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Library of America volume 284
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 301
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 290
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A charmed life: Martha Sinnott returns with her second husband to the New England artists' colony she left behind seven years earlier when she divorced her first husband. The town folk have remained much the same, including Martha's former husband, who has relocated nearby.
Seventy-five years ago Mary McCarthy provoked a scandal with her electrifying debut novel, The Company She Keeps (1942), announcing the arrival of a major new voice in American...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 300
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Series
Library of America volume 289
Publisher
The Library Of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 306
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This volume contains thirty-six essays published by Norman Mailer from November 1960 to September 1969, along with the preface to his 1963 collection The Presidential Papers and two prefaces he wrote for paperback editions of that book" (Note; page 471).
Author
Series
Library of America volume 305
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
No writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, for the first time in one volume, are his unforgettable books of the 1960s: two disruptive and visionary novels, and two radically innovative journalistic masterpieces. War hero, television star, existential hipster,...
Series
Library of America volume 303
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The defeat of the Confederacy and the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 brought about the final destruction of slavery in the United States. Americans were confronted for the first time with the possibility of creating a republic dedicated to the principle of racial equality. What followed over the next twelve years was one of the most complex, inspiring, and ultimately tragic eras in American history. Reconstruction: Voices From America's...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 307
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
90) Westerns
Author
Series
Library of America volume 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 volume 324
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Jean Stafford (1915-1979) made a bold entrance onto the American literary scene in 1944 when her first novel, Boston Adventure became a surprise best seller. She followed up this initial success with two more acclaimed novels, The Mountain Lion (1944) and The Catherine Wheel (1952), and became a prolific writer of short stories for The New Yorker and other prominent magazines. Boston Adventure follows Sonia Marburg, the daughter of immigrant parents,...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 318
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Library of America presents two of the best books ever written about World War II in a deluxe collector's edition featuring 88 pages of photographs, full-color endpaper maps, rare archival material revealing how the books were written, and a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Rick Atkinson (The Liberation Trilogy). The Longest Day tells the story of the Allies' greatest success, the Normandy invasions of June 6, 1944,...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 316
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 317
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Series
Library of America volume 333
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
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...
Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After the extraordinary success of the Earthsea novels, Ursula K. Le Guin returned in late career to the young adult fantasy genre with a trilogy of coming-of-age novels set in the far-flung Western Shore. These tales of teenagers struggling to come to terms with their own mysterious and magical gifts showcase the imaginative generosity and abiding human concerns that mark Le Guin's work, and together they form an elegant anthem to the transformative...
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Series
Library of America volume 338
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 336
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Franklin has gathered four of Jackson's novels, with which she began her irreplaceable, all too-brief career. Originally published between 1948 and 1958, they are published here without change except for the correction of typographical errors. Within these stories Jackson explores the recessed concealed within the prosperous world of the postwar 1940s and 50s-- and withing our own unacknowledged selves. -- adapted from front flap and Note on the Texts,...
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Series
Library of America volume 334
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
: Edited by a Hemingway scholar, this landmark collection offers an unparalleled look at Hemingway's breakthrough years and at the extraordinary international modernist moment of which he was a crucial part.
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