Experience the beginning of American literature with these classic stories from authors such as James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe. Early American Classics includes: The Scarlet Letter, The Last of the Mohicans, "Rip Van Winkle," "Young Goodman Brown," "Bartleby the Scrivener," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Fall of the House of Usher."

Five great works about sin, redemption, and human passion by a masterful nineteenth-century American novelist. Including both novels and short story collections, this volume showcases the brilliance of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Mosses from an Old Manse: A collection of Hawthorne's short stories, praised by Herman Melville as "his masterpiece." Twice-Told Tales: Short fiction that "comes from the hand of a man of genius" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). The...