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John Muir: Nature Writings (Loa #92): The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Ess
by Muir, John    Cronon, William   
(Hardcover - English - 9781883011246)
Known as the Father of the National Parks, John Muir wrote about the American West with unmatched passion and eloquence--as seen in this stunning, one-volume collection In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir became America's most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness. A crucial figure in the creation of our national parks system and a far-seeing prophet of environmental awareness who founded the Sierra Club in 1892, he was also a master of natural description who evoked with unique power and intimacy the untrammeled landscapes of the American West. Nature Writings collects Muir's most si ..
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Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories: The Civil War to World War II (Loa #302): Nathan Coulter / Andy Catlett: Early Travels / A World Lost /
by Berry, Wendell    Shoemaker, Jack   
(Hardcover - English - 9781598535549)
Library of America inaugurates its edition of the complete fiction of one of America's most beloved living writers For more than fifty years, in eight novels and fortytwo short stories, Wendell Berry (b. 1934) has created an indelible portrait of rural America through the lens of Port William, Kentucky, one of the most fully imagined places in American literature. Taken together, these novels and stories form a masterwork of American prose: straightforward, spare, and lyrical. Now, for the first time, in an edition prepared in consultation with the author, Library of America is presenting the complete story of Port William in the order of narrative chronology. ..
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Novels, Stories & Poems (Loa #356)
by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins    Bendixen, Alfred   
(Hardcover - English - 9781598537192)
A definitive edition of the groundbreaking feminist fiction of a nineteenth century pioneer Library of America presents the fullest selection ever of visionary American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman: two novels, forty-four brilliant short stories, nearly two-hundred poems, and both the published and manuscript versions of the landmark story "The Yellow Wall-Paper." The short fiction presented here showcases Gilman's mastery of ghost stories, allegorical fantasy, and social realism and includes a virtuoso series of stories written in imitation of the most acclaimed authors of her day. The utopian novels Herland and With Her in Ourland --about br a remote an ..
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World War II Memoirs: The Pacific Theater (Loa #351): With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa / Flights of Passage / Crossing the Line
by Samet, Elizabeth D.    Sledge, E. B.    Hynes, Samuel
(Hardcover - English - 9781598537048)
In one volume, three unforgettable memoirs that capture the brutality, fear, and heroism of the American land, air, and sea war in the Pacific. br "Every generation is a secret society," former Marine pilot Samuel Hynes wrote. "The secret that my generation--the one that came of age during the Second World War--shared was simply the war itself." This volume brings together the powerful memoirs of three Americans who came of age fighting in the Pacific and who survived to tell their stories. Remarkable literary achievements that capture history with the immediacy of lived experience, all three--presented here in an illustrated collector's edition--are classi ..
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920-26 (Loa #353)
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott    West, James   
(Hardcover - English - 9781598537147)
Library of America's authoritative Fitzgerald edition continues with his greatest masterpiece and best story collection of stories in newly edited texts This long-awaited second volume of Library of America's authoritative edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald features the author's acknowledged masterpiece and most popular book, The Great Gatsby . It was Gatsby that solidified his reputation as the chronicler of the Jazz Age and established him as one of the leading American novelists of his generation. Perhaps no other novel of the twentieth century makes a greater claim to being our Great American Novel--for its poetic prose, its exploration of the broad, intert ..
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Shirley Jackson: Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s (Loa #336): The Road Through the Wall / Hangsaman / The Bird's Nest / The Sundial
by Jackson, Shirley    Franklin, Ruth   
(Hardcover - English - 9781598536706)
From the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle , four classic novels of subtle psychological horror. Shirley Jackson--the beloved author of The Lottery , The Haunting of Hill House , and We Have Always Lived in the Castle --is more and more being recognized as one of the finest writers of the American gothic tradition, a true heir of Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James. Now, Jackson's award-winning biographer Ruth Franklin gathers the subtle, chilling, hypnotic novels with which she began her unique career. Her haunting debut tale The Road Through the Wall (1948) explores the secret desires, petty hatreds, and ultimate terro ..
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Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s: A Library of America Boxed Set
by Weinman, Sarah       
(Boxed Set - English - 9781598534511)
The Library of America and editor Sarah Weinman redefine the classic era of American crime fiction with a landmark collection of eight brilliant novels by the female pioneers of the genre, the women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline. br br Though women crime and suspense writers dominate today's best seller lists, the extraordinary creations of the mid-century female pioneers of the genre are largely unknown. Their work, influential in its day and still vibrant and extraordinarily riveting, is long overdue for rediscovery. Now The Library of America makes these classic books available in a deluxe two-volume collector's edit ..
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Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s (Loa #183): Martian Time-Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears, the Policeman
by Lethem, Jonathan       
(Hardcover - English - 9781598530254)
Jonathan Lethem, editor The most outr science fiction writer of the 20th century has finally entered the canon, exclaimed Wired Magazine upon The Library of America's May 2007 publication of Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s , edited by Jonathan Lethem. Now comes a companion volume collecting five novels that offer a breathtaking overview of the range of this science-fiction master. Philip K. Dick (1928-82) was a writer of incandescent imagination who made and unmade world-systems with ferocious rapidity and unbridled speculative daring. The floor joists of the universe, he once wrote, are visible in my novels. Martian Time-Slip (1964) unfolds on a ..
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Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s & 40s (Loa #94): The Postman Always Rings Twice / They Shoot Horses, Don't They? / Thieves Like Us / The Big
by Polito, Robert       
(Hardcover - English - 9781883011468)
"The most important collection of crime fiction ever published in the United States." -- Ed Gorman Evolving out of the terse and violent style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied, innovative and profoundly influential body of writing. The eleven novels in The Library of America's adventurous two-volume collection taps deep roots in the American literary imagination, exploring themes of crime, guilt, deception, obsessive passion, murder, and the disintegrating psyche. With visionary and often subversive force they create a dark and violent mythology out of the most commonplace elements of modern life. James M. Cain's pion ..
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Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Loa #147): A New Translation by Arthur Goldhammer
by Tocqueville, Alexis de       
(Hardcover - English - 9781931082549)
An exclusive new translation of the most perceptive and influential book ever written about American politics and society-- "the bible on democracy" (The Texas Observer ) This Library of America volume presents de Tocqueville's masterpiece in an entirely new translation-- the first to fully capture his style and provide a rigorous, faithful rendering of his profound ideas and observations Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocratic French lawyer, came to the United States in 1831 to study its penitentiary systems. His nine-month visit and subsequent reading and reflection resulted in this landmark masterpiece of political observation and analysis. In Democra ..
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Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s (Loa #217): Cane / Home to Harlem / Quicksand / Plum Bun / The Blacker the Berry
by Zafar, Rafia       
(Hardcover - English - 9781598530995)
HARLEM RENAISSANCE: Five Novels of the 1920s leads off with Jean Toomer's Cane (1923), a unique fusion of fiction, poetry, and drama rooted in Toomer's experiences as a teacher in Georgia. Toomer's masterpiece was followed within a few years by a cluster of novels exploring black experience and the dilemmas of black identity in a variety of modes and from different angles. Claude McKay's Home to Harlem (1928), whose freewheeling, impressionistic, bawdy kaleidoscope of Jazz Age nightlife made it a best seller, traces the picaresque adventures of Jake, a World Warveteran, within and beyond Harlem. Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928), the poignant, nuanced psycho ..
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Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises & Other Writings 1918-1926 (Loa #334): In Our Time (1924) / In Our Time (1925) / The Torrents of Spring / The Sun
by Hemingway, Ernest    Trogdon, Robert W.   
(Hardcover - English - 9781598536676)
Library of America launches its long-awaited Hemingway edition with a landmark collection of writings from his breakthrough years, in newly edited, authoritative texts. With a letter of introduction from Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway travelled to Paris in 1921. There, he ame into contact with Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, and other expatriate writers and artists integral to his rapid development as a writer. This volume brings together work from the extraordinary period of 1918 to 1926, in which Hemingway's famous prose style became fully formed. It includes his work for the Toronto Star and Hearst's International News ..
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The Sun Also Rises: The Library of America Corrected Text [Deckle Edge Paper]
by Hemingway, Ernest    Trogdon, Robert W.   
(Paperback - English - 9781598537154)
Library of America presents an authoritative new text of Hemingway's classic novel, correcting errors, restoring key changes made to Hemingway's original punctuation--including to the novel's famous last line--and reinstating references to real people removed for fear of libel With the publication of The Sun Also Rises in 1926, Ernest Hemingway confirmed his reputation as a leader of literary modernism and established himself as the preeminent voice of the Lost Generation. Drawn from the authoritative Library of America volume of Hemingway's early writings, this deluxe paperback presents a new, corrected text of The Sun Also Rises prepared by a leading He ..
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Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s (Loa #246): Against Interpretation / Styles of Radical Will / On Photography / Illness as Metaphor / Uncollect
by Sontag, Susan    Rieff, David   
(Hardcover - English - 9781598532555)
With the publication of her first book of criticism, Against Interpretation , in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. "What is important now," she wrote, "is to recover our senses . . . . In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." She would remain a catalyzing presence, whether writing about camp sensibility, the films of Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, her experiences as a traveler to Hanoi at the height of the Vietnam War, the aesthetics of science-fiction and pornography, or a range of modern thinkers from Simone Weil to E. M. Cioran. She opened dazzling new perspectives on any s ..
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Madeleine l'Engle: The Wrinkle in Time Quartet (Loa #309): A Wrinkle in Time / A Wind in the Door / A Swiftly Tilting Planet / Many Waters
by L'Engle, Madeleine    Marcus, Leonard S.   
(Hardcover - English - 9781598535785)
Rediscover an American classic with this special deluxe edition of the Newbery Award-winning children's series--starring the iconic time traveling heroine, Meg Murry This Library of America volume presents Madeleine L'Engle's iconic classic A Wrinkle in Time , one of the most beloved and influential novels for young readers ever written, in a newly-prepared authoritative text and, as a special feature, it includes never-before-seen deleted passages from the novel in an appendix. L'Engle's unforgettable heroine, Meg Murry, must confront her fears and self-doubt to rescue her scientist father, who has been experimenting with mysterious tesseracts capable of be ..
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Leaves of Grass: The Complete 1855 and 1891-92 Editions: A Library of America Paperback Classic
by Whitman, Walt    Hollander, John   
(Paperback - English - 9781598530971)
In 1855, a small volume appeared, self-published by a failed Brooklyn journalist and carpenter: twelve untitled poems and a preface announcing the author's aims. A commercial failure, this book was the first stage of a massive, lifelong enterprise. Six editions and thirty-seven years later, Leaves of Grass had been recognized as one of the central masterworks of world poetry. This Library of America Paperback Classic includes two complete texts: the 1855 first edition and the magnificent culminating edition of 1891-1892. For almost thirty years, The Library of America has presented America's best and most significant writing in acclaimed hardcover editions. N ..
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O. Henry: 101 Stories (Loa #345)
by Henry, O.    Yagoda, Ben   
(Hardcover - English - 9781598536904)
The ultimate O. Henry: an annotated edition of classic tales by America's master storyteller Texas troubadour, convicted embezzler, and adopted New Yorker William Sidney Porter--better known as O. Henry--was one of the world's great storytellers. A master of cunning plots and a gifted humorist, he is best known today for his beloved tale "The Gift of the Magi." But O. Henry's palette of moods and methods was as expansive as his exuberant imagination. This Library of America volume offers a fresh look at the full range of his literary genius. Here are 101 stories, including such favorites as "The Ransom of Red Chief," "The Last of the Troubadours," and "The Co ..
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Ursula K. Le Guin: Annals of the Western Shore (Loa #335): Gifts / Voices / Powers
by Le Guin, Ursula K.    Attebery, Brian   
(Hardcover - English - 9781598536683)
Ursula K. Le Guin's Nebula Award-winning young adult fantasy series--gathered for the first time in a deluxe collector's edition for readers of all ages br br Teenagers struggle to come to terms with their own mysterious and magical gifts as they come-of-age in the far-flung Western Shore. This fifth volume in the definitive Library of America edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's work presents a trilogy of coming-of-age stories set in the Western Shore--a world where young people find themselves struggling not just against racism, prejudice, and slavery, but with how to live with the mysterious and magical gifts they have been given. All three novels feature ..
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Writings (Loa #34): The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays
by Du Bois, W. E. B.    Huggins, Nathan   
(Hardcover - English - 9780940450332)
Historian, sociologist, novelist, editor, and political activist, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was the most gifted and influential black intellectual of his time. This Library of America volume presents his essential writings, covering the full span of a restless life dedicated to the struggle for racial justice. The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States 1638-1870 (1896), his first book, renders a dispassionate account of how, despite ethical and political opposition, Americans tolerated the traffic in human beings until a bloody civil war taught them the disastrous consequences of moral cowardice. The Souls of Black Folk (1903), a ..
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The Collected Plays of Tennessee Williams: A Library of America Boxed Set
by Williams, Tennessee       
(Boxed Set - English - 9781598531046)
In celebration of the Tennessee Williams centennial in 2011, The Library of America presents its acclaimed two-volume edition of his plays in a collector's boxed set. Gathering thirty-two works written from the 1930s to the 1980s, this collection contains all the essential dramatic works of the playwright who transformed the American stage. The first volume opens with the rediscovered early plays, Spring Storm and Not About Nightingales , and contains such classics as The Glass Menagerie , A Streetcar Named Desire , The Rose Tattoo , and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , as well as a selection of one acts. The second volume includes Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Sum ..
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