by Robert Herrick
The Red Rover: A Tale
by James Fenimore Cooper
Struggling Upward, or Luke Larkin's Luck
by Jr. Horatio Alger
Outdoor pastimes of an American hunter
by Theodore Roosevelt
Aunt Phillis's Cabin; Or, Southern Life As It Is
by Mary H. (Mary Henderson) Eastman
The Heart of the Desert (Kut-Le of the Desert)
by Honoré Morrow
Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
Dorothy's Tour
by Evelyn Raymond
Kent Knowles: Quahaug
by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
The Bravo: A Tale
by James Fenimore Cooper
The Alternative
by George Barr McCutcheon
Galusha the Magnificent
by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Tish plays the game
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Stern
by Bruce Jay Friedman
Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself. Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Robert Montgomery Bird
The Crisis — Complete
by Winston Churchill
Satanstoe; Or, the Littlepage Manuscripts. A Tale of the Colony
by James Fenimore Cooper
Homeward Bound; Or, the Chase: A Tale of the Sea
by James Fenimore Cooper
Understood Betsy
by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself. Vol. 2 (of 2)
by Robert Montgomery Bird
The Clue of the Gold Coin
by Helen Wells
Light Ahead for the Negro
by Edward A. (Edward Austin) Johnson
The Cup of Trembling, and Other Stories
by Mary Hallock Foote
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him
by Paul Leicester Ford
Weeds
by Edith Summers Kelley
The Contrast
by Royall Tyler
Capitola's Peril A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand'
by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
Elsie at Ion
by Martha Finley
The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, as Told by Herself
by Dorothy Richardson
The Three Godfathers
by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
Pandora
by Henry James
The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes)
by James Branch Cabell
Jane Talbot
by Charles Brockden Brown
A Strange Discovery
by Charles Romyn Dake
From Immigrant to Inventor
by Michael Pupin
The Big Mogul
by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton A Novel: Founded on Fact
by Hannah Webster Foster