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In the Catskills gathers eight of John Burroughs's finest nature essays, first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1910 with photographic illustrations by Clifton Johnson. Burroughs — nicknamed "John o' Birds" for his devotion to birdlife and often credited with creating the modern nature essay...

When two young British officers are captured behind American lines, quick-thinking young soldier Bob Chester and his comrade Lieutenant Marcel seize a bold opportunity: slipping into the captives' scarlet uniforms and walking straight into the heart of the enemy camp. What starts as a daring...

On the windswept cattle ranges of Montana, rancher Jeffrey Masters is a man of iron discipline — cool-headed, ambitious, and utterly unlike the reckless brother he hasn't seen in years. When a letter arrives bearing the name of his estranged twin, Ronald, old wounds tear open just as Jeff and...

Books and Culture (1896) is a collection of reflective essays by American critic and editor Hamilton Wright Mabie, exploring why great literature endures and how reading shapes the inner life of the reader. Rather than treating books as sources of information, Mabie presents them as companions...

In the years after the American Revolution, a caravan of pioneer families crosses the mountains into the unbroken wilderness the Native peoples call Kain-tuck-ee. Among them is fifteen-year-old Henry Ware, whose fascination with the forest sets him apart from the rest of the settlers. Guided by...

From Albert Payson Terhune — famed novelist, journalist, and breeder of collies at his real-life Sunnybank Kennels — comes this treasured collection of eight dog stories. The title tale follows Buff, an unusual crossbreed collie born on Shawemere Farm, as he grows from an unpromising puppy...

A masterpiece of psychological realism, secret romance, and social ambition set against the sparkling backdrop of Monte Carlo. In A Tragic Idyl (Une idylle tragique), acclaimed French author and Académie française member Paul Bourget weaves a compelling tale of passion, betrayal, and...

Set against the background of the Mexican-American War, Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef is a classic maritime adventure of secrecy, treason, and survival in perilous waters. When Captain Stephen Spike sets sail aboard the brigantine Molly Swash, he carries a illicit cargo, a tangled Web of...

In the fictional village of Fairbridge, New Jersey, everyone knows everyone — and judges them just as thoroughly. The Butterfly House (1912) is a razor-sharp social comedy from Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, one of the most celebrated American Realist writers of the late nineteenth and early...

When Henry Smix lets a runaway automobile loose on the streets of Bingville, it is only the first in a long series of collisions between the old ways and the new. As wages climb and money floods into this sleepy New England village, its citizens discover a troubling truth: prosperity alone...