Library Of America: 150 books
Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories: The Civil War to World War II (LOA #302)
Nathan Coulter / Andy Catlett: Early Travels / A World Lost / A Place on Earth / Stories
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Library of America inaugurates its edition of the complete fiction of one of America's most beloved living writers
For more than fifty years, in eight novels and fortytwo short stories, Wendell Berry (b. 1934) has created an indelible portrait of rural America through the lens of Port William,...
Walden
A Library of America Paperback Classic
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
"Perhaps the most remarkable book in the American canon. As dense as scripture, crowded with aphorism, Walden is full enough of ideas for a score of ordinary books." -Bill McKibben
In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his pencil-manufacturing business and began building a cabin on the...
by Wendell Berry
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
The first volume of the Library of America's definitive two-volume selection of the nonfiction writings of our greatest living advocate for sustainable culture.
Writing with elegance and clarity, Wendell Berry is a compassionate and compelling voice for our time of political and cultural distrust...
by Wendell Berry
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
The second volume of the Library of America's definitive two-volume selection of the nonfiction writings of our greatest living advocate for sustainable culture.
Writing with elegance and clarity, Wendell Berry is a compassionate and compelling voice for our time of political and cultural distrust...
Madeleine L'Engle: The Polly O'Keefe Quartet (LOA #310)
The Arm of the Starfish / Dragons in the Waters / A House Like a Lotus / An Acceptable Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A Wrinkle in Time was only the beginning: here, together for the first time in a deluxe Library of America edition, are the thrilling adventures of Meg Murray's daughter Polly.
Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time is one of the most beloved and influential novels for young readers ever written,...
Madeleine L'Engle: The Wrinkle in Time Quartet (LOA #309)
A Wrinkle in Time / A Wind in the Door / A Swiftly Tilting Planet / Many Waters
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A Wrinkle in Time was only the beginning: rediscover an American classic and its three sequels in this deluxe Library of America edition.
This Library of America volume presents Madeleine L'Engle's iconic classic A Wrinkle in Time, one of the most beloved and influential novels for young readers...
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Library of America presents the first volume in a landmark two-volume collector's edition of the incomparable stories of an American master.
Born into an upper-class New York family, Edith Wharton broke with convention and became a professional writer, earning an enduring place as the grande...
Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings
A Library of America Paperback Classic
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Alone among American Presidents, it is possible to imagine Lincoln, grown up in a different milieu, becoming a distinguished writer of a not merely political kind.
--Edmund Wilson
Ranging from finely honed legal argument to wry and some sometimes savage humor to private correspondence and political...
by Louisa May Alcott
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Pioneering feminist novels and rare stories from the author of Little Women: After the success of her beloved masterpiece Little Women, Louisa May Alcott brought her genius for characterization and eye for detail to a series of revolutionary novels and stories that are remarkable in their forthright...
David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s & 50s (LOA #225)
Dark Passage / Nightfall / The Burglar / The Moon in the Gutter / Street of No Return
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
In 1997 The Library of America's Crime Novels: American Noir gathered, in two volumes, eleven classic works of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s--among them David Goodis's moody and intensely lyrical masterpiece Down There, adapted by François Truffaut for his 1960 film Shoot the Piano Player. Now, The Library...
by Ann Petry
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
In one volume, two landmark novels about the terrible power of race in America from one of the foremost African American writers of the past century.
Ann Petry is increasingly recognized as one of the essential American novelists of the twentieth century. Now, she joins the Library of America...
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
In this complete and uniquely authoritative Library of America collection, Edgar Allan Poe's well-known tales of "mystery and imagination" and his best-known verse are collected with early poems, rarely published stories and humorous sketches, and the ecstatic prose poem Eureka.
Poe's...
by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1992
This Library of America book, with its companion volume, is the most comprehensive collection ever published of Mark Twain's short writings — the incomparable stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires, and maxims of America's greatest humorist. Arranged chronologically...
Thomas Paine: Collected Writings (LOA #76)
Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / pamphlets, articles, and letters
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
Thomas Paine was the impassioned democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, and this volume brings together his best-known works: Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, along with a selection of letters, articles and pamphlets that emphasizes Paine's American years. “I...