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4) Writings
Author
Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
c1987.
Physical Desc
1605 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Series
Library of America volume 60-61
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
2 v. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A two-volume set that contains more than 270 speeches, sketches, short stories, maxims, and other writings by Mark Twain.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 80
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©1995
Physical Desc
1076 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Chandler's hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape that is both lyrical and violent.
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...
Series
The library of America volume 86
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
c1996.
Physical Desc
1067 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 97
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
970 pages ; 21 cm.
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...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature. I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most significant slave narratives. They describe whippings, torture, starvation, resistance, and hairbreadth escapes; slave auctions, kidnappings, and murders; sexual abuse, religious confusion, the struggle of learning to read and write; and the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
One of the greatest African American leaders and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote with unsurpassed eloquence on almost all the major issues confronting the American people during his life from the abolition of slavery to women's rights, from the Civil War to lynching, from American patriotism to Black Nationalism. Between 1950 and 1975, Philip S. Foner collected the most important of Douglass's hundreds...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 124
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
xiv, 703 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of essential writings features Thoreau's poetry and essays on nature, materialism, conformity, and politics; including such works as "Slavery in Massachusetts," "Civil Disobedience," "A Winter Walk," and "Life Without Principle."
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Much has been written about Thurgood Marshall, but this is the first book to collect his own words. Here are briefs he filed as a lawyer, oral arguments for the landmark school desegregation cases, investigative reports on race riots and racism in the Army, speeches and articles outlining the history of civil rights and criticizing the actions of more conservative jurists, Supreme Court opinions now widely cited in Constitutional law, a long and complete...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 141
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
1029 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of "The Adventures of Augie March," and reflects the mid-twentieth-century's psychological turmoil from more inhibited times in a volume that also includes "The Victim" and "Dangling Man."
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The men and women represented in this book had the extraordinary opportunity of witnessing the end of a 200-year struggle for freedom: the Civil War. Gathered here are the stirring testimonies of many African Americans including slaves who endured their last years of servitude before escaping from their masters, soldiers who fought for the freedom of their brethren and for equal rights, and reporters who covered the defeat of their oppressors. These...
Author
Series
The Library of America volume 195
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
xiii, 1019 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Collects legendary and controversial works by the mid-twentieth-century writer including posthumous, unedited, and previously unseen versions, in a comparative anthology that offers insight into the influence of editor Gordon Lish.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 209
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1064 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The third volume of the Library of America's edition of Saul Bellow's complete novels collects three essential works: Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970), Humboldt's Gift (1975) -- and The Dean's December (1982). In each, Bellow shows himself a master of biting social commentary and bold characterization--above all through a trio of unforgettable protagonists. These novels, written in the period of Bellow's greatest literary and popular acclaim--he was awarded...
17) Later novels
Author
Series
Library of America volume 272
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1075 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collects three novels by the Civil Rights-era author, including "Just Above My Head," which follows the life and times of famous gospel singer Arthur Montana.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 285-286
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 volumes (xii, 500, xii, 489 pages) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A paleontologist with the spirit of a poet."--Publisher.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 307
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xliii, 546 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Silent spring, together with rare letters, speeches, and other writings that reveal the personal courage and passionate commitment of Rachel Carson.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong lifelong personal engagement with Alcott's novel-what it has meant to them and why it still matters. Each takes as her subject one of the four March sisters, reflecting on their stories and what they have to teach us about life. Kate Bolick finds parallels in oldest sister Meg's brush...
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