 The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
Amid the nightmarish chaos of a Civil War battle, a young soldier discovers courage, humility, and, perhaps, wisdom. Uncanny re-creation of actual combat. Enduring landmark of American fiction.
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| |  The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
A classic novel of adventure, drawn from London's own experiences as a Klondike adventurer, relating the story of a heroic dog caught in the brutal life of the Alaska Gold Rush. Note.
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 White Fang
by Jack London
A classic adventure novel centering on a ferocious and magnificent creature, half dog, half wolf, through whose experiences we feel the essential savagery of wilderness life among animals and men.
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| |  Five Great Short Stories
by Jack London
Five exciting tales that epitomize Jack London's mastery of the adventure story: "The White Silence," "In a Far Country," "An Odyssey of the North," "The Seed of McCoy," and "The Mexican." Publisher's Note.
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 The Open Boat and Other Stories
by Stephen Crane
Four prized selections, "The Open Boat," based on a harrowing incident in the author's life; "The Blue Hotel," "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," and the novella Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.
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| |  Three Lives
by Gertrude Stein
Clear, carefully crafted stories of 3 women, whose relatively ordinary lives and minds Stein invests with extraordinary interest. Excellent entree to author's later work.
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 My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
Splendid early novel (1918) evokes the Nebraska prairie life of the author's childhood, and touchingly commemorates the spirit and courage of the immigrant pioneers who settled the land.
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| |  A Daughter of the Middle Border
by Hamlin Garland
Pulitzer Prize-winning sequel to A Son of the Middle Border continues the author's autobiographical theme and deals sensitively with Garland's marriage and later career, as well as the challenges of pioneer life in 19th-century mid-America.
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 The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
Classic frontier adventure movingly recounts the relationship between a courageous woodsman and his loyal Native American friends during the French and Indian War. The most popular of James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales."
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| |  One of Ours
by Willa Cather
The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel about a young Nebraskan looking for something to believe in. Alienated from his parents, rejected by his wife, he finds his destiny on the bloody battlefields of World War I.
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 The Song of the Lark
by Willa Cather
The portrait of a formidable woman who defies the limitations set on women of her time and social station to become an international opera star.
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| |  Alexander's Bridge
by Willa Cather
Construction engineer Bartley Alexander is a troubled, middle-aged man torn between his cold American wife and an alluring mistress in London who has helped him recapture his youth and sense of freedom.
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 The Country of the Pointed Firs
by Sarah Orne Jewett
A classic of American fiction, memorializing the traditions, manners and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the 20th century, and presenting a warm, humorous and compassionate vision of New England character.
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