Library Of America: 150 books
by Abigail Adams
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early...
The Call of the Wild
A Library of America Paperback Classic
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
"No other popular writer of his time did any better writing than you will find in The Call of the Wild."
—H. L. Mencken
One of the greatest American storytellers, Jack London enjoyed phenomenal popularity in his own time and remains widely read throughout the world. His work is...
John Muir: Nature Writings (LOA #92)
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1997
In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir became America's most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness. A crucial figure in the creation of our national parks system and a far-seeing prophet of environmental awareness who founded...
by Ring Lardner
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
At the height of the Jazz Age, Ring Lardner was America’s most beloved humorist, equally admired by a popular audience and by literary friends like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson. A sports writer who became a sensation with his comic baseball bestseller, You Know Me Al, Lardner had a rare...
by Frederick Law Olmsted
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
The biggest and best single-volume collection ever published of the fascinating and wide-ranging writings of a vitally important nineteenth century cultural figure whose work continues to shape our world today. Seaman, farmer, abolitionist, journalist, administrator, reformer, conservationist, and...
by Virgil Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
**An unprecedented collection of polemical and autobiographical writings by America’s greatest composer-critic. **Following on the critically acclaimed 2014 edition of Virgil Thomson's collected newspaper music criticism, The Library of America and Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic Tim Page...
by Katherine Anne Porter
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Eudora Welty said that Katherine Anne Porter ?writes stories with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory.? Set in her native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic Old South, they are stories of love, outrage, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning that...
Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s (LOA #269)
Mischief / The Blunderer / Beast in View / Fools' Gold
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...
Nightfall
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 Nightfall (1947), David Goodis explores the theme of the innocent pursued, as artist Jim Vanning becomes accidentally embroiled in a violent robbery...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The Library of America's ambitious four-volume series continues with this volume that traces events from January 1862 to January 1863, an unforgettable portrait of the crucial year that turned a secessionist rebellion into a war of emancipation. Including eleven never-before- published pieces, here...
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
This is the third volume of the ground-breaking eyewitness narrative that has been called a "masterpiece."
Spanning the crucial months from January 1863 to March 1864, this third volume of The Library of America’s highly acclaimed four volume series presents an incomparable portrait...
by Peter Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
For the first time, the complete stories of the master chronicler of tradition and transformation in the twentieth-century South.
Born and raised in Tennessee, Peter Taylor was the great chronicler of the American Upper South, capturing its gossip and secrets, its divided loyalties and morally...
by Peter Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
For the first time, the complete stories of the master chronicler of tradition and transformation in the twentieth-century South.
Born and raised in Tennessee, Peter Taylor was the great chronicler of the American Upper South, capturing its gossip and secrets, its divided loyalties and morally...
William Wells Brown: Clotel & Other Writings (LOA #247)
Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave / Clotel; or, the President's Daughter / The American Fugitive in Europe / The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Born a slave and kept functionally illiterate until he escaped at age nineteen, William Wells Brown (1814–1884) refashioned himself first as an agent of the Underground Railroad, then as an antislavery activist and self-taught orator, and finally as the author of a series of landmark works that...