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Author
Series
Library of America volume 47
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1990.
Language
English
Description
The second Edith Wharton volume in The Library of America series contains five tales of Edith Wharton along with her autobiography and a previously unpublished autobiographical fragment.
22) Later works
Author
Series
Library of America volume 56
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1991.
Language
English
Description
Wright presents a compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself, a man who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 62 & 63
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
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24) Autobiographies
Author
Series
Library of America volume 68
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 70
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
Contains Emerson's published poems, plus a selection of his unpublished poems from journals and notebooks, and some of his translations of poetry from other languages, notably Dante's Vita nuova.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 71
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
Historical novels about Edward VI, King of England, King Arthur and Joan of Arc.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 72
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
John Steinbeck, from the very start of his career, evoked the landscape and people of central California with lyrical intensity and unflinching frankness. The Library of America presents for the first time in one volume Steinbecks early writings, which expressed his abiding concerns for community, social justice, and the elemental connection between nature and human society. In prose that blends the vernacular and the incantatory, the local...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 81
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 75
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 86
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
Steinbecks Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joadsdriven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 90
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
James Thurber was the unique, unpredictable wild card of American humorists, at once whimsical fantasist and deadpan chronicler of everyday absurdities. The comic persona he invented, a modern citydweller whose zaniest flights of free association are tinged with anxiety, is as hilarious now as when he first appeared in the pages of The New Yorkerand his troubled side is even more striking. Here, The Library of America presents the best and...
34) Nature writings
Author
Series
Library of America volume 92
Publisher
Literary Classics
Pub. Date
[1997].
Language
English
35) Collected essays
Author
Series
Library of America volume 98
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Offers a comprehensive gathering of Baldwin's nonfiction works that articulates issues of race, democracy, and American identity. His landmark collections, Notes of a native son and Nobody knows my name fuse the personal, literary, and the political. The classic, The fire next time, provides an analysis of America's racial divide and No name in the street and The Devil finds work chart is continuing response to the social and political turbulence...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 97
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual, James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the postwar era, and one of the greatest African-American writers of this century. A self-described "transatlantic commuter" who spent much of his life in France, Baldwin joined a cosmopolitan sophistication to a fierce engagement with social issues. Early Novels and Stories presents the novels and short stories that established...
Series
Library of America volume 108
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive anthology collects fifty-eight sermons from each period of American history, showing the development of this neglected literary form from Colonial times to powerful sermons of the Civil Rights Movement.
Series
Library of America volume 115-116
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 118
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
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