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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 Zane Grey

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Richard Harding Davis

by Bret Harte

by William Dean Howells

by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

by Jean Webster

by Ruel Perley Smith

by Nephi Anderson

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester

by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

by Mark Twain

by Sewell Ford

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Mark Twain

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Herman Melville

by William Dean Howells

by Walt Whitman

by Sinclair Lewis

by Mark Twain

by Booth Tarkington

by Stephen Crane

by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

by Kathleen Thompson Norris

by Edward Bellamy

by Merrill Tileston

by Henry Van Dyke

by Rex Beach

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

by Winston Churchill

by Geraldine Bonner

by Lyman Abbott

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

by Edgar Allan Poe

by I. (Isaac) Mitchell, Daniel Jackson

by Mark Twain

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Benjamin Franklin

by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

by James Russell Lowell

by Stephen Crane

by Jack London

by Henry Van Dyke

by Jack London

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

by William Dean Howells

by Upton Sinclair

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

by Hamlin Garland

by Ring Lardner

by William Dean Howells

by Kathleen Thompson Norris

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Richard Harding Davis

by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

by Charles Dudley Warner

by Mark Twain

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Benjamin Franklin

by Hamlin Garland

by Edward Bellamy

by Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Jean Webster

by Mark Twain

by Jack London

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Theodore Dreiser

by Francis Lynde

by Ernest Thompson Seton

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Winston Churchill

by Andy Adams

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Gene Stratton-Porter

by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

by Charles King

by Jack London

by Poul Anderson

by Zona Gale

by George William Curtis