Library Of America: 150 books
by Poul Anderson, Clifford D. Simak, Daniel Keyes
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
In a deluxe collector's edition hardcover, four classic novels from science fiction's most transformative decade, including the landmark Flowers for Algernon
This volume, the first of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, opens with Poul Anderson's...
by R. A. Lafferty
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
Wolf Hall meets The Man in the High Castle in this mind-bending science fiction classic, now presented in an authoritative new edition from Library of America
Plucked from time, Sir Thomas More arrives on the human colony of Astrobe in the year 2535 A.D., where there is trouble in utopia: can...
At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Named a best book of 2011 by the San Francisco Chronicle, At the Fights is a gritty and glittering anthology of the very best writing about boxing. Here are Jack London on the immortal Jack Johnson; Richard Wright on Joe Louis’s historic victory over Max Schmeling; A. J. Liebling’s brilliantly...
Nets to Catch the Wind
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
"It had been timed and planned perfectly.” A convicted killer and the detective escorting him to prison aboard a Pullman train are the victims of a mysterious double assassination. When the detective is posthumously accused of corruption and criminal conspiracy, his widow embarks on a campaign...
The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
"Film criticism is exciting just because there is no formula to apply," Pauline Kael once observed, "just because you must use everything you are and everything you know." Between 1968 and 1991, as regular film reviewer for The New Yorker, Kael used those formidable tools to shape...
Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Manny Farber (1917–2008) was a unique figure among American movie critics. Champion of what he called "termite art" (focused, often eccentric virtuosity as opposed to "white elephant" monumentality), master of a one-of-a-kind prose style whose jazz-like phrasing and incandescent...
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...
Five Ways to Forgiveness
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Here for the first time is the complete suite of five linked stories from Ursula K. Le Guin’s acclaimed Hainish series, which tells the history of the Ekumen, the galactic confederation of human colonies founded by the planet Hain. First published in 1995 as Four Ways to Forgiveness, and now...
Booth Tarkington: Novels & Stories (LOA #319)
The Magnificent Ambersons / Alice Adams / In the Arena: Stories of Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Thomas Mallon and Library of America invite readers to rediscover the Pulitzer Prize-winning novels of a classic American writer on the 150th anniversary of his birth
Much in need of rediscovery today, Booth Tarkington was among the most beloved and widely read writers of his era. In such classic...
Art in America 1945-1970 (LOA #259)
Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Experience the creative explosion that transformed American art, in the words of the artists, writers, and critics who were there: In the quarter century after the end of World War II, a new generation of painters, sculptors, and photographers transformed the face of American art and shifted the center...
The Omni-Americans
Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2020
Rediscover the "most important book on black-white relationships" in America in a special 50th anniversary edition introduced by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
"The United States is in actuality not a nation of black people and white people. It is a nation of multicolored people. . . . Any fool can...
by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2020
A landmark of literary recovery: the first major edition of 19th-century America's greatest woman writer
In her lifetime Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) was considered with George Eliot one of the two greatest women writers of the English language. She wrote fiction of remarkable intellectual...
by Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1989
Abraham Lincoln was the greatest writer of the Civil War as well as its greatest political leader. His clear, beautiful, and at times uncompromisingly severe language forever shaped the nation’s
understanding of its most terrible conflict. This volume, along with its companion, Abraham Lincoln:...
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
(American Poets Project #19)
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005
"If you wanted a poem," wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, "you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting or screaming or singing." From the life of Chicago's South Side she made a forceful and passionate poetry that fused Modernist aesthetics...