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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 Edgar Allan Poe

by Jack London

by Walt Whitman

by Ambrose Bierce

by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

by Robert Frost

by William J. (William Joseph) Long

by Booth Tarkington

by Edith Wharton

by Edith Wharton

by David Graham Phillips

by Harold Bell Wright

by Lafcadio Hearn

by Eleanor Gates

by Randall Parrish

by J. W. (Jacob William) Wright

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Andre Norton

by Frank Norris

by Hamlin Garland

by Mark Twain

by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

by Edwin Arlington Robinson

by Ambrose Bierce

by Edward Howard Griggs

by Richard Harding Davis

by Harold Bell Wright

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Mark Twain

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Daniel Webster

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Edith Wharton

by Marietta Holley

by Martha Finley

by Winston Churchill

by Mark Twain

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Louisa May Alcott

by Christopher Morley

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Oliver Optic, Edward Stratemeyer

by Edith Wharton

by George Ade

by Richard Henry Dana

by Sui Sin Far

by Mary Austin

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Sherwood Anderson

by Jacob Abbott

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Bret Harte

by Frederick Douglass

by Sinclair Lewis

by Sinclair Lewis

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Mark Twain

by William Dean Howells

by Jack London

by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

by Mark Twain

by Victor Appleton

by Richard Harding Davis

by Charles Klein, Arthur Hornblow

by Susan Glaspell

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Mary Antin

by P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by John Hay

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Charles Carleton Coffin

by Margaret Mayo

by William Dean Howells

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Carolyn Wells

by Olive Harper, Hal Reid

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Rex Beach

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Anzia Yezierska

by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Bret Harte

by William Dean Howells

by Jack London