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The library of America volume 117
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
xiv, 854 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
No American writer of the 19th century was more universally enjoyed and admired than Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His works were extraordinary bestsellers for their era, achieving fame both here and abroad. Now, for the first time in over 25 years, Poems and Other Writings offers a full-scale literary portrait of America's greatest popular poet. Here are the poems that created an American mythology: Evangeline in the Forest Primeval, Hiawatha by the...
62) Slave narratives
Series
Library of America volume 114
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1035 p. : ill, ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents ten slave narratives that provide insight into the cruelty and degradation of the slave system; and includes a chronology of events, biographical and explanatory notes, and an essay on the texts.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 128
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
℗♭2001
Physical Desc
827 pages ; 21 cm.
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),...
Author
Series
The Library of America volume 133
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1346 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Arrowsmith (1925), Lewis portrays the medical education and career of Martin Arrowsmith, a physician who finds his commitment to the ideals of his profession tested by the greed and opportunism he encounters in private practice, public health work, and scientific research. The novel reaches its climax as its hero faces his greatest medical and moral challenges amid a deadly outbreak of plague on a Caribbean island. Arrowsmith was awarded the Pulitzer...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 136
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
xii, 1071 p. ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Collects all of the author's fiction for the first time, including stories meant for "A Vocation and a Voice," a book canceled by her publisher in 1900
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Series
The Library of America volume 141
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1029 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contains the first three novels by American author Saul Bellow: "Dangling Man," "The Victim," and "The Adventures of Augie March".
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Series
Library of America volume 159
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
818 pages, 61 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Three key works by the early twentieth-century author include the 'prophetic journalism' experiment of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Death in the Family, and the novella The Morning Watch
Author
Series
The Library of America volume 157
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
913 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A reader's edition of key writings by the acclaimed author includes the National Book Award-winning "Goodbye, Columbus" and the trenchant psychological portrait, "Letting Go."
Series
Library of America volume 182s
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
xxxi, 1047 pages, [80] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
As America and the world grapple with the consequences of global environmental change, the author, a writer and activist offers this anthology gathering the best and most significant American environmental writing from the last two centuries. "Each advance in environmental practice" in our nation's history, he observes in his introduction, "was preceded by a great book." In this work are the words that made a movement. Classics of the environmental...
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