American Literature

Copyright © 2001 Richard Seltzer

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Table of Contents of the Americal Literature CD

This American Literature 2-CD set , with 3426 books by 904 authors, in plain text,  is available for $49 at our online store.

Table of Contents


About American Literature


Poetry Collections and Books About American Poetry


Prose Collections and Multiple Authors

  • American Indian Stories by Zikala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin)
  • The Best American Humorous Short Stories edited by Alexander Jessup
  • Best Ghost Stories (Modern Library)
  • Best Short Stories of 1915
  • Best Short Stories of 1917
  • Best Short Stories of 1920 edited by Edward J. O'Brien
  • Best Short Stories of 1921 edited by Edward J. O'Brien
  • The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, volume 9 of 10, America edited by Henry Cabot Lodge
  • The California Birthday Book (selections form the writings of California writers, with a biographical sketch of each) edited by George Wharton James
  • Different Girls, novelettes edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden
  • Essays English and American, from the Harvard Classics collection
  • Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, and Bayard Taylor by Sherwin Cody, 1899
  • Gifts of Genius, a Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors
  • Golden Stories
  • Good Stories [jokes] Reprinted from the Ladies' Home Journal
  • Humour of the North selected by Larence J. Burpee
  • Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, volume 1
  • The Lock and Key Library, volume 4, edited by Julian Hawthorne
  • Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor edited by Thomas Masson, volume 4. Includes:

  • Literary Periodicals


    Anonymous


    Henry Abbey


    Jacob Abbott


    Keene Abbott (1876-1941)


    Alex St. Clair Abrams (1844-1931), bio in Wikipedia


    Andy Adams (1859-1935), bio in Wikipedia


    Francis Colburn Adams


    Franklin P. Adams


    Henry Adams (1838-1918), bio in Wikipedia


    John Turville Adams


    Samuel Adams (1722-1803), bio at Wikipedia


    Samuel Hopkins Adams


    Jane Addams (1860-1935), bio at Wikipedia


    Alvin Addison


    George Ade (1866-1944), bio at Wikipedia


    Effie Afton


    John Albee (1933-1915)


    Louisa Mae Alcott (1832-1888), bio at Wikipedia


    Isabella M. Alden (AKA "Pansy") (1841-1930)


    Mildred Aldrich (1853-1928), bio at Wikipedia


    Thomas Bailey Aldrich, editor of the Atlantic Monthly 1881–1890


    Horatio Alger, Jr. (1834-1899), bio at Wikipedia


    Luke Allan


    James Lane Allen


    Anne Crosby Emery Allinson (1871-1932)


    Young Ewing Allison (1853-1932), bio at Wikipedia


    Sophie M. Almon-Hensley (1866-1913)


    Joseph Altsheler (1862-1919), bio at Wikipedia


    Joseph B. Ames


    Nephi Anderson (1865-1923)


    Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941), bio at Wikipedia


    Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (1860-1936)


    Wilder Anthony


    Mary Antin


    Timothy Shay Arthur (1809-1885), bio at Wikipedia


    Warren Ashton


    John Jacob Astor


    Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948), bio at Wikipedia


    Eleanor Atkinson


    Anne Austin (1895-?)


    Jane Austin


    Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934)


    Bernie Babcock


    Irving Bacheller (1859-1950), bio at Wikipedia


    Josephine Daskam Bacon


    Temple Bailey (1885-1953), bio at Wikipedia


    Waldron Baily


    George Bain


    Karle Wilson Baker (1878-1960)


    Maturin M. Ballou


    Edith Bancroft


    John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922), bio at Wikipedia


    Anna Maynard Barbour


    Ralph Henry Barbour


    Florence Louisa Barclay (1862-1921)


    Jared Barhite


    Benjamin Barker


    Nettie Garmer Barker


    Joel Barlow


    Richard Barnum


    Amelia Barr (1831-1919), bio at Wikipedia


    George Barr


    James Francis Barrett


    Rev. Michael Barrett


    Frederick Orin Bartlett


    James Avis Bartley


    Sara Ware Bassett


    Rex Beach (1877-1949)


    Ross Beeckman


    Henry Beers


    David Belasco (1853-1931), bio at Wikipedia


    David W. Belisle


    Lillian Bell


    Edward Bellamy (1850-1896), bio at Wikipedia


    Martha Bellinger (1870-1960)


    Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943), bio at Wikipedia


    Robert Ames Bennet (1870-1954)


    Virginia Bennett


    J.D. Beresford


    Ambrose Bierce (AKA Dod Grile) (1842-1914), bio at Wikipedia


    Earl Derr Biggers


    Harold Bindloss (1866-1945)


    Ottwell Binns


    Robert Bird


    Emily Calvin Blake (1882-?)


    Amy Blanchard


    Edward William Bok (1863-1930), bio at Wikipedia


    George Henry Boker (1823-1890), bio at Wikipedia


    Charles E. Bolton (1841-1901)


    J.F. Bone


    Geraldine Bonner (1870-1839), bio at Wikipedia


    F.W. Boreham


    Kate Langley Bosher (1865-1932)


    Sue Petigru Bowen (1824-1975)


    B.M. Bower (= Bertha M. Sinclair = husband of Bertrand Sinclair) (1871-1849)


    Earl Wayland Bowman


    E.E. Boyd


    Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen


    Paul Boyton (1848-1914), bio at Wikipedia


    James A. Braden


    Charles Wesley Bradshaw, 1837-1927


    Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)


    Cyrus Townsend Brady


    Max Brand (pseudonym of  Frederick Schiller Faust) (1892 - 1944), bio at Wikipedia


    Edith Gilman Brewster


    Olive Briggs


    Charles Brooks


    The Reverend Phillips Brooks (bishop of Massachusetts) (1835-1893), bio at Wikipedia


    Virginia Brooks


    Alice Brown (1857-1948), bio at Wikipedia


    Charles Brockton Brown (1771-1810), bio at Wikipedia


    John Brown


    Ritter Brown


    William Wells Brown (1816?-1884), bio at Wikipedia


    William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), bio at Wikipedia


    William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), bio at Wikipedia


    Charles Neville Buck (1879-1930)


    Oliver Bell Bunce (1828-1890)


    H.C. Bumner


    Ned Buntline


    Martha Cannary Burk (AKA Calamity Jane) (1852-1903), bio at Wikipedia


    Charles Burke


    Alice Hale Burnett


    Frances Hodgson Burnett


    Clara Louise Burnham


    Aaron Burr (1756-1836), bio at Wikipedia


    Jane Burr


    Edgar Rice Burroughs


    John Burroughs (1832-1921), bio at Wikipedia


    Katharine Newlin Burt


    Ellis Parker Butler


    Hezikiah Butterworth (1839-1905)


    James Branch Cabell (1879-1958), bio at Wikipedia


    George Cable (1844-1925), bio at Wikipedia


    Abraham Cahan


    Frances Boyd Calhoun


    Wadsworth Camp


    Dorothy Canfield (Fisher) (1879-1958), bio at Wikipedia


    Rosa Nouchette Carey


    Margaret Sprague Carhart (1877-?)


    Henry Fisk Carlton


    S. Carleton


    Charles E. Carryl (1841-1920)


    Captain James Carson (=pseudonum used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the Saddle Boys series)


    Charles Franklin Carter


    Nicholas Carter


    Gordon Casserly


    Arnold Castle


    Virginia Carter Castleman


    Harry Castlemon


    Willa Cather (1873-1947), bio at Wikipedia


    Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1847-1902)


    Lucia Chamberlain


    Robert Chambers (1865-1933), bio at Wikipedia


    Heman White Chaplin (1847-1924)


    John Jay Chapman


    S.E. Chapman


    Thomas S. Chard


    Mary Ellen Chase


    Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), bio at Wikipedia


    George Randolph Chester (1869-1924)


    Richard Washburn Child (1881-1935)


    A.M. Chisholm


    Kate Chopin (1850-1904), bio at Wikipedia


    Winston Churchill (American, not Sir Winston Churchill) (1871-1947), bio at Wikipedia


    Cecilia Cleveland (1850-?)


    J. Storer Clouston


    Irvin S. Cobb


    Hiram Alfred Cody (1872-1948)


    William Frederick Cody (Buffalo Bill) (1846-1917), bio at Wikipedia


    Charles Carleton Coffin


    Everett B. Cole


    Will Levinton Comfort


    Harriet Theresa Comstock (1860-?)


    James Connolly


    Ebenezer Cook (c. 1661- c. 1732)


    John Esten Cooke (1830-1886), bio at Wikipedia


    Dane Coolidge


    Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940), bio at Wikipedia


    James A. Cooper


    James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), bio at Wikipedia

    about Cooper


    Susan Fenimore Cooper


    Alfred Coppel


    C.B. Cory


    Mrs. Everard Cotes (Sara Jeannette Duncan) (1862?-1922)


    O.W. Coursey


    Kenyon Cox (1856-1919), bio at Wikipedia


    Charles Egbert Craddock


    Stephen Crane (1871-1900), bio at Wikipedia


    Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909), bio at Wikipedia


    Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850-1887)


    Will M. Cressy


    Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1731-1813), bio at Wikipedia


    S.R. Crockett


    Victoria Cross (1868-1952), bio at Wikipedia


    Samuel McChord Crothers


    Ridgwell Cullum (AKA Sidney Grove Bughard) (1867-1943)


    Ray Cummings


    Edward Curnick


    Alice Turner Curtis


    Captain Charles Albert Curtis (1835-1907)


    James Oliver Curwood (1878-1927), bio at Wikipedia


    Charles Phelps Cushing


    Leona Dalrymple


    Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882), bio at Wikipedia


    Olive Tilford Dargan


    Rebecca Harding Davis


    Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916), bio at Wikipedia


    William Stearns Davis (1877-1930)


    Coningsby William Dawson (1883-1959)


    Sarah Morgan Dawson


    Clarence Day, Jr. (1874-1935), bio at Wikipedia


    Holman Day (1896-1935)


    John William De Forest (826-1906), bio at Wikipedia


    Frederick Dellenbaugh (1853-1935)


    James de Mille


    Gaston Devreaux


    John Dewey (1859-1952), bio at Wikipedia


    Orville Dewey (1794-1882), bio at Wikipedia


    Paul Dickey and Charles Goddard


    Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), bio at Wikipedia


    Mary Dillon


    Captain A.E. Dingle


    Thomas Dixon (1864-1946), bio at Wikipedia


    Henry Irving Dodge


    Louis Dodge


    Mary Mapes Dodge (1831-1905), bio at Wikipedia


    George W. Doneghy


    Annie Hamilton Donnell


    Ignatius Donnelly (1831-1901), bio at Wikipedia


    Hilda Doolitte, AKA H.D. (1886-1961)


    John Dos Passos (1896-1970), bio at Wikipedia


    L. Dougall


    Amanda M. Douglas


    Frederick Douglass (1817-1895), bio at Wikipedia


    Edward Doyle


    Captain William F. Drannan (1832-1913)


    Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945), bio at Wikipedia


    Hamilton Drummond


    W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois (1868-1963), bio at Wikipedia


    J.W. Duffield


    Alice Dunbar


    Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), bio at Wikipedia


    Norman Duncan


    J. Allan Dunn


    Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)


    Francis Durivage (1814-1881)


    Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) (1858-1939), bio at Wikipedia


    Mrs. Mary Henderson Eastman (1818-1887)


    Walter Prichard Eaton


    Mary Baker Eddy


    H.M. Egbert (AKA Victor Rousseau Emanuel) (1879-1960)


    Edward Eggleston (1837-1902), bio at Wikipedia


    Edward Eldridge


    T.S. Eliot


    Edward Sylvester Ellis (AKA R.H. Jayne) (1840-1916)


    James Tandy Ellis


    Alice Emerson


    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), bio at Wikipedia


    Augusta Evans (1835-1909)


    Hal G. Evarts (1887-1934)


    Evelyn Everett-Green (1856-1932)


    Martha Leewis Beckwith Ewell (1841-1902)


    Mary McNeil Fenollosa


    Edna Ferber (1885-1968), bio at Wikipedia


    Harvey Ferguson


    Al G. Field


    Charles K. Field (AKA Carolus Ager)


    Edward Salisbury Field


    Eugene Field (1850-1895), bio at Wikipedia


    James Fields (1817-1881), editor of the Atlantic Monthly 1861-1871 bio at Wikipedia


    Martha Finley (1828-1909)


    Arthur Davidson Ficke


    Frederick Vining Fisher


    James Fiske


    Clark Fitch


    Clyde Fitch (1865-1909), bio at Wikipedia


    George Fitch (1877-1915)


    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), bio at Wikipedia


    O. P. Fitzgerald


    Robert Fitzgerald


    Brandon Fleming


    May Agnes Fleming


    Oliver Fleming


    J.S. Fletcher


    Jesse Graham Flower (AKA Josephine Chase) (?-1931)


    Hulbert Footner


    Paul Leicester Ford


    Sewell Ford


    Jean Forsythe (AKA Jean Newton McIlwraith) (1859-1938)


    Charles Fort


    John Fox, Jr. (1863-1919)


    Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), bio at Wikipedia


    Chelsea Curtis Fraser


    William Alexander Fraser (1859-1933)


    Harold Frederic (1856-1898)


    John Frederick


    Mary Belle Freeley


    Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930), bio at Wikipedia


    Allen French


    Frank Froest


    Robert Frost (1874-1963), bio at Wikipedia


    Anna Fuller


    Henry Fuller


    Geore Stuart Fullerton


    Miriam Gaines


    Zona Gale (1874-1938), bio at Wikipedia


    Major Gambier-Parry


    Howard Garis


    Hamlin Garland (1860-1940), bio at Wikipedia


    Theodosia Garrison


    Charles Garvice


    Glance Gaylord


    George Gibbs


    Mifflin Wistar Gibbs


    William Hamlton Gibson


    Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860-1935), bio at Wikipedia


    Leigh Gordon Giltner


    Ellen Glasgow


    Susan Glaspell (1876-1948), bio at Wikipedia


    Montague Glass


    Elinor Glyn (1864-1943), bio at Wikipedia


    Charles Goddard (1879-1951), bio at Wikipedia


    George Paul Goff


    George Goodchild


    Maud Wilder Goodwin


    Margaret Collier Graham


    Robert Grant (1852-1940), bio at Wikipedia


    L.P. Gratacap


    Walter Gray


    William Murray Graydon (1864-1946)


    David Grayson (pseudonum of Ray Stannard Baker)


    Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935), bio at Wikipedia


    Sarah P. McLean Greene (1856-1935)


    Eliot Gregory


    Jackson Gregory (1882-1943)


    Zane Grey (1872-1939), bio at Wikipedia


    Arthur Griffiths (1838-1908)


    Sutton Griggs


    R. Norman Grisewood


    Joseph Grismer (1849-1922)


    Frederick Philip Grove (1879?-1948), bio at Wikipedia


    Edgar A. Guest (1881-1959), bio at Wikipedia


    Charles Gunnison (1861-1897)


    Eliza Paul Gurney (1801-1881)


    John Habberton (1842-1921), bio at Wikipedia


    Hermann Hagedorn (1882-1964)


    Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909), bio at Wikipedia


    Lucretia Hale


    Angelo Hall (1868-?)


    Charles Hall


    Eliza Calvert Hall


    James Norman Hall (1887-1951), bio at Wikipedia


    Jarvis Hall


    Sarah Hallowell


    Francis Halsey (1851-1919), bio at Wikipedia


    Harlan Page Halsey (1839?-1898)


    Gail Hamilton


    Margaret Wolfe Hamilton


    Sidford F. Hamp


    H. Irving Hancock (1868-1922), bio at Wikipedia


    Arthur Preston Hankins (1880-1932)


    Hutchins  Hapgood


    Will N. Harben (1858-1919)


    Walter Ben Hare


    Henry Harland


    Marion Harland


    Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911), bio at Wikipedia


    Credo Harris


    Frank Harris (1856-1931), bio at Wikipedia


    Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908), bio at Wikipedia


    S.F. Harrison


    Bret Harte (1836-1902), bio at Wikipedia

    works about Bret Harte


    Milo Hastings (1884-1957)


    Charles Boardman Hawes (1889-1923)


    Clarence Hawkes


    Walter Hawkins


    Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934)


    Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), bio at Wikipedia


    Helen Hay (AKA Helen Hay Whitney) (1875-1944)


    James Hay, Jr.


    John Hay (1835-1905), bio at Wikipedia


    Mrs. W. J. Hays


    Rachel Hayward


    Ben Hecht


    Annie French Hector (1825-1902) (AKA Mrs. Alexander)


    L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone (1844-1928), bio at Wikipedia


    Hetty Hemenway


    Vivia Hemphill


    Burton Jesse Hendrick (1870-1949)


    James Hendryx (1880-1963)


    O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) (1862-1910), bio at Wikipedia


    Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz


    Henry William Herbert


    Oliver Herford (AKA Peter Simple)


    Joseph Hergesheimer (1880-1954), bio at Wikipedia


    Charlotte Herr


    Robert Herrick (1868-1938), bio at Wikipedia


    Maurice Hewlett


    Thomas Wentworth Higginson


    Grace Livingston Hill (Lutz) (1865-1947)


    Hjalmar Hjorth (1848-1895)


    George Hobart


    Joseph Hocking


    Marietta Holley (AKA Josiah Allen's wife) (1836-1926), bio at Wikipedia


    Mary Jane Holmes (1825-1907)


    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894), bio at Wikipedia


    Arthur Hornblow


    Isabel Hornibrook


    Mary Gardiner Horsford (1824-1855)


    Emerson Hough (1857-1923), bio at Wikipedia


    Clemence Housman


    Bronson Howard (1842-1908), bio at Wikipedia


    Hattie Howard


    Andrew J. Howell, Jr.


    William Dean Howells (1837-1920), bio at Wikipedia


    Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), bio at Wikipedia


    Walter Hubbell (1851-1932)


    Ethel Hueston (1887-?)


    Langston Hughes (1902-1967), bio at Wikipedia


    Rupert Hughes (1872-1956)


    James Huneker (1860-1921)


    Colonel William C. Hunter


    Zora Neale Hurston (1901?-1960), bio at Wikipedia


    Colonel Henry Inman (1837-1899)


    Washington Irving (1783-1859), bio at Wikipedia


    Inez Haynes Irwin


    Will Irwin


    Daniel Jackson, Jr.


    Helen Hunt Jackson (H.H.) (1830-1885), bio at Wikipedia


    Caroline E. Jacobs


    Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897), (AKA Linda Brent) bio at Wikipedia


    Henry James (1843-1916), bio at Wikipedia


    William James (1842-1910), bio at Wikipedia


    Thomas Allibone Janvier


    Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), bio at Wikipedia


    Rosa Vertner Jeffrey


    Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909), bio at Wikipedia


    James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), bio at Wikipedia


    Owen Johnson


    Annie Fellows Johnston (1863-1931)


    J.P. Johnston


    Mary Johnston (1870-1936), bio at Wikipedia


    Edward Smyth Jones


    John Beauchamp Jones (1810-1866)


    David Starr Jordan (1851-1931), bio at Wikipedia


    Ross Kay


    Henry Keenan


    Marian Keith


    Clarence Budington Kelland


    Helen Keller (1880-1968), bio at Wikipedia


    Ethel M. Kelley


    Florence Finch Kelly


    Frances Ann Kemble (1809-1893), bio at Wikipedia


    Sidney Kennedy and Alden Noble


    Francis Parkinson Keyes (1885-1970), bio at Wikipedia


    Hervey Keyes


    Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918), bio at Wikipedia


    Basil King


    Charles King (1844-1933), bio at Wikipedia


    Charles Klein and Arthur Hornblow


    Henry Herbert Knibbs


    Anne Knish


    Edith Eudora Kohl


    Peter B. Kyne


    Claude A. LaBelle


    Archibald Lampman


    Elinor Macartney Lane


    Franklin Lane (1864-1921), bio at Wikipedia


    Sidney Lanier


    David Lannark


    Lucy Larcom


    Ring Lardner (1885-1933), bio at Wikipedia


    Clara E. Laughlin


    Agnes Laut (1871-1936)


    Elwell Lawrence


    Alfred Lawson (1869-1954), bio at Wikipedia


    Emma Lazarus


    Frederick John Lazell (1870-1940)


    Carson Jay Lee


    Minnie Mary Lee


    Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903), bio at Wikipedia


    Mary F. Leonard


    Emma Leslie


    Lawrence Leslie


    Alfred Henry Lewis (1857-1914)


    Merriwether Lewis (1744-1809), bio at Wikipedia and William Clark (1770-1838), bio at Wikipedia


    Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), bio at Wikipedia


    Wilmarth Lewis


    Ottilie A. Liljencrantz


    Will Lillibridge (1878-1909)


    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), bio at Wikipedia


    Jeannie Gould Lincoln


    Joseph Lincoln (1870-1944), bio at Wikipedia


    Natalie Lincoln (1885-1937)


    Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931), bio at Wikipedia


    Walter Lippmann (1889-1974), bio at Wikipedia


    Edwin Carlile Litsey


    Frances Little (AKA Frannie Caldwell Macaulay) (1863-1941)


    Mary B. Little


    Nelson Lloyd (1873-1933)


    Caroline Lockhart


    Jack London (1876-1916), bio at Wikipedia


    Helen Beecher Long


    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), bio at Wikipedia


    George Looms


    Thomas Lounsberry (1838-1915), bio at Wikipedia


    Nat Love (AKA Deadwood Dick)


    Ingraham Lovell


    Amy Lowell (1874-1925), bio at Wikipedia7


    James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), editor of the Atlantic Monthly 1857-1861 bio at Wikipedia


    Mark Lee Luther (1872-?)


    Lawrence L. Lynch


    Francis Lynde (1856-1930)


    Hamilton Wright Mabie (1845-1916), bio at Wikipedia


    Alice MacGowan


    Harold MacGrath (1871-1932), bio at Wikipedia


    Harold Steele MacKaye (1844?-1894)


    S. MacNaughtan


    Julia Magruder


    Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914), bio at Wikipedia


    Charles Major (1856-1913), bio at Wikipedia


    Belle Kanaris Maniates


    Victor Mapes (1870-1943)


    Max Marcin (1879-1948)


    J.P. Marquand


    Don Marquis


    Edison Marshall


    Edward Marshall (1870-1933)


    Walt Mason


    Edward Lee Masters (1869-1950), bio at Wikipedia


    Cotton Mather


    Brander Matthews (1852-1929), bio at Wikipedia


    Arthur Bartlett Maurice (1873-1946)


    Rutherford Mayne


    Margaret Hill McCarter (1860-1938)


    Geroge McCarthy


    Mary Greenway McClelland (1853-1895)


    James McClintock


    George Barr McCutcheon (1866-1928), bio at Wikipedia


    Donald McGibeny


    John McGovern


    John T. McIntyre


    Anna Benneson McMahan


    Everett McNeil


    Herman Melville (1819-1891), bio at Wikipedia


    H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), bio at Wikipedia


    Ellis Meredith


    Nicholson Meredith


    Bannister Merwin


    A. Merritt


    Zoe Meyer


    Miriam Michelson


    Philip Verrill Mighels


    Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), bio at Wikipedia


    Elizabeth Miller


    Joaquin Miller


    Leo E. Miller


    John Ames Mitchell (1845-1918)


    Langdon Mitchell


    Ruth Comfort Mitchell


    S. Weir Mitchell, (AKA Silas Weir) (1829-1914), bio at Wikipedia


    Bertram Mitford


    Cleveland Moffett (1863-1926)


    Frederick F. Moore


    Leslie Moore


    Paul Elmer More


    Christopher Morley (1890-1957), bio at Wikipedia


    Charles Morris (1833-1922)


    Gouverneur Morris


    Heady Morrison (AKA Uncle Juvinell)


    William Morrison


    W.C. Morrow


    David Morton


    Walter Fenton Mott


    John Muir (1838-1914), bio at Wikipedia


    Lenore Elizabeth Mulets


    Dell H. Munger


    Joseph Munk (1847-1927)


    Charles Clark Munn


    Neil Munro


    Kirk Munroe (1850-1930)


    Frank A. Munsey


    W.H.H. Murray


    John Roy Musick (1849-1901)


    Anna Balmer Myers


    George Jean Nathan


    Robert Nathan (1894-1985)


    John Neihardt (1881-1973), bio at Wikipedia


    Richard Neville


    Meredith Nicholson (1866-1947)


    Frank Norris (1870-1902), bio at Wikipedia


    Kathleen Norris


    Zoe Andersen Norris


    Brayton Norton


    Bill Nye (1850-1896), bio at Wikipedia


    William D. O'Connor


    Pat O'Cotter


    G.W. Ogden


    Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953), bio at Wikipedia


    Oliver Optic (= William Adams)


    A.J. O'Reilly


    Duffield Osborne


    Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1810-1850), bio at Wikipedia


    James Otis (= pseudonym of James Otis Kaler) (1848-1912)


    Grant Overton


    Henry Oyen (1883-1921)


    Frank Packard


    Thomas Nelson Page


    Albert Bigelow Paine


    Dorothy C. Paine


    Thomas Paine (1737-1809), bio at Wikipedia


    Frederick Palmer (1873-1958)


    Lester Shepard Parker


    Francis Parkman (1823-1893), bio at Wikipedia


    Randall Parrish (1858-1923), bio at Wikipedia


    Frank Gee Patchin (1861-1925)


    Ford Paul


    Elia Wilkinson Peattie


    George Peck (1840-1916), bio at Wikipedia


    Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton


    Hugh Pendexter


    Lucy Fitch Perkins


    Lawrence Perry


    Henry Peterson


    David Graham Phillips


    Stephen Phillips


    La Salle Corbett Pickett (1848-1931)


    Charles Felton Pidgin (1844-1923)


    Lieutenant-Colonel Pinckney


    Allan Pinkerton


    Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), bio at Wikipedia


    Ernest Poole (1880-1950), bio at Wikipedia


    Benjamin Perley Poore (1820-1887)


    Emily Post


    Margaret Potter


    Eugenia Dunlap Potts


    John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), bio at Wikipedia


    William Prescott


    Margaret Preston


    Olive Higgins Prouty (1882-1974), bio at Wikipedia


    Herbert Quick


    Lemuel Ely Quigg


    William MacLeod Raine (1871-1954)


    Edwin C. Ranck


    Anna Chapin Ray (1865-1945)


    Evelyn Raymond


    Opie Read (1852-1939), bio at Wikipedia


    Myrtle Reed (1874-1911)


    Arthur Rees


    Arthur Reeve (1880-1936), bio at Wikipedia


    Ira Louis Reeves (1872-1939)


    Captain Mayne Reid (1818-1883), bio at Wikipedia


    Frederic Remington (1861-1909), bio at Wikipedia


    Agnes Repplier (1858-1950), bio at Wikipedia


    Mack Reynolds


    Eugene Manlove Rhodes (1869-1934)


    Alice Hegan Rice


    James Richardson


    Grace S. Richmond (1866-1959)


    Jacob Riis (1849-1914), bio at Wikipedia


    Charles Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916), bio at Wikipedia


    Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958), bio at Wikipedia


    Anna Cora Ritchie


    Amelie Rives


    Charles Roberts


    Elizabeth Madox Roberts


    Margaret Murray Robertson


    Morgan Robertson


    Elizabeth Robins


    Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), bio at Wikipedia


    Eliot Robinson


    Morgan Robinson


    Edward P. Roe


    Will Rogers (1879-1935), bio at Wikipedia


    Francis Rolt-Wheeler


    Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) bio at Wikipedia


    Wyn Roosevelt


    Albert Ross


    Mary White Rowlandson (1635-1716)


    W. Clark Russell


    Marah Ellis Ryan


    Edwin L. Sabin


    Emma Speed Sampson


    Kate Sanborn (1839-1917)


    George W. Sands


    Margaret E. Sangster


    George Santayana (1863-1952), bio at Wikipedia


    Epes Sargent


    Marshall Saunders


    Ruth Sawyer


    Dorothy Scarborough


    Robert Haven Schauffler (1879-1964)


    Clilnton Scollard


    John Reed Scott (1869-?)


    Leroy Scott (1875-1929)


    Horace Elisha Scudder, editor of the Atlantic Monthly 1890–1898


    Anne Douglas Sedgwick


    Alan Seeger


    Charles Alden Seltzer (1875-1942)


    Garrett Putman Serviss (1851-1929)


    Ernest Seton-Thompson (1860-1946), bio at Wikipedia


    Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson


    Lillian Nicholson Sheardon


    Jean Snyder


    H.K. Shackleford


    George Clifford Shedd (1877-1937)


    Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon (1857-1946)


    Mrs. Georgie Sheldon (1843-1926)


    Margaret Sherwood


    Arthur Shirley


    Henry Shute


    Mrs. L.H. Sigourney


    W. Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), bio at Wikipedia


    Bertrand Sinclair (1881-1972)


    Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), bio at Wikipedia


    Charles Montgomery Skinner (1852-1907)


    Julia M. Sloane


    Captain Joshua Slocum (1844-1910?), bio at Wikipedia


    Alice Prescott Smith


    Frank Berkeley Smith


    Dama Margaret Smith (1892-1973)


    F. Hopkinson Smith


    John Talbot Smith


    J. Thorne Smith, Jr.


    Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth (1819-1899), bio at Wikipedia


    Frank Spearman


    Charles Sprague


    Norman Springer (1888-1974)


    Gordon Stables


    Mary Newton Stanard (1865-1929)


    Hal Standish


    Robert J.C. Stead (1880-1959)


    Jack Steele


    Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), bio at Wikipedia


    Louis John Stellman (1877-1961), bio at Wikipedia


    C.A. Stephens


    Robert Nelson Stephens


    Isaac N. Stevens


    Burton E. Stevenson (1872-1962)


    Elinore Pruitt Stewart


    William L. Stidger


    Herbert Baird Stimpson


    F.J. Stimson


    Frank Stockton (1834-1902), bio at Wikipedia


    Elizabeth Drew Stoddard


    Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903), bio at Wikipedia


    William O. Stoddard


    Barney Stone


    Rex Stout


    Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), bio at Wikipedia


    Edward Stratemeyer (AKA Arthur Winfield) (1862-1930), bio at Wikipedia


    Gene Stratton-Porter


    Julian Street


    John Williams Streeter


    W.P. Strickland


    Arthur Stringer (1874-1950)


    Harrington Strong


    Simeon Strunsky (1879-1948), bio at Wikipedia


    Ruth McEnery Stuart (?-1917)


    Mary Kellogg Sullivan


    Van Tassel Sutphen


    Thomas W. Talley


    Booth Tarkington (1869-1946), bio at Wikipedia


    Bayard Taylor (1825-1878), bio at Wikipedia


    Edward Taylor


    Robert Taylor


    Sara Teasdale (1884-1933), bio at Wikipedia


    Timothy Templeton


    Albert Payson Terhune


    Octave Thanet


    Ella Cheever Thayer


    Augustus Thomas (1857-1934), bio at Wikipedia


    Charles Thompson


    Charles Miner Thompson


    George Thompson


    Charles Goff Thomson


    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), bio at Wikipedia


    Eunice Tietjens


    Henry Timrod


    Robert Timsol


    Timothy Titcomb


    Charles Hanson Towne (1877-1949)


    Houghton Townley


    George Alfred Townsend (1841-1914)


    Mary Ashley Townsend (1832-1901) (AKA Xariffa), bio at Wikipedia


    Louis Tracy


    Arthur Train (1875-1945)


    Ralph Waldo Trine (1866-1958)


    J.T. Trowbridge


    Annie Eliort Trumbull


    Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull


    Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932), bio at Wikipedia


    Nat Turner (1800-1831), bio at Wikipedia


    Edmund Tuttle


    Mark Twain (AKA Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910), bio at Wikipedia


    Helen Van-Anderson


    Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933), bio at Wikipedia


    Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), bio at Wikipedia


    Mrs. Frances Fuller Victor (1826)-1902)


    Metta Victoria Full Victor


    George Sylvester Viereck (1884-1962), bio at Wikipedia


    Leon Vincent


    M.T.W.


    Mary T. Waggaman


    Charles Edmonds Walk


    Lew Wallace (1827-1905), bio at Wikipedia


    Eugene Walter (1874-1941)


    Mrs. O.F. Walton (1849-1939)


    Artemus Ward (AKA Charles Farrar Browne (1834-1867), bio at Wikipedia


    William Ware (1797-1852), bio at Wikipedia


    Cy Warman


    Anna Bartlett Warner (1824-1915)


    Anne Warner (1869-1913)


    Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900), bio at Wikipedia


    Susan Warner (AKA Elizabeth Wetherell) (1819-1885), bio at Wikipedia


    Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814), bio at Wikipedia


    Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), bio at Wikipedia


    George Washington (1732-1799), bio at Wikipedia


    H.B. Marriott Watson


    Virginia Watson


    Mrs. J.B. Webb


    Daniel Webster (1782-1852), bio at Wikipedia


    Frank Webster V.


    Jean Webster


    Ella Fraser Weller


    Carolyn Wells


    Marion Craig Wentworth (1872-?)


    Edward Noyes Westcott (1847-1898)


    Frank N. Westcott


    Elizabeth Wetherell


    Stanley J. Weyman


    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), bio at Wikipedia


    Phillis Wheatley, negro servant to John Wheatley of Boston (1753-1784), bio at Wikipedia


    Edward Wheeler


    Charles Whibley


    James Abbott McNeill Whistler


    Harriet Manning Whitcomb


    Grace Miller White


    Stewart Edward White (1873-1946)


    William Patterson White


    Stephen French Whitman


    Walt Whitman (1819-1892), bio at Wikipedia


    Mrs. Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (1824-1906), bio at Wikipedia


    John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), bio at Wikipedia


    Margaret Widdemer


    Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) brief bio at Wikipedia


    Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919), bio at Wikipedia


    Percival Wilde


    Hugh Wiley


    Ben Ames Williams


    Isabel Cecilia Williams


    James Williams


    Charles Norris Williamson (1859-1920) and Alice Muriel Williamson (?-1933)


    Barrett Willoughby (?-1959), bio at Wikipedia


    Honore Willsie (AKA Honore Willsie Morrow) (1880-1940)


    Augusta Evans Wilson (1835-1909)


    Harry Leon Wilson (1867-1939)


    Anna Green Winslow


    Helen Winslow


    Alice Ames Winter


    Thomas A. Wise


    Owen Wister (1860-1938), bio at Wikipedia


    Elisabeth Woodbridge


    Mrs. Wilson Woodrow (AKA Nancy Mann Waddel Woodrow) (1870-1935)


    Francis Channing Woodworth (1812-1859)


    Elizabeth Strong Worthington


    George F. Worts


    Anna Potter Wright


    Harold Bell Wright (1872-1944)


    Horace Wyndham


    Katherine Yates (1865-1951)


    Egerton Ryerson Young


    Princess Vera Zarovitch




    This American Literature 2-CD set, with 3426 books by 904 authors,  in plain text,  is available for $49 at our online store.

    If you would like to have your PC  read these texts aloud to you, while they are displayed in text on the screen, see below about the free ReadPlease software that we have included on this CD. (NB -- This version of  the ReadPlease software does not run on Macs).

    User's Guide: Suggestions on how to get the most out of your books on CD ROM

    Important facts about this book collection on CD

    These books are in plain text format. You can copy them onto your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as backup in case of damage to the original.  You can open these books by clicking on the titles in this index page with your Web browser or a recent Windows-based word processor.

    We publish plain text books (unencrypted) on CD, and we want to provide a simple way for customers and other interested people to share their insights into how to get the most out of this new way of reading and studying. To do so we have set up an email discussion group at Yahoo. All are welcome to join and to post here, but I'll manage this group in "moderated" style, filtering messages before they go out to the whole group, to control the volume of the messages and to make sure that they are on-topic. Tips and information that would be helpful to people you have plain text books on CD are welcome -- including examples of how you are using yours, suggestions for improvement,  suggestions for future CDs, and useful/interesting texts found on the Web that should be included in future CDs. To subscribe, go to the discussion group Web site at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/plaintextbooksoncd  or send a blank email to plaintextbooksoncd-subscribe@yahoogroups.com



    How to install and use the free ReadPlease software included on this CD

    Text-to-voice conversion software can allow you to hear as well as read these books. So you can test this capability and decide if it might be valuable to you, we include the include the installation file for ReadPlease 2003 on this CD. (NB -- This version of  the ReadPlease software does not run on Macs).You can use that file to install a trial copy of ReadPlease Plus, which is a commercial-quality product and can read files of any size. This trial copy is good for 30 days, after which, if you wish, you could buy a license from ReadPlease for $49.95. As an alternative, you can use that same file to install their free version, which doesn't expire, but which can only handle 16K of text at a time; which means that to read a book, you would have to copy and paste one peice of text after another.

    Click here if you would like to install this software. When you click on that link, you will be asked wheter you want to save it on your computer or just run it. Choose Save -- it will only take about 10 Mbytes; so choose Save. Then select which version you want to install and the directory that you'd like to put it in. When the rapid, automatic installation is done, you will be able to open ReadPlease by clicking on an icon on your desktop.

    When running ReadPlease, click on File, then Open, and browse to the texts you are interested on the CD (or any other text file you have). Click on Play and it will start "reading" the book aloud to you. Highlight a chunk of text (of any size) with your browser and then click on Selection, and it will read the text you selected. Controls in the right column allow you to change the speed of the voice (with a sliding bar), change the font size (with a sliding bar), and switch among four different voices (with the right and left arrows).

    When you run ReadPlease, you see the text, with yellow highlighting moving from one word to the next, while you hear that same text. And you can at any time edit the text in the video window. Just position your cursor, click you mouse, and type whatever you like -- for instance, annotation or marks to show where you last stopped reading. Then save the edited file on your hard drive.

    Please keep in mind that ReadPlease is their software not ours. They are the experts on it. They have even better versions with even clearer, more natural voices, which they sell. You can listen to samples at their Web site www.readplease.com, where you can also see detailed help files.  And you can contact them at: ReadPlease Corporation, 121 Cherry Ridge Road, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada P7G 1A7. Phone: 807-474-7702



    Tips for using/enjoying the texts on this CD:

    The easiest way to get started is to click on My Computer, then on your CD drive, then on index.html. That should bring you to index.html, in Word or your Web browser, or WordPad or Notepad, depending on your computer's setup.)

    From the index, click on an individual work to see the full text in your browser or in Word. Click "Back" in your browser to return here.  Use the "find" function in your browser (under Edit/Find in both Netscape and IE) to find any word or phrase within a document.

    If you use Word, you can Select All [under Edit], and modify the font and type size (to make the letters larger and easier to read) [under Format and Font], and save the files on your hard drive [under File, Save As] with whatever changes you have made (including notes you made while reading).


    Note regarding copyright:  We include works published in the US before 1923, works from Australia and Canada when the author died 50 years or more ago, and works from the European Union (including the United Kingdom and Ireland) when the author died 70 years or more ago. NB -- Due to The European Union's extension of copyright by 20 years to 70 years after the death of the author, many works which had been in the public domain under the previous law are now once again under copyright. Hence we are unable to include on our CDs some popular writers whose works are still readily available over the Internet.


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