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Library of America volume 3
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
c1982
Language
English
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Series
Library of America volume 5
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1982
Language
English
Description
A stirring account of America's vanished past. The book that earned Mark Twain his first recognition as a serious writer. Discover the magic of life on the Mississippi. At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Mark Twain's early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, Life on the Mississippi is the raw material from which Twain wrote his finest novel: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ....
Author
Series
Library of America volume 6
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
This Library of America volume of Jack London's best-known work is filled with thrilling action, an intuitive feeling for animal life, and a sense of justice that often works itself out through violence. London enjoyed phenomenal popularity in his own time (which included the depressions of the 1890s and the beginnings of World War One), and he remains one of the most widely read of all American writers. The Call of the Wild (1903), perhaps the best...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
c1982
Language
English
Description
The stories are arranged, as they never have been in any other edition, in the order of their periodical publication. Readers of Hawthorne will thereby get a unique sense of how he became one of the most powerful and experimental writers of American fiction.
10) Prose and poetry
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Series
Library of America volume 18
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
This Library of America volume shows why Stephen Crane has come to be recognized as one of the most innovative and diversely talented writers of his generation, even though he died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. This comprehensive collection includes all his most accomplished and best-known works: five novels, short stories, journalism, war correspondence, and his two completed books of poetry. Here are the classic novels he published...
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Series
Library of America volume 28
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
13) Writings
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Library of America volume 34
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
c1987.
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...
15) Writings
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Library of America volume 37
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 40
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 42
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 45
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
The works of Abraham Lincoln preceding the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates illuminate the political career of one of our most courageous presidents and reveal his extraordinary gifts as a writer. Covering the years 1832 to 1858, this Library of America volume contains 240 speeches, letters, drafts, and fragments that record his emergence as an eloquent anti-slavery advocate and defender of the Constitution.
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Series
Library of America volume 46
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Abraham Lincoln, Americas heroic Civil War president, was also the greatest writer ever to occupy the White House. His addresses at Gettysburg and at his inaugurals, his presidential messages and public lectures, are an essential record of the war and have forever shaped the nations memories of it. This Library of America volume collects writings from 1859 to 1865 and contains 555 speeches, messages, proclamations, letters, memoranda,...
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