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Library of America ; 327
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A landmark of literary recovery: the first major edition of an overlooked genius who in her lifetime was considered 19th-century America's greatest woman writer. In the eyes of her contemporaries, Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) ranked with George Eliot as one of the two greatest women writers of the English language. She wrote fiction of remarkable intellectual power that outsold those of her male contemporaries Henry James and William Dean...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 287
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America ; 298
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"For the first time, the complete stories of the master chronicler of tradition and transformation in the twentieth-century South. Born and raised in Tennessee, Peter Taylor was the great chronicler of the American Upper South, capturing its gossip and secrets, its divided loyalties and morally complicated legacies in tales of pure-distilled brilliance ..."--Publisher description.
"Born and raised in Tennessee, Peter Taylor was the great chronicler...
324) Westerns
Author
Series
Library of America ; 308
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"One of the great storytellers of our time, Elmore Leonard perfected his craft writing Westerns, a genre he loved. These tales--some adapted into such outstanding films as Hombre, Valdez Is Coming, and 3:10 to Yuma--are unexcelled for their wiry tautness, sharp characterizations, and jolts of unexpected humor. For sheer stripped-down narrative tension Leonard never did anything better, and the fresh twists he finds in resolving the genre's classic...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 313
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Already a frequent contributor of well-crafted stories to The New Yorker when he turned to the larger canvas of the novel, John O'Hara wrote with unusual acuity about the power of status and class in American life. His reputation as a novelist rests largely on four extraordinary books published from 1934 to 1940. These early novels, like those of his contemporaries Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, dramatize the longings and dashed hopes of...
Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Featuring some of America's greatest writers and poets, this landmark anthology is a one-of-a-kind field guide to the American literary imagination. Americans have always been fascinated by birds and from the beginning American writers have captured this keen interest in a variety of genres: poems, journals, memoirs, short stories, essays, and travel accounts. Here literature professor and avid birder Andrew Rubenfeld, in collaboration with acclaimed...
Series
Library of America ; 265
Publisher
Library Of America
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"From more than a thousand pamphlets published on both sides of the Atlantic during the period [of 1764-1776], acclaimed historian Gordon S. Wood has selected thrity-nine of the most influential and emblematic to reveal as never before how this momentous revolution unfolded. Here, in the first volume of a two-volume set, are nineteen works from the trans-Atlantic debate triggered by Parliament's imposition of new taxes and regulations designed to...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 304
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Albert Murray (1916-2013) was one of the most provocative and original American thinkers of the twentieth century, writing with equal grace and power as an essayist and novelist."--Page 4 of cover.
Train whistle guitar: His schoolteacher, the barber, older girls, and a train-hopping musician teach Scooter just about all he needs to know in Gasoline Point, Alabama, during the 1920s.
The spyglass tree: The growing up days of Scooter from boyhood...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 357
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Together for the first time, a complete, authoritative edition of the collected, published poems of the celebrated Beat poet describe his upbringing in the rural Pacific Northwest and reflect on his interest in Native American oral literatures and Zen Buddhism."--
332) Collected writings: Two serious ladies ; In the summer house ; Stories & other writings ; Letters
Author
Series
Library of America ; 288
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
One novel, one play, nine shorter works originally published from 1944-1966, twelve notebook excerpts, and 133 letters from 1935-1970.
Two serious ladies: A modernist cult-classic, mysterious, profound, anarchic, and funny, and only novel by avant-garde literary star and wife of legendary writer Paul Bowles. Christina Goering and Frieda Copperfield, both upper-class women, embark on separate quests of salvation, ultimately descending into debauchery--...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 355
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The largest and most comprehensive edition of our foremost Asian American writer: three classic books and additional writings, many rare, that together offer a vivid and searching portrait of immigrant experience and American dreams"--
334) Five novels
Author
Series
Library of America ; 384
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Presents five novels by n American children's books author, Virginia Hamilton."--
Author
Series
Library of America ; 291
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Three novels by Mary McCarthy, the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation, including her landmark classic The Group, as well as McCarthy's final two novels Birds of America, and Cannibals and Missionaries, plus McCarthy's 1979 essay "The Novels that Got Away," on her unfinished fiction.
The group: The lives and experiences of eight Vassar graduates during the thirty years following their graduation as they grapple with sex, sexism,...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 314
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The Street follows Lutie Johnson, a young, newly single mother, as she struggles to make a better life for her son, Bub. An intimate account of the aspirations and challenges of black, female, working-class life, much of it set on a single block in Harlem, the novel exposes structural inequalities in American society while telling a complex human story, as overpriced housing, lack of opportunity, sexual harassment, and racism conspire to limit Lutie's...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 283
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Presents a collection of never-before-published and newly translated writings by the legendary author and provides insight into his path to a wholly new style of storytelling."
Author
Series
Library of America ; 271
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Features four lesser-known works from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Jazz Age author of The Age of Innocence, including a social-class-mobility romance that is believed to have been the literary inspiration for The Great Gatsby." --
Author
Series
Library of America ; 307
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Silent spring, together with rare letters, speeches, and other writings that reveal the personal courage and passionate commitment of Rachel Carson.
Author
Series
Library of America ; 284
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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