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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 Victor Appleton

by Clyde Fitch

by Grand Central Art Galleries

by Kathleen Thompson Norris

by Mary White Ovington

by William Frederick Kirk

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Edwin Markham

by Jr. Horatio Alger, Edward Stratemeyer

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Elisabeth R. Lewis

by Joaquin Miller

by Rupert Hughes

by Henry James

by Albert W. Aiken

by Maria Thompson Daviess

by Fritz Leiber

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Frank V. Webster

by Harry Castlemon

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Esther Chamberlain, Lucia Chamberlain

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by David Graham Phillips

by Mabel Osgood Wright

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Winston Churchill

by Hannah Blaney Washburn

by Roy Norton

by Louisa May Alcott

by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

by Margaret Widdemer

by Edith Wharton

by Helen Keller

by William James

by Ambrose Bierce

by Stephen Crane

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Marietta Holley

by Harold Frederic

by Henry James

by Amy Lowell

by Mark Twain

by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

by Sara Teasdale

by Jack London

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

by Dorothy Parker

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Stephen Crane

by George Cary Eggleston

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Stephen Vincent Benét

by Charles Godfrey Leland

by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

by John Burroughs

by Susan Glaspell

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Abraham Lincoln

by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Jack London

by Sewell Ford

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Burton Egbert Stevenson

by William Dean Howells

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Laura Lee Hope

by Laura Lee Hope

by Harold MacGrath

by Mark Twain

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

by Dane Coolidge

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

by Mary Jane Holmes

by George S. (George Shepard) Chappell, Frank Crowninshield, Dorothy Parker

by George Washington Cable

by Various Authors

by Henry Irving Dodge

by Max Brand

by Ralph Chaplin

by David Graham Phillips

by Albert Payson Terhune

by James Branch Cabell

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Marietta Holley

by Kathleen Thompson Norris