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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AMERICAN LITERATURE

The Autobiography of Ashley Bowen (1728-1813)
The Female American, Second Edition (1767) Unca Eliza Winkfield
Common Sense (1776) Thomas Paine
Rights of Man (1791) Thomas Paine
The Age of Reason (1794) Thomas Paine
Emma Corbett (1781) Samuel Jackson Pratt
Letters from an American Farmer: Selections (1782) Hector St. John De Crèvecoeur (BAAL Edition)
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)
Slaves in Algiers (1794) Susanna Rowson (BAAL Edition)
Reuben and Rachel (1798) Susanna Haswell Rowson
The Coquette and The Boarding School (1797-98) Hannah Webster Foster
Edgar Huntly (1799) Charles Brockden Brown
Ormond (1799) Charles Brockden Brown
Lydia Huntley Sigourney: Selected Poetry and Prose (19th century)
Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (19th century)
Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales (19th century)
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838) Edgar Allan Poe
Washington Irving: Selected Writings (1809-1819) (BAAL Edition)
Secret History and Laura (1808-09) Leonora Sansay
Kelroy (1812) Rebecca Rush
A Narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (1824) James E. Seaver (BAAL Edition)
The Last of the Mohicans (1826) James Fenimore Cooper
Clarence (1830) Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832) Frances Trollope
The Western Captive and Other Indian Stories (1842) Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)
Frederick Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches (1845-81) (BAAL Edition)
Civil Disobedience (1848) Henry David Thoreau
Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems and Letters (1850s-1880s) (BAAL Edition)
The Scarlet Letter, Second Edition (1850) Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Blithedale Romance (1852) Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby-Dick: Selections (1851) Herman Melville (BAAL Edition)
Benito Cereno (1855) Herman Melville
The Piazza Tales (1856) Herman Melville
Fanny Fern: Selected Writings (1852-68) (BAAL Edition)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Selections(1852) Harriet Beecher Stowe (BAAL Edition)
Clotel (1853) William Wells Brown
Martin R. Delany: Selected Writings(1854-62) (BAAL Edition)
A Plea for Emigration (1854) Mary Shadd (BABL Edition)
Ida May (1854) Mary Hayden Green Pike
Walt Whitman: Selected Poetry and Prose (1855-1892) (BAAL Edition)
The Garies and Their Friends (1857) Frank J. Webb
The Octoroon (1859) Dion Boucicault (BABL Edition)
Infelicia and Other Writings (1860s) Adah Isaacs Menken
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) Harriet Jacobs
Ragged Dick and Risen from the Ranks (1868, 1874) Horatio Alger Jr.
Little Women (1868) Louisa May Alcott
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) Mark Twain
Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins (1894) Mark Twain
Daisy Miller (1878) Henry James
The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (1898) Henry James
Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings (1880s)
Ramona (1884) Helen Hunt Jackson
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888) Edward Bellamy
A Marriage Below Zero (1889) Alan Dale
An Imperative Duty (1891) W.D. Howells
Iola Leroy (1892) Frances Harper
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage (1895) Stephen Crane
The Cliff-Dwellers (1893) Henry B. Fuller
Bertram Cope’s Year (1919) Henry B. Fuller
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) Sarah Orne Jewett
Soldiers of Fortune (1897) Richard Harding Davis
Women and Economics (1898) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Herland and Related Writings (1915) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Awakening and Other Writings (1899) Kate Chopin
Hagar’s Daughter (1901-02) Pauline Hopkins
Of One Blood (1902-03) Pauline Hopkins
The Call of the Wild (1903) Jack London
The House of Mirth (1905) Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome (1911) Edith Wharton
The Custom of the Country (1913) Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence (1920) Edith Wharton
Imre (1906) Edward Prime-Stevenson
The Melting-Pot (1908) Israel Zangwill
Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912) Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton)
Vandover and the Brute (1914) Frank Norris
The Waste Land and Other Poems (1917) T.S. Eliot (BABL Edition, Canada and US Only)
My Ántonia (1918) Willa Cather
Black Oxen (1923) Gertrude Atherton
The Pedro Gorino(1929) Harry Foster Dean (with Sterling North)
Lynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays (1930s)

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
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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.