Library Of America: 150 books
by John Quincy Adams
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
For the 250th anniversary of John Quincy Adams's birth, a landmark new selected edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait of a man and his times from the Revolution to the coming of the Civil War.
The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
For the centenary of America's entry into World War I, A. Scott Berg presents a landmark anthology of American writing from the cataclysmic conflict that set the course of the 20th century.
Few Americans appreciate the significance and intensity of America's experience of World War I, the...
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Complete Orsinia (LOA #281)
Malafrena / Stories and Songs
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The inaugural volume of Library of America’s Ursula K. Le Guin edition gathers her complete Orsinian writings, enchanting, richly imagined historical fiction collected here for the first time. Written before Le Guin turned to science fiction, the novel Malafrena is a tale of love and duty set...
Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home (LOA #315)
Author's Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Ursula K. Le Guin's richly-imagined vision of a post-apocalyptic California, in a newly expanded version prepared shortly before her death
This fourth volume in the Library of America’s definitive Ursula K. Le guin edition presents her most ambitious novel and finest achievement, a mid-career...
Mary McCarthy: Novels & Stories 1942-1963 (LOA #290)
The Company She Keeps / The Oasis / The Groves of Academe / A Charmed Life / stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In the first volume of the definitive edition of her fiction, four novels and eight classic stories by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation.
Seventy-five years ago Mary McCarthy provoked a scandal with her electrifying debut novel, The Company She Keeps (1942), announcing...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
**A first-of-its-kind gathering of the essential texts of the American antiwar tradition, from the Revolution to the war on terror: over 150 eloquent, provocative voices for peace. **
Library of America presents an unprecedented tribute to a great American literary tradition. War has been...
Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s (LOA #268)
Laura / The Horizontal Man / In a Lonely Place / The Blank Wall
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The Library of America and editor Sarah Weinman redefine the classic era of American crime fiction with a landmark collection of four brilliant novels by the female pioneers of the genre, the women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline.
Though women crime and...
by H. P. Lovecraft
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2005
In this Library of America volume, the best-selling novelist Peter Straub brings together the very best of H. P. Lovecraft's fiction in a treasury guaranteed to bring fright and delight both to longtime fans and to readers new to his work. Early stories such as "The Outsider," "The...
James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales Vol. 2 (LOA #27)
The Pathfinder / The Deerslayer
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1985
When Cooper's most memorable hero, Leatherstocking, started an American tradition by setting off into the sunset in The Pioneers, one early reader said of his departure, "I longed to go with him."
American readers couldn't get enough of the Leatherstocking saga (collected in two...
Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings (LOA #287)
Complete stories / The Member of the Wedding: A Play / The Sojourner / The Square Root of Wonderful / essays, poems & autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Celebrated worldwide for her masterly novels, Carson McCullers was equally accomplished, and equally moving, when writing in shorter forms. This Library of America volume brings together for the first time her twenty extraordinary stories, along with plays, essays, memoirs, and poems. Here are...
The Burglar
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
For the first time, the best work of a distinctive master of American noir is available in authoritative e-book editions from The Library of America. In The Burglar (1953), first published like all his later novels as a paperback original, David Goodis explores his characteristic notion of the criminal...
Lafcadio Hearn: American Writings (LOA #190)
Some Chinese Ghosts / Chita / Two Years in the French West Indies / Youma / selected journalism and letters
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
A translator of Flaubert and Gautier, Lafcadio Hearn was the master of a gaudy and sometimes self-consciously decadent literary style, but he was also a tough-minded and keenly observant reporter, with an eye for the offbeat, the sensual, and occasionally the gruesome. The writings of his American...
by May Swenson
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
In celebration of the centenary of May Swenson’s birth, The Library of America presents a one-volume edition of all of the poems that Swenson published in her lifetime—from her first collection Another Animal (1954) to the innovative shaped poems of Iconographs (1970) to her final work In Other...
Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics (LOA #263)
Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic / Moral Man and Immoral Society / The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness / The Irony of American History
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
A definitive collection of the theologian and public intellectual who was the conscience of the American Century. “One of my favorite philosophers,” remarked Barack Obama about the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) in 2007. President Obama is but one of the many American political leaders—including...