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Published in 1827, Chronicles of the Canongate marks Sir Walter Scott's first foray into shorter fiction. This collection of three stories--"The Highland Widow," "The Two Drovers," and "The Surgeon's Daughter"--delves into the dramatic lives of Scottish characters finding adventure away from home in the late eighteenth century.

Every character in Spoon River Anthology is dead.  And the dead speak.  In Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology the speakers lie together in a hillside graveyard in a small, rural community in central Illinois.  As they moulder in their earthen tombs, they spill forth their secrets to the...

This 1916 gathering of verse follows Masters’s landmark volume, Spoon River Anthology. Poems include “Fort Dearborn,” “Captain John Whistler,” “Lincoln and Douglas Debates,” “The Typical American?”, “Come, Republic,” “Achilles Deatheridge,” “To a Spirochaeta,” “My Dog...

Named after the author’s best friend from childhood, Masters’s first (1920) novel is a charming tale of two boys growing up in the Mississippi River Valley in 1900. Mitch sets out to relive Tom Sawyer in what one critic called the best boy’s story of the generation.

This 1919 collection of more than 40 poems includes “Creation,” “Tyrannosaurus: or Burning Letters,” “Lord Byron to Doctor Polidori,” “A Woman of Forty,” “William Shakespeare,” “By the Waters of Babylon,” “The Christian Statesman,” “Winged Victory,” “Oh You Sabbatarians!”, “Pallas Athene,” “Chicago,” and “Inexorable Deities.”

The poems in this evocative collection are written in the same vein as Masters’s tour de force, Spoon River Anthology. In free verse, Masters gives voice to a gathering of historical figures and fictitious characters who tell their stories—both the poignant and the sordid—from places as diverse...

This 1916 memoir recounts the author's experiences as a soldier in the British army.  Posing as a Canadian, Hall enlisted at the outbreak of World War I, ultimately serving as a machine gunner at the Battle of Loos in 1915, before his true identity was exposed, leading to his discharge.

Translated literally as “book of love,” Liber Amoris is William Hazlitt’s fictional account of his affair with the daughter of an innkeeper. In it, he also explores the darker elements of his personality. An important example of Romantic short fiction, this autobiographical novel was reviled upon publication due to its unsavory subject matter.

The haunting poems of Edgar Allan Poe come to life in this comprehensive volume. Collected here are such American classics as "The Rave," "Annabel Lee," and "The Bells." Touching on death, passion, and loneliness, Poe speaks out to us with lyrical beauty from across the ages.

Accompanied by a brief biographical sketch, this study of Poe’s verse makes the case “that in his poetry Poe is revealed completely.” The book also includes many of Poe’s poems, including “To Helen,” “The City in the Sea,” “Annabel Lee,” and “The Raven.” A riveting study by a dedicated Poe enthusiast.

Published in 1921, this novel may be considered the first in the Poictesme series, for it is here that Cabell introduces his great hero, or anti-hero, Manuel the Redeemer. A rogue who begins in the mud but through sharp dealings rises to become the wealthy and illustrious Count of Poictesme, Manuel’s journey makes him a legend.

W. H. Hudson grew up on the pampas of Argentina, a region that remained close to his heart even after he moved to England. In Tales of the Pampas, Hudson draws upon his childhood memories to create these six magical short stories about the landscape, the gauchos, and the area that impressed him for the rest of his life.

This 1922 work uses the resources of both fiction and travel writing to channel the spirit of Don Quixote in its tale of two wanderers trekking on foot from Madrid to Toledo in the aftermath of World War I.  Chapters are interwoven with critical and biographical essays of notable Spanish writers of the time.  

This 1915 masterpiece of nature writing was based on Muir's personal experiences on long expeditions into the Alaskan wilderness beginning in 1879.  For Muir, encounters with nature were sacred, and his prose combines the meticulous observation of a scientist with the spiritual insights of a holy man—one who worshipped at the altar of the natural world.