American Classics Children's Collection

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.

A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.

"I can't love you unless I give you up."- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence A timeless classic, and winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's brilliant reflection on love, sacrifice, and the enduring battle between personal freedom and societal expectation. Set in New York City in the late 19th century, Wharton shows the hypocrisy, snobbery, and pretense of the Gilded Age with its rigid social codes, at a time...

Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. But the first edition contained...

In 1757, the English and French are engaged in a savage, bloody war for control of the North American continent. Making tenuous, shifting alliances with various Indian tribes, the two European powers struggle to gain the upper hand on unfamiliar, forested battlegrounds.

Caught in the middle is Hawkeye, a white scout who was raised among the Indians. Not fully belonging to either world, he has retreated from society to live in the untamed

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"Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, Northup published...