The American Classics Collection - Volume One: 15+ Novels, and Stories from HP Lovecraft, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Frederick Douglass, & More: A Farewell to Arms, At the Mountains of Madness, Little Women, The Adventures of Hucklebe...

by Louisa May Alcott

The American Classics Collection is a century-spanning collection of 17 classic novels, short stories, essay, and poetry by American authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Kobna Holdbrook-Smith; Nathan Osgood; Robert G. Slade; Jonathan Keeble, and more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Ernest Hemingway; Mark Twain; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Edith Wharton; Frederick Douglass; and H.P. Lovecraft, amongst a host of others. The titles included in this collection, in chronological order,


A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P, Lovecraft Emily Dickinson Poems
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass
The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Shadow Over Innsmouth, by H.P. Lovecraft
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau The full cast Kobna Holdbrook-Smith; Nathan Osgood; Robert G. Slade; Jonathan Keeble; Katherine Fenton; Peter Noble; and William Hope.

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Published January 1, 2025

About the author

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used pen names such as A.M. Barnard, under which she wrote lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults that focused on passion and revenge.
Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt. The novel was well-received at the time and is still popular today among both children and adults. It has been adapted for stage plays, films, and television many times.
Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She also spent her life active in reform movements such as temperance and women's suffrage. She died from a stroke in Boston on March 6, 1888, just two days after her father's death.