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Library of America ; 323
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English
Description
"'You are a story--I am a story.' Introduce to your family or rediscover for yourself three classic children's novels by Frances Hodgson Burnett, an English-born writer who moved to America at age 15 and who now joins the Library of America. This authoritative edition restores the novels to their original American texts, as Burnett wrote them and features over 40 painstakingly restored illustrations--16 in full color--plus a ribbon marker, helpful...
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Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
This is the most comprehensive volume of Walt Whitman (1819-1892) ever published. It includes all of his poetry and what he considered his complete prose. This is also the only collection that includes, in exactly the form in which it appeared in 1855, the first edition of Leaves of Grass. This was the book, a commercial failure, that prompted Emerson's famous message to Whitman: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career". These twelve poems,...
24) Novels & stories
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Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
This Library of America volume of Jack London's best-known work is filled with thrilling action, an intuitive feeling for animal life, and a sense of justice that often works itself out through violence. London enjoyed phenomenal popularity in his own time (which included the depressions of the 1890s and the beginnings of World War One), and he remains one of the most widely read of all American writers.
The Call of the Wild (1903), perhaps the best...
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Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States, Inc
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
A foregone conclusion relates the love story of Florida Vervain, a young girl sojourning in Venice with her mother, an amiable, weak-headed woman, of the type so frequently drawn by the author. The daughter is beloved by the United States consul, a Mr. Ferris, and by Don Ippopolito, a priest. The latter is a strongly drawn, interesting study. He is a man whom circumstances rather than inclination led into the priesthood. From the hour of his ordination...
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Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
Typee is a fast-moving adventure tale, an autobiographical account of the author's Polynesian stay, an examination of the nature of good and evil, and a frank exploration of sensuality and exotic ritual.
Omoo is a sequel to Melville's first South Sea narrative Typee, also based on the author's experiences in the South Pacific.
Mardi: Beginning as a travelogue in the vein of the author's two previous efforts, the adventure story gives way to a romance...
Author
Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the U.S
Pub. Date
[1983]
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.
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Library of America ; 16
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
A writer of great urbanity and poise, Washington Irving was America's first internationally acclaimed man of letters. Here in one volume are the writings that established his reputation and earned him the admiration of Hawthorne, Poe, Coleridge, Byron, Scott, and Dickens. Written in the character of an elderly gentleman of the old school, "Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent." is a series of comic reports on the theater, theater-goers, fashions, balls,...
33) Novels
Author
Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
Here in one volume are all five of Nathaniel Hawthorne's world-famous novels. "The House of the Seven Gables" moves across 150 years from an ancestral crime condoned by the Puritan theocracy to a new beginning in the bustling and democratic Jacksonian era. Hawthorne's masterpiece, "The Scarlet Letter," is a dramatic allegory of the social consequences of adultery and the subversive force of personal desire in a community of laws. "The Blithedale Romance"...
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Library of America ; 13
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
Five novels dramatize the interaction of Americans with more sophisticated Europeans.
Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1983]
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.
36) Redburn, his first voyage: White-jacket, or the world in a man-of-war ; Moby-Dick, or, the whale
Author
Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States, Inc
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
Redburn is the story that relates a young man's initiation into the sailors life; White-Jacket is the story that is a semi-autobiographical account of experiences in the U.S. Navy; Moby-Dick, or the whale is the most famous of Melville's works, and tells the story of Ahab, a ship captain that has become obsessed with the hunt for the whale he has named Moby-Dick.
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Series
Library of America ; 20
Publisher
Literary Classics of the U.S
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
This collection of Poe's writings includes his thoughts on poetry; reviews he wrote on many other authors, British, American, and Continental; his views of the literary world he moved in; essays, etc. A valuable tool for anyone studying Poe and his work.
Author
Series
Library of America ; 21
Publisher
Literary Classics of the U.S
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
Contains "The innocents abroad, a travel guide and stinging satire of his fellow American travelers, and "Roughing it, the old Western frontier adventures of Mark Twain.
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