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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 Harry Castlemon

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Walt Whitman

by Charles M. Sheldon

by Jack London

by Margaret Fuller

by O. Henry

by Mayne Reid

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Howe Hall

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Meredith Nicholson

by Kate Chopin

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Mark Twain

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft, E. Hoffmann Price

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Jack London

by William Dean Howells

by Arthur Bartlett Maurice

by Alfred Henry Lewis

by Sara Jeannette Duncan

by John William De Forest

by Arthur Cheney Train

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by John F. (John Fitzgerald) Kennedy

by Rex Beach

by Bayard Taylor, H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner, Rebecca Harding Davis, Brander Matthews, Albert Webster

by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Charles Dudley Warner

by Samuel Merwin, Henry Kitchell Webster

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Richard Wilson

by Burt L. Standish

by Henry James

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by A. Maynard (Anna Maynard) Barbour

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by Stewart Edward White

by Laura Lee Hope

by Henry Herbert Knibbs

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Kathleen Thompson Norris

by Josephine Chase

by Henry James

by Mark Twain

by Margaret Sidney

by James Lane Allen

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by George Barr McCutcheon

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Holman Day

by Roy Eliot Stokes

by Julian Hawthorne

by Upton Sinclair

by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by William Dean Howells

by Abbie Farwell Brown

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Rex Beach

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Charles King

by Rex Beach

by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

by Maria Thompson Daviess

by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith

by Anna Adolph

by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Mary Johnston

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

by Ayn Rand

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Jean Webster

by John D. (John Davison) Rockefeller

by Anna Katharine Green

by Lester Chadwick

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Jack London

by Mark Twain

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Amy Lowell

by O. Henry
by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Daniel Henderson

by Susan Coolidge

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Frank Norris

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by George Tucker

by Cleveland Moffett

by Jules Verne