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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 William Dean Howells

by Christopher Morley

by E. F. (Edward Francis) Harkins

by Various Authors

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Bret Harte

by James G. (James Gerald) Dunton

by Earl Derr Biggers

by Henry Van Dyke

by John Pendleton Kennedy

by Edgar Franklin

by Hutchins Hapgood

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by John Leacock

by Holman Day

by Constance Fenimore Woolson

by Owen Johnson

by Walter Prichard Eaton

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Louisa May Alcott

by Richard Harding Davis

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Amy Brooks

by James A. Cooper

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Channing Pollock

by Anna Katharine Green

by Will Lillibridge

by Clement Wood

by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

by Various Authors

by Anna Chapin Ray

by Frances Fuller Victor

by Julian Hawthorne

by Joel Chandler Harris

by Ruth Belmore Endicott

by Montague Glass

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Edith Bancroft

by Jacob Abbott

by Various Authors

by William Hussey Macy

by Kate Sanborn

by Eliza Calvert Hall

by Melville Davisson Post

by William Dean Howells

by Rex Beach

by Joseph Hergesheimer

by William Dean Howells

by Nina Rhoades

by Edward Alfred Steiner

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Edward Payson Roe

by Harry Leon Wilson

by John P. (John Phillips) Marquand

by Amy Bell Marlowe

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

by William Johnston

by Will Levington Comfort

by Anna Katharine Green

by Self-made man, Various Authors

by G. L. Vandenburg

by Various Authors

by C. M. (Charles McClellan) Stevens

by Charles Caldwell Dobie

by Everett T. (Everett Titsworth) Tomlinson

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Jane Abbott

by John Fielder Porte

by Mack Reynolds

by Henry William Herbert

by Burt L. Standish

by Margaret Vandercook

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Various Authors

by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

by Everard Jack Appleton

by Herbert Quick

by Various Authors

by Heman White Chaplin

by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene

by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

by Katherine Stokes

by Edison Marshall

by Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) Theiss

by H. (Henry) Bedford-Jones

by Wyndham Martyn, Roi Cooper Megrue

by William MacLeod Raine

by Milo Hastings

by Washington Irving

by Louise Vescelius Sheldon