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Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
Published in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the abolitionist's message to the White House and beyond. No woman before or since has so successfully written a novel designed to motivate America to act on a major issue of the day. Controversial still, this novel has weathered continual debates on all aspects of its writing and its subject matter. In her eloquent introduction, Ann Douglas establishes the historical and literary significane of this...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 24
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gift for everyone.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 35
Publisher
Literary Classics of the U.S
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
10) Later novels
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Series
Library of America volume 49
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Here are some of the most powerful and enchanting works by this renowned Southern author, contrasting grace and old-world charm with a new generation.
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Series
Library of America volume 59
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
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Description
In Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to reveal as no writer had done before the complacency and conformity of middle-class life in America. These remarkable novels combine brilliant satire with a lingering affection for the men and women who, as Lewis wrote of Babbitt, want "to seize something more than motor cars and a house before it's too late."
Main Street (1920), Lewis's first triumph,...
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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.
13) Dom Casmurro
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson's critically acclaimed translations of Posthumous Memoirs of Br�as Cubas and The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis introduced a new generation of readers to one of Brazil's most groundbreaking authors. Hailed as "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America" (Susan Sontag), Machado's genius is on full display in this fresh translation of the 1899 classic Dom Casmurro. In his supposed memoir, Bento...
14) Complete novels
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Series
Library of America volume 101
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 106
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Collection of short stories by the author of Daisy Miller and The turn of the screw.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 121
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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...
17) Complete novels
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Series
Library of America volume 128
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"In The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940), one of the most extraordinary debuts in modern American literature, an enigmatic deaf-mute draws out the confessions of an itinerant worker, a young girl, a doctor, and a widowed cafe proprietor. The disfiguring violence of desire is explored with shocking intensity in two shorter works, Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941), a tale of murder and madness at an army base, and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1943),...
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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 139
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This fourth volume in the Library of America edition of the complete novels of Henry James contains the four novels he wrote after a failed attempt to forge a career as a playwright on the London stage. Together they mark the beginning of the brilliant period in the novelist's career known as the late phase. "The Other House" (1896) shows James incorporating an act of murder into the heart of his narrative. Long neglected, the novel is a fascinating...
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Series
Library of America volume 142
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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