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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.

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Edward Bellamy

by Howard Roger Garis

by Homer Greene

by George Lippard

by Gulielma Zollinger

by Zona Gale

by Charles King

by Maria Thompson Daviess
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

by Gelett Burgess

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Theodore Dreiser

by Mark Twain

by Winston Churchill

by Stephen Crane

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Mark Twain

by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy, Alden Charles Noble

by James Lane Allen

by Helen Leah Reed

by Harry Castlemon

by Edward Bellamy

by Robert Moore Williams

by Oliver Optic

by Henry Beston

by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

by William Dean Howells

by Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin

by Albert Payson Terhune

by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith, John F. (John Fanning) Watson

by Mabel Osgood Wright

by Lucy Ellen Guernsey

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Ben Ames Williams

by Forbes Parkhill

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Mark Twain

by Grace Livingston Hill

by Charles M. Snyder

by Clara Louise Burnham

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Mark Twain

by Eugene O'Neill

by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

by Mark Twain

by Henry James

by Edith May Bertels Thomas

by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

by Edna Ferber

by Stewart Edward White

by Mark Twain

by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

by Mabel Osgood Wright

by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

by Edna Ferber

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Don Marquis

by Jack London

by Maurice Thompson

by Eugene Field

by Harry Leon Wilson

by Eliot Gregory

by Miriam Michelson

by Charles Dudley Warner

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by James Whitcomb Riley

by James Lane Allen

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by James Whitcomb Riley

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Myrtle Reed

by George Washington Cable

by Edith Wharton

by Jr. Thomas Dixon

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by Lily Munsell Ritchie

by Amy Ella Blanchard

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Henry James

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

by Mark Twain

by Ellis Parker Butler

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Edith Wharton

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Reginald Wright Kauffman

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Meredith Nicholson

by Carolyn Wells

by Morgan Scott