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Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©1988.
Language
English
Description
This collection contains all of Flannery O'Connor's novels and short story collections, as well as nine other stories, eight of her most important essays, and a selection of 259 letters, twenty-one published here for the first time.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 5
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gift for everyone.
Series
Library of America volume 115-116
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
©2000.
Language
English
Description
Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 110
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©1999.
Language
English
Description
Presents five novels by Dashiell Hamilton, all published between 1929 and 1934.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 128
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2001.
Language
English
Description
A single volume collection of the celebrated writer's novels includes the complete texts of five novels: The heart is a lonely hunter. -- Reflections in a golden eye. -- The ballad of the sad cafe. -- The member of the wedding. -- Clock without hands.
6) Plays
Author
Series
Library of America volume 119-120
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Contains selections of Williams' most influential works including "The Glass Menagerie," "A Streetcar Named Desire," and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
Author
Series
Library of America volume 134
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"Paul Bowles had already established himself as an important American composer when, at the age of 38, he published The Sheltering Sky and became widely recognized as one of the most powerful writers of the postwar period. By the time of his death in 1999 he had become a unique and legendary figure in modern literary culture. From his base in Tangier he produced novels, stories, and travel writings in which exquisite surfaces and violent undercurrents...
Series
Library of America volume 95
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©1997.
Language
English
Description
This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1930s and 40s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied and innovative body of writing. Tapping deep roots in the American literary imagination, the novels in this volume explore themes of crime, guilt,...
Series
Library of America volume 94
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©1997.
Language
English
Description
"This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1950s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied and innovative body of writing. Tapping deep roots in the American literary imagination, the novels in this volume explore themes of crime, guilt, deception,...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 133
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"In Arrowsmith, Lewis portrays the medical education and career of a physician whose idealistic commitment is tested by the greed and opportunism he encounters at all levels of his profession. Elmer Gantry dramatizes the growing tension between secularism and fundamentalism in 1920s America through the portrait of a glib and self-serving preacher relentlessly pursuing worldly pleasure and power. Dodsworth depicts the unraveling marriage of an American...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 125
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In the stories and novellas he wrote for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett took the detective story and turned it into a medium for capturing the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern American life. In this volume, The Library of America collects the finest of these stories: 24 in all, along with some revealing essays and an earlier version of his novel The Thin Man. Mixing melodramatic panache...
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Series
Library of America volume 76
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Emphasizing Paine's American career, this volume brings together his best-known works - Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason - along with scores of letters, articles, and pamphlets. Paine came to America in 1774 at age 37 after a life of obscurity and failure in England. Within 14 months he published Common Sense, the most influential pamphlet of the American Revolution, and began a career that would see him prosecuted...
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Series
Library of America volume 107
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
©1999.
Language
English
Description
Complete Stories 1884-1891 features among its seventeen stories some of James' greatest masterpieces, among them "The Aspern Papers", a stunning novella about emotional ruthlessness in the service of literary scholarship, "The Lesson of the Master", an intricate study of ambition, disappointment, and the demands of a life devoted to art; "Brooksmith", a moving portrait of a house servant; and the enthralling ghost story "Sir Edmund Orme."
Series
Library of America volume 333
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate...
15) Collected essays
Author
Series
Library of America volume 98
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
This book offers a comprehensive gathering of Baldwin's nonfiction works that articulate issues of race, democracy, and American identity. His landmark collections Notes of a Native Son and Nobody Knows My Name fuse the personal, literary, and the political. The classic The Fire Next Time provides an analysis of America's racial divide and No Name in The Street and The Devil Finds Work chart his continuing response to the social and political turbulence...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 93
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©1997.
Language
English
Description
A collection of six works by Nathanael West.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 106
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
©1999.
Language
English
Description
Collection of short stories by the author of Daisy Miller and The turn of the screw.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 144
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Poetic visionary Ezra Pound catalyzed American literature's modernist revolution. From the swirling center of poetic change he excited the powerful energies of Eliot, Joyce, and William Carlos Williams and championed the Imagism and Vorticism movements. This volume, the most comprehensive collection of his poetry and translations ever assembled, gathers all his verse except The Cantos. In addition to the famous poems that transformed...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 42
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the United States and Canada by the Viking Press
Pub. Date
©1988
Language
English
Description
Contains eight plays written by O'Neill between 1932 and 1943.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 216
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Capturing Vonnegut in mid-career, this first of a three-volume edition gathers four of his most acclaimed novels. Cat's Cradle (1963) is a comedy of the end of the world (it ends with ice). God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) is the tale of a so-called fool, his money, and the lawyer who contrives to part them (it ends with fire). Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Vonnegut's breakout book and one of the iconic masterpieces of twentieth-century American...
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