Library Of America: 150 books
Flowering Judas and Other Stories
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
The Library of America presents an exclusive e-book edition of the astonishing 1930 collection that introduced a major new voice in American literature. “If Katherine Anne Porter had written nothing but these short narratives," observed the New York Times, "she would be among the most distinguished masters of her craft in this country.”
by William Tecumseh Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1990
Hailed as prophet of modern war and condemned as a harbinger of modern barbarism, William Tecumseh Sherman is the most controversial general of the American Civil War. “War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it,” he wrote in fury to the Confederate mayor of Atlanta, and his memoir is filled...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
After 150 years the Civil War is still our greatest national drama, at once heroic, tragic, and epic-our Iliad, but also our Bible, a story of sin and judgment, suffering and despair, death and resurrection in a "new birth of freedom." Drawn from letters, diaries, speeches, articles, poems,...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1993
Here, on a scale unmatched by any previous collection, is the extraordinary energy and eloquence of our first national political campaign: During the secret proceedings of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the framers created a fundamentally new national plan to replace the Articles of Confederation...
Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
For the Whitman bicentennial, a delightful keepsake edition of the incomparable wisdom of America's greatest poet, distilled from his fascinating late-in-life conversations with Horace Traubel.
Toward the end of his life, Walt Whitman was visited almost daily at his home in Camden, New Jersey,...
Philip Roth at 80: A Celebration
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
On March 19, 2013, a distinguished group of writers and critics gathered at the Newark Museum’s Billy Johnson Auditorium in Newark, New Jersey, to celebrate the extraordinary career and lasting literary legacy of Philip Roth on the occasion of his 80th birthday. This keepsake volume gathers remarks...
Basketball: Great Writing About America's Game
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
From the street game to March Madness to Jordan and LeBron, the greatest writing about the grit, grace, and glory of basketball
Made in America, basketball is a sport that stirs a national passion, reaching fever pitch during the NCAA's March Madness and the NBA Finals. Masterfully assembled...
Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs (LOA #219)
In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians) / Can Such Things Be? / The Devil's Dictionary / Bits of Autobiography / selected stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Midst of Life (Tales of...
James Fenimore Cooper: Two Novels of the American Revolution (LOA #312)
The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground / Lionel Lincoln; or, The Leaguer of Boston
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
The American Revolution comes to vivid life in two dramatic tales of espionage, intrigue, and romance from the author of The Last of Mohicans.
With his second novel, The Spy*:A Tale of the Neutral Ground*, in 1821, James Cooper (the Fenimore would come later) found his true voice and what became...
The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W. C. Heinz
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Bill Littlefield (NPR's Only a Game) presents the second installment in the Library of America series devoted to classic American sportswriters, a defintive collector’s edition of the pathbreaking writer who invented the long-form sports story. Like his friend and admirer Red Smith, W. C. Heinz...
Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Library of America presents a classic novel of the Harlem Renaissance: Jesse Redmon Fauset's moving, delicately observed portrait of life along the color line.
Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Plum Bun (1928) brilliantly exemplifies the cultural, social, and creative ferment of the Harlem Renaissance....
The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Library of America presents a classic novel of the Harlem Renaissance: Wallace Thurman's anguished, provocative look at prejudice and exclusion in Jazz Age Harlem.
The Blacker the Berry (1929), Wallace Thurman’s debut novel, broke new ground as an exploration of issues of “colorism,”...
Quicksand
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Library of America presents one of the masterworks of the Harlem Renaissance, the tragic story of a young woman caught between worlds.
*Quicksand *(1928) turns the techniques of literary naturalism on questions of race, gender, and class, with unforgettable results. Nella Larsen’s immensely...
The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Who were the original hipsters? In this dazzling collection, Glenn O’Brien provides a kaleidoscopic guided tour through the margins and subterranean tribes of mid-twentieth century America—the worlds of jazz, of disaffected postwar youth, of those alienated by racial and sexual exclusion, of outlaws...