Wieland, named by his father after a German nickname for the devil.

The Lady and the Pirate is a romance adventure novel from the well-known American author.

Nostromo is a classic anti-hero, who lives in a fictitious mining village on the coast.

Hailed as one of American literature's most influential works.

The Path of the Law is a short essay by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A beautiful American girl, Daisy Miller, is pursued by the sophisticated Winterbourne.

Collected here are a number of short stories by the popular American writer.

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a novella by American author Stephen Crane.

A country girl moves to the big city and lives her own version of the American Dream.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story, The Yellow Wallpaper is a valuable piece of American.

In How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, iconic American author Mark Twain discusses his own experience as a writer and his personal style.

One of the most famous non-fiction American books, Walden by Henry David Thoreau is the history of Thoreau's visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson's woodland retreat near Walden Pond.

The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe, focuses on a slave named Uncle Tom to weave a portrayal of the cruelty of slavery, finding redemption in the idea that Christian love can conquer something so destructive.

Charles Eastman, whose Sioux name was Ohiyesa (pronounced Oh hee' yay suh).

Charles Eastman, whose Sioux name was Ohiyesa (pronounced Oh hee' yay suh).

The Portrait of a Lady is perhaps Henry James' greatest novel.

William Wells Brown's Clotel or, The President's Daughter is often considered the first novel.

It is a good thing for all Americans, and it is an especially good thing for young Americans, to remember the men who have given their lives in war and peace to the service of their fellow-countrymen.

The Best American Humorous Short Stories features tales from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and many other well known writers.

American essayist, philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) lead Transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century and greatly influenced the later New Thought movement.