The Broadview American Bookshelf

Broadview’s editions have been warmly welcomed into countless classrooms since the inaugural volumes were published in 1994. They are valued among experts, students, and collectors alike for their reliability, helpful annotations, accessible introductions, and enlightening appendices. The Broadview American Bookshelf is one of a collection of available Bookshelves.

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*Contents subject to change, and availability of some titles varies by region. Final list of contents will be available by Fall 2024. Additional volumes may be added in future.

Ashley Bowen, The Autobiography of Ashley Bowen (1728-1813)
Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Hannah Webster Foster, The Coquette and The Boarding School
Samuel Jackson Pratt, Emma Corbett
J. Hector St. John De Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer: Selections
Charlotte Smith, Desmond
Susanna Rowson, Slaves in Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom
Susanna Rowson, Reuben and Rachel
Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly
Leonora Sansay, Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura
Washington Irving, Washington Irving: Selected Writings
Rebecca Rush, Kelroy
Lydia Sigourney, Lydia Sigourney
Charles Brockden Brown, Ormond
James E. Seaver, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Clarence
Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Elizabeth Oakes Smith, The Western Captive and Other Indian Stories
Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter – Second Edition
Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems and Letters
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, the Whale: Selections
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance
Fanny Fern, Fanny Fern: Selected Writings
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Selections
William Wells Brown, Clotel
Mary Hayden Green Pike, Ida May
Martin R. Delany, Martin R. Delany: Selected Writings
Herman Melville, Benito Cereno
Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman: Selected Poetry and Prose
Herman Melville, The Piazza Tales
Frank J. Webb, The Garies and Their Friends
Emma Lazarus, Emma Lazarus
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Adah Isaacs Menken, Infelicia and Other Writings
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Horatio Alger Jr., Ragged Dick and Risen from the Ranks
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Henry James, Daisy Miller
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000 – 1887
Alan Dale, A Marriage Below Zero
W.D. Howells, An Imperative Duty
Frances E. W. Harper, Iola Leroy
Henry Fuller, The Cliff-Dwellers
Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs
Richard Harding Davis, Soldiers of Fortune
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics and Other Writings
Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Other Writings
L. Frank Baum, Wizard of Oz
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Hagar’s Daughter
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Of One Blood
Jack London, The Call of the Wild
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
Edward Prime-Stevenson, Imre
Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton), Mrs. Spring Fragrance
Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country
Frank Norris, Vandover and the Brute
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland and Related Writings
Willa Cather, My Ántonia
Henry Blake Fuller, Bertram Cope’s Year
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Gertrude Atherton, Black Oxen
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Harry Foster Dean, The Pedro Gorino

The Broadview American Bookshelf is now available for purchase worldwide! You can purchase access here. Those outside of North America can purchase access by selecting your country on the Vital Source website.

Students, researchers, and readers of all kinds may purchase according to their needs:

• 4-month subscription $25
• 1-year subscription $40
• 4-year subscription $75

Purchasing a subscription will grant immediate access to more than 80 historical editions. Purchasing a subscription will grant immediate access to all included editions. If new editions are added, they will be made available to both new and existing subscribers.

If you are an instructor and would like to consider adopting the Broadview American Bookshelf for a future course, you can request a sample using the form below. Should you assign a Bookshelf, you will receive complete complimentary access to the collection for the duration of your course (simply contact your Broadview representative or reps@broadviewpress.com or to arrange this).

Instructors wishing to adopt this collection for classroom use can submit the following ISBN to their bookstore: SUB-3560975661

The Broadview American Bookshelf is particularly well-suited to classroom use. Whether you organize your course by chronology, author, theme, or genre, the Bookshelf offers unparallelled flexibility, with quick access to all included volumes.

Editions in the Bookshelf offer:

• Reliable primary texts, carefully edited by academic experts;
• Introductions designed for student readers;
• Footnote annotations to clarify unfamiliar terms and references;
• Appendices of related historical materials that shed light on the context of the work;
• Pagination that matches the print book;
• Industry-leading accessibility features such as scalable text, alt-text of images, and audio.

The Bookshelf can be ordered through any post-secondary bookstore in the United States or Canada, in the same manner as a typical textbook. Students can also purchase a subscription on their own through the links provided above.

Libraries and institutions can purchase access to the Bookshelves for student and faculty use at affordable rates.

For information about library or institutional purchases, please contact bookshelves@broadviewpress.com.