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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 Edith Summers Kelley

by Dorothy Richardson

by Charles Brockden Brown

by Henry James

by James Branch Cabell

by Michael Pupin

by Charles Romyn Dake

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Hannah Webster Foster

by Catharine Maria Sedgwick

by Herman Melville

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Anna Katharine Green

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Stewart Edward White, Samuel Hopkins Adams

by Charles Major

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Mark Twain

by Eugene Field

by Rebecca Harding Davis

by Henry James

by Mark Twain

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Jack London

by Louisa May Alcott

by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by Theodore Dreiser

by Joyce Kilmer

by Louisa May Alcott

by Zitkala-Sa

by Mark Twain

by Vachel Lindsay

by Anna J. (Anna Julia) Cooper

by Marietta Holley

by Jack London

by Jack London

by Jack London
by Upton Sinclair

by Rex Beach

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Booth Tarkington

by Mark Twain

by Mark Twain

by Howard Roger Garis

by Mark Twain

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by William Dean Howells

by Louisa May Alcott

by B. M. Bower

by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Lee Masters

by Jack London

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Louisa May Alcott

by Frank Norris

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Murray Leinster

by Elbert Hubbard

by William Dean Howells

by Christy Mathewson

by Mark Twain

by Stephen Crane

by Edith Wharton

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Jack London

by Pansy

by Louisa May Alcott

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Mark Twain

by Upton Sinclair

by Kate Chopin

by Winston Churchill

by Zealia B. (Zealia Brown) Bishop, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Winston Churchill

by Väinö Hämeen-Anttila

by Ray Cummings

by Henry James

by Edgar Allan Poe

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Anna Katharine Green

by Frank Harris

by William MacLeod Raine