The New England Masterworks Collection gathers ten works connected with New England life, literature, history, reform, and imagination.

Book 1: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott tells the beloved story of the March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy - as they grow up during the Civil War era, learning lessons of family, sacrifice, ambition, and love.

Book 2: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Alcott is a warm holiday tale of family, resourcefulness, and rural New England life.

Book 3: Walking by Henry David Thoreau celebrates wildness, freedom, and the moral value of wandering beyond settled society.

Book 4: Wild Apples by Thoreau reflects on nature, cultivation, and the untamed sweetness of the American landscape.

Book 5: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton is a bleak and powerful tale of thwarted love, duty, poverty, and tragedy in a New England village.

Book 6: The Haunted Mind by Nathaniel Hawthorne explores the strange borderland between sleep, conscience, imagination, and fear.

Book 7: Twice-Told Tales by Hawthorne gathers stories of Puritan memory, moral allegory, romance, and the uncanny.

Book 8: The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne draws on the world of reform communities and examines idealism, secrecy, love, and disillusion.

Book 9: The Coquette; Or, The History of Eliza Wharton by Hannah Webster Foster is an early American novel of courtship, reputation, social pressure, and female independence.

Book 10: The Great Awakening by Joseph Tracy recounts the eighteenth-century revival associated with Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, and New England religious life.

Together these works present New England as a place of family, faith, reform, nature, conscience, and literary power.