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Library of America volume 163
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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Library of America volume 164
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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Library of America volume 174
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 172
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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Library of America volume 187
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 186
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Author
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Library of America volume 183
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Author
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Library of America volume 188
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Library of America volume 46
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Abraham Lincoln's writings trace his opposition to slavery, share his appraisal of the presidential election, and document his leadership during the Civil War.
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Library of America volume 193
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The third and final volume of an overview of the author's work features novels written during his later years, including "A Maze of Death" and "The Divine Invasion," when the themes of religious revelation became predominant.
75) Collected poems
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Library of America volume 231
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Poetry was at the center of Jack Kerouac's sense of mission as a writer. This landmark edition brings together for the first time all Kerouac's major poetic works--Mexico City Blues, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, Book of Blues, Poems All Sizes, Old Angel Midnight, Book of Haikus--along with a rich assortment of his uncollected poems, six published here for the first time. He wrote poetry in every period of his life, in forms as diverse as...
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Library of America volume 226
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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Library of America volume 238
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A Sand County almanac is often hailed as a foundational work of the modern environmental movement. Here, it is paired with over fifty other pieces by Leopold: uncollected articles, essays, speeches, and other writings that chart the evolution of his ideas over the course of three decades.
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Library of America volume 255
Publisher
Library Of America
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
Fifty-two pickup: An adulterous businessman runs afoul of a crew of blackmailers ; Swag: A small-time ex-con and an ambitious car salesman pursue the good life thorough a string of armed robberies ; Unknown man no. 89: Detroit process server Jack Ryan has a reputation for being the best in the business at finding people who don't want to be found ; The switch: A discontented housewife held for ransom turns the tables on her kidnappers and her scheming...
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Library of America volume 252
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Slapstick (1976) takes the form of the post-apocalyptic memoirs of Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain, architect of a brilliant scheme to rid mankind of loneliness. Jailbird (1979) is a political fable of our time, the biography of a good man who becomes embroiled in several of the worst political scandals of the American Century. Deadeye Dick (1982) depicts a talentless playwright's struggle to atone for the crimes of his youth, and the sins of his country....
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Library of America volume 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. --Publisher.
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