Library of America
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John Updike novels 1959-1965 , Library of America volume 311
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John Updike novels 1968-1975 , Library of America volume 326
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Library of America volume 333
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The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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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...
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John Updike novels 1978-1984 , Library of America volume 339
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Jean Stafford: complete stories & other writings , Library of America volume 342
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Library of America volume 350
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War's aftermath and the legacy of racism in America. Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois's now classic Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction--and of American democracy itself. One of the towering African American thinkers and activists of the twentieth century, Du Bois brought all his intellectual powers to bear on...
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Gary Snyder: collected poems , Library of America volume 357
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Frederick Douglass: speeches & writings , Library of America volume 358
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Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"For the first time, here is the full, definitive story of the movement for voting rights in all its diversity and intersectionality, told through the voices of the women and men who lived it: the most recognizable figures in the campaign for women's suffrage, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, but also the black, Chinese, and American Indian women and men who were not only essential to the movement but expanded its directions and aims,...
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Donald Barthelme: collected stories
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Elizabeth Spencer novels & stories: The voice at the back door / The light in the Piazza / Knights and dragons / Selected stories
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Library of America
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"For the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's arrival, a landmark collection of firsthand accounts charting the history of the English newcomers and their fateful encounters with the region's native peoples. For centuries the story of the Pilgrims and the Mayflower has been told and retold -- the landing at Plymouth Rock and the first Thanksgiving, and the decades that followed, as the colonists struggled to build an enduring and righteous community...
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Ray Bradbury novels & story cycles: The Martian chronicles / Fahrenheit 451 / Dandelion wine / Something wicked this way comes
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S. J. Perelman: Writings
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Don Delillo: three novels of the 1980s
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings, 1920-26
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Library of America
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"In the 1970s, feminist authors created a new mode of science fiction in defiance of the "baboon patriarchy"--Ursula K. Le Guin's words--that had long dominated the genre, imagining futures that are still visionary. In this sequel to her groundbreaking 2018 anthology The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin, SF-expert Lisa Yaszek opens a time portal to the decade when women changed science...
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Oscar Hijuelos: the Mambo Kings and other novels
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Ray Bradbury: The illustrated man, the October country & other stories
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Rudolfo Anaya: three novels
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The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"For too long, African Americans have been left out of the story of the nation's founding, their voices absent from the memory and celebration of the creation of the American republic. Black Writers of the Founding Era--by far the richest and most expansive anthology of its kind ever assembled--restores these voices. The writings gathered here reveal the complexity and dynamism of African American life and culture in the period and show how the principles...