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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...