Library Of America: 150 books
James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales Vol. 1 (LOA #26)
The Pioneers / The Last of the Mohicans / The Prairie
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1985
The five novels in The Leatherstocking Tales (collected in two Library of America volumes), Cooper's great saga of the American wilderness, form a pageant of the American frontier. Cooper's hero, Natty Bumppo, is forced ever farther into the heart of the continent by the advance of civilization...
Dark Passage
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. David Goodis experienced a brief celebrity when his novel Dark Passage (1946) became the basis for a popular movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
On June 18, 1812, the United States formally declared war for the first time. President James Madison’s call to arms against Great Britain provoked outpourings of patriotic fervor and vigorous—some said treasonous—domestic opposition. Over the next three years the War of 1812 would prove as...
Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories (LOA #235)
Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / uncollected stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
In the winter of 1912, Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) abruptly left his office and spent three days wandering through the Ohio countryside, a victim of “nervous exhaustion.” Over the next few years, abandoning his family and his business, he resolved to become a writer. Novels and poetry followed,...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
For the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, acclaimed historian Gordon S. Wood presents a landmark collection of British and American pamphlets from the political debate that divided an empire and created a nation: In 1764, in the wake of its triumph in the Seven Years War,...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
For the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, acclaimed historian Gordon S. Wood presents a landmark collection of British and American pamphlets from the political debate that divided an empire and created a nation: In 1764, in the wake of its triumph in the Seven Years War,...
Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution
A Library of America Paperback Classic
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Now in paperback, Paine's essential American writings in authoritative Library of America texts: After a life of obscurity and failure in England, Thomas Paine came to America in 1774 at age 37. Within fourteen months he published Common Sense, the most influential pamphlet of the American Revolution,...
Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979 (LOA #291)
The Group / Birds of America / Cannibals and Missionaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In the second volume of the definitive edition of her fiction, three novels by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation, including the landmark classic The Group.
In Mary McCarthy's most famous novel, The Group (1963), she depicts the lives of eight Vassar College graduates...
Street of No Return
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 *Street of No Return *(1954), David Goodis presents a skid row odyssey in which a famous crooner scarred by violence descends into dereliction....
The Moon in the Gutter
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. The Moon in the Gutter (1953) is one of David Goodis’s many tours of the down-and-out neighborhoods of his native city of Philadelphia. William Kerrigan’s...
by Virgil Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Revisit the Golden Age of classical music in America through the witty and adventurous reviews of our greatest critic-composer: For fourteen memorable years Virgil Thomson surveyed the worlds of opera and classical music as the chief music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. An accomplished composer...
A Street in Bronzeville
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Gwendolyn Brooks was one of the most accomplished and acclaimed poets of the last century, the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize and the first black woman to serve as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress—the forerunner of the U.S. Poet Laureate. Here, in an exclusive Library of...
Henry James: Autobiographies (LOA #274) Brother / The Middle Years / Other Writings
A Small Boy and Others / Notes of a Son and Brother / The Middle Years / Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The most extensive collection of Henry James's autobiographical writings ever published offers a revelatory self-portrait from one of America's supreme novelists and his famous family. In 1911, deeply affected by the death of his brother William the year before, Henry James began working on a book...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
This final installment of the highly acclaimed four-volume series traces events from March 1864 to June 1865. It provides an incomparable portrait of a nation at war with itself, while illuminating the military and political events that brought the Union to final victory, and slavery and secession...