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Library of America volume 35
Publisher
Literary Classics of the U.S
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 68
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 72
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Presents five works from American writer John Steinbeck, all portraying life in rural California.
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The Library of America volume 96
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Series
The Library of America volume 115-116
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Presents a selection of poems from eighty-five American poets written between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of World War II; arranged chronologically by the birthdate of the author, from 1838 to 1893.
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Series
Library of America volume 121
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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Description
"With this volume (a companion to Collected Stories 1911-1937), The Library of America presents the finest of Wharton's achievement in short fiction, drawn from the more than eighty stories she published over the course of her career. Here, in settings familiar and exotic, are all of Wharton's characteristic qualities and themes: her candid exploration of relations between the sexes; her satire, sometimes gentle, sometimes despairing, of social class...
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Series
Library of America volume 132
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 154
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Series
The Library of America volume 212
Publisher
distributed in the United States by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
" ... Drawn from letters, diaries, speeches, articles, poems, songs, military reports, legal opinions, and memoirs, 'The Civil War: The First Year' brings together over 120 pieces by more than sixty participants to create a unique firsthand narrative of this great historical crisis ..."--Dust jacket flap.
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Series
Library of America volume 246
Publisher
Library Of America
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
With the publication of her first book, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. "What is important now," she wrote, "is to recover our senses ... In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." She would remain a catalyzing presence, whether writing about camp sensibility, the films of Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, her experiences as a traveler to...
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Series
Library of America volume 249
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Through his distinctive fusion of modernist daring and traditional storytelling, Bernard Malamud became one of postwar America's most important writers, his work an inspiration for and lasting influence on novelists who have come after him, Cynthia Ozick and Philip Roth most notably among them. The second volume of the Library of America's Malamud edition brings together three novels of the 1960s: A New Life (1961), a satiric campus novel set in the...
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Series
Library of America volume 284
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In his 1970 classic The Omni-Americans, Albert Murray (1916-2013) took aim at protest writers and social scientists who accentuated the "pathology" of race in American life. Against narratives of marginalization and victimhood, Murray argued that black art and culture, particularly jazz and blues, stand at the very headwaters of the American mainstream, and that much of what is best in American art embodies the "blues-hero tradition"- a heritage of...
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Series
Library of America volume 281
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 345
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"Texas troubadour, convicted embezzler, and adopted New Yorker William Sidney Porter--better known as O. Henry--was one of the world's great storytellers. A master of cunning plots and a gifted humorist, he is best known today for his beloved tale "The Gift of the Magi." But O. Henry's palette of moods and methods was as expansive as his exuberant imagination. This Library of America volume offers a fresh look at the full range of his literary genius....
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