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1) Silas Marner
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English
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Eliot's touching novel of a miser and a little child combines the charm of a fairy tale with the humor and pathos of realistic fiction. The gentle linen weaver, Silas Marner, exiles himself to the town of Raveloe after being falsely accused of a heinous theft. There he begins to find redemption and spiritual rebirth through his unselfish love for an abandoned child he discovers in his isolated cottage.
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English
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"Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me." With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester wears a scarlet "A" upon her breast, the sign of adultery visible to all. Under an assumed name, her husband begins his vindictive search for her lover, determined to expose what Hester is equally determined to protect. Defiant and proud, Hester witnesses the degradation of...
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The library of America volume 147
Classics of World Literature
Vintage classics
Perennial library volume PL 1522
Classics of World Literature
Vintage classics
Perennial library volume PL 1522
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xvi, 941 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
An influential study of America's national government, egalitarian ideals, and character offers reflections on the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals and provides insight into the rewards and responsibilities of a democratic government.
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Library of America volume 3
Publisher
Literary Classics
Pub. Date
©1982
Physical Desc
1380 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This Library of America edition is the most comprehensive volume of the work of Walt Whitman ever published. It includes all of his poetry and what he considered his complete prose. It is also the only collection that includes, in exactly the form in which it appeared in 1855, the first edition of Leaves of Grass. This was the book, a commercial failure, which prompted Emerson’s famous message to Whitman: “I greet you at the beginning of a great...
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Distributed to the trade by Viking Press
Pub. Date
©1982
Physical Desc
1020 pages ; 21 cm.
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.
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Series
Library of America volume 2
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1982]
Physical Desc
1493 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
7) Three novels
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Library of America volume 4
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1982]
Physical Desc
1478 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the stories of a saint-like slave, a religious woman's courtship in eighteenth-century Newport, R.I., and life in a small Massachusetts town
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Library of America volume 10
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
℗♭1983
Physical Desc
1272 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Here in one volume are all five of Nathaniel Hawthorne's world-famous novels. "The House of the Seven Gables" moves across 150 years from an ancestral crime condoned by the Puritan theocracy to a new beginning in the bustling and democratic Jacksonian era. Hawthorne's masterpiece, "The Scarlet Letter," is a dramatic allegory of the social consequences of adultery and the subversive force of personal desire in a community of laws. "The Blithedale Romance"...
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Library of America volume 14
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
©1983
Physical Desc
1246 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This Library of America volume includes the best-known works of Henry Adams, one of the most powerful and original minds to illuminate the American scene from the Civil War to World War I. Now brought together for the first time in a single volume, these works show the many forms—fiction, poetry, philosophical and historical speculation, autobiography—in which Adams gave expression to his vision of the meaning of the unsettling changes in American...
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Library of America volume 16
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the United States and Canada by the Viking Press
Pub. Date
©1983
Physical Desc
1126 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This Library of America volume brings together the first four works of Washington Irving, America’s first internationally recognized man of letters. Irving’s early writings earned the admiration of literary figures like Hawthorne, Poe, Coleridge, Byron, Scott, and Dickens. He was widely traveled, a connoisseur of the theater both at home and abroad, and an intimate of royalty and high society in Europe and America.
Irving’s career as a writer...
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Library of America volume 13
Publisher
Distributed by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
1287 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Five novels dramatize the interaction of Americans with more sophisticated Europeans.
12) Novels
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Library of America volume 30
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1985]
Physical Desc
1328 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The four novels in this volume show Wharton at the height of her powers as a social observer and critic, examining American and European lives with a vision rich in detail, satire, and tragedy.
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Series
Library of America volume 28
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1985]
Physical Desc
1114 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here in a single volume. Interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire. "Walden" is at once a personal...
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Library of America volume 25
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
1034 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
As I Lay Dying (1930) is a combination of comedy, horror, and compassion, a narrative woven from the inarticulate desires of a peasant family in conflict. It presents the conscious, unconscious, and sometimes hallucinatory impressions of the husband, daughter, and four sons of Addie Bundren, the long-suffering matriarch of her rural Mississippi clan, as the family marches her body through fire and flood to its grave in town.
Sanctuary (1931) is a...
15) Writings
Author
Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1986]
Physical Desc
1,334 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Historian, sociologist, novelist, editor, and political activist, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was the most gifted and influential black intellectual of his time. This Library of America volume presents his essential writings, covering the full span of a restless life dedicated to the struggle for racial justice."--The publisher's website
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Library of America volume 36
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1987]
Physical Desc
1168 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Includes "My brother Paul."
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Series
Library of America volume 38
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1987]
Physical Desc
1,379 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the role of religion in human lives, the nature of the universe, truth, pragmatism, war, politics, and metaphysics
18) Collected works
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Series
Library of America volume 39
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1988]
Physical Desc
1281 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In her short lifetime, Flannery O'Connor became one of the most distinctive American writers of the twentieth century. By birth a native of Georgia and a Roman Catholic, O'Connor depicts, in all its comic and horrendous incongruity, the limits of worldly wisdom and the mysteries of divine grace in the "Christ-haunted" Protestant South. This Library of America collection, the most comprehensive ever published, contains all of her novels and short-story...
19) Complete plays
Author
Series
Library of America volume 40-42
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
3 v. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
20) Later novels
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Series
Library of America volume 49
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
℗♭1990
Physical Desc
988 pages ; 21 cm
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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