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Series
Library of America ; 24
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
©1984.
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.
42) Poetry and tales
Author
Series
Library of America ; 19
Publisher
Literary Classics of the U.S
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
Preface (Tamerlane and other poems 1827)--Letter to Mr.--(Poems-1831)-Preface (The Raven and other poems-1845) --O Tempora! O, Mores!--To Margaret--To Octavia--(etc.).
43) Prose and poetry
Author
Series
Library of America ; 18
Publisher
Literary Classics of the U.S
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
Crane's complete novels are accompanied by his poetry and, arranged by place and time, his short stories, sketches and newspaper articles.
44) Writings
Author
Series
Library of America ; 17
Publisher
Literary Classics of the U.S
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America ; 315
Language
English
Description
"A master builder of faraway, fantastic worlds, Ursula K. Le Guin, at mid-career, found in her native California the inspiration for what was to be her greatest literary construction: nothing less than an entire ethnography of a future society, the Kesh, living in a post-apocalyptic Napa Valley. This Library of America edition of her 1985 classic Always Coming Home, prepared in close consultation with the author, features new material added by Le...
47) Novels
Author
Series
Library of America ; 30
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America ; 29
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Washington Square: Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, it is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter and her brilliant, unemotional father.
The portrait of a lady: When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to determine...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 25
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Tells the stories of a mourning family remembering its past, a vicious gangster, a young pregnant woman searching for her child's father, and barnstorming pilots at an air show.
Author
Series
Library of America ; 28
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
"Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here in a single volume. Interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire. "Walden" is at once a personal...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 31-32
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America ; 33
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
In his brief career -- he died at 32 -- Frank Norris introduced fresh and sometimes shocking elements into American fiction. Inspired by the naturalistic "new novel" developed in France by Zola and Flaubert, he adapted it to American settings, adding his own taste for exciting action and a fascination with the emerging sciences of economics and psychology. Vandover and the brute, set in a vividly described San Francisco, captures with harsh realism...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 35
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
The first of three volumes presenting the writings of Willa Cather includes her early book of stories and first four novels. The troll garden: Cather's first short story collection, originally published in 1905, depicts characters who seek the realm of beauty and imagination, but are confronted by the vulgarity and brutality of American society. O pioneers!: In Nebraska at the end of the nineteenth century, Swedish immigrant Alexandra Bergson leads...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 36
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Includes "My brother Paul."
56) Writings
Author
Series
Library of America ; 37
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America ; 38
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America ; 39
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Contents: Wise Blood - A Good Man is Hard to Find - The Violent Bear It Away - Everything That Rises Must Converge - Stories and Occasional Prose - Letters.
59) Complete plays
Author
Series
Library of America ; 40-42
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America ; 44
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Contains three novels by nineteenth-century American author William Dean Howells in which he merges social commentary and comedy in his examination of the contrasts in life.
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