John Seelye

John Seelye is a graduate research professor of American literature at the University of Florida. He is the author of The True Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain at the MoviesProphetic Waters: The River in Early American LiteratureBeautiful Machine: Rivers and the Early RepublicMemory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock, and War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism. He is also the consulting editor for Penguin Classics in American literature.

Author Contributions

The Call of the Wild and White Fang Treasure Island

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson; Edited with an Introduction by John Seelye; Cover illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Kidnapped

Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Two Years Before the Mast

Two Years Before the Mast

Richard Henry Dana
Life on the Mississippi The Swiss Family Robinson

The Swiss Family Robinson

Johann D. Wyss
A Princess of Mars

A Princess of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs; Introduction and Notes by John Seelye
Captains Courageous

Captains Courageous

Rudyard Kipling
On to the Alamo

On to the Alamo

Richard Penn Smith
The Red Pony

The Red Pony

John Steinbeck
The Complete Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

The Complete Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe; Introduction by John Seelye
The Virginian

The Virginian

Owen Wister