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“Early in the gray and red dawn of a March morning in 1883, two wagons moved slowly out of Boomtown, the two-year-old ‘giant of the plains.’” Garland opens his description of a town in the Wild West and the people newly come to live there.

In Dred, a forceful anti-slavery novel, Harriet Beecher Stowe explores the issue of slavery from an African American perspective. She draws compelling portraits of Nina Gordon, the mistress of a slave plantation, and Dred, an escaped slave, examining conflicting beliefs about race, slavery, and the possibilities of violent resistance.

Stowe was the daughter of a prominent preacher, and the sister of the famous minister Henry Ward Beecher. This 1877 anthology of original and classic Christian hymns, essays, and homilies is organized by holiday, presenting thoughts for Advent, Christmas, the Epiphany, Lent, Passion Week, Easter, and the Ascension.

Eugene Witla, a promising young Midwestern artist created in Dreiser’s own image, moves from Chicago to New York in search of fulfillment. As the “genius” climbs social and financial ladders, he grows a voracious sexual appetite—the exploration of which put this book on the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice’s censure list.

This 1897 study of the American South features biographical studies of the region’s most influential figures, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Randolph, Vice President John C. Calhoun, Confederate vice president Alexander H. Stephens, Confederate general Robert Toombs, and Jefferson Davis.

The extraordinary life and times of advocate and agitator Wendell Phillips is vividly represented in this comprehensive biography. Tracing Phillips’s beginnings in Boston, Russell details the work of the “Soldier of the Common Good” as an abolitionist, his later efforts on behalf of freed slaves, and his advocacy for Native Americans.

Horace Greeley (1811-1872), who coined the phrase “Go West, young man,” was the founding editor of The New York Tribune. This life story, written only a year after the media titan’s death, traces Greeley’s progress from a journeyman printer to one of the pivotal figures of his time.

Horace Greeley (1811–1872) was an American newspaper editor whose New York Tribune was the country’s most influential periodical from the 1840s to the 1870s. James Parton’s biography of the legendary Greeley examines his life and the events that shaped him, “simply and solely because I liked...

The small town of Lithopolis, Ohio, is the home of the Wagnalls Memorial Library, designed and donated by publishing heiress Mabel Wagnalls. This charming 1922 volume collects O. Henry’s whimsical musings on writing, music, travel, pets, and life, from letters Wagnalls received from the celebrated short-story writer from 1903 to 1907.

This 1884 volume republishes articles that first appeared in magazines prior to Eliot's fame as a novelist.  Eliot herself selected and edited the articles prior to her death.  Included as well are a number of "notes" written by Eliot for later expansion in her novels or simply to develop an idea for...

This 1870 collection of essays was drawn from Emerson’s lectures delivered over the previous twelve years.  The title essay features Emerson's defense of solitude against the demands of society.  Among the other works included are "Civilization," "Art," "Eloquence," "Domestic Life," "Works and Days," and "Old Age."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (the Second Discourse) is one of the most important works of social philosophy of the Enlightenment. The Discourse is recognized today as a provocative and radically innovative text that anticipated anthropology, Marxist theory, the passionate...

From Washington Irving (1783–1859) to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940), the authors represented in this expansive American short story anthology invite you to see the world as they saw it. Irving’s culture-defining tales of American life—“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle”—offer...

This 1910 collection of stories, studies, and impressions includes one of Galsworthy's most notable short works, "The Japanese Quince."  A contemporary review in the New York Times praised the stories as "vivified by a passionate sympathy with life in its every manifestation."