Library Of America: 150 books
The 50 Funniest American Writers
According to Andy Borowitz
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Ever wondered who makes a very funny person laugh? Wonder no more. Brought together in this Library of America collection are America’s fifty funniest writers—according to acclaimed writer and comedian Andy Borowitz. Reaching back to Mark Twain and forward to contemporary masters such as David...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
A Library of America Paperback Classic
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
One of the greatest works of American autobiography, in a definitive Library of America text: Published seven years after his escape from slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) is a powerful account of the cruelty and oppression of the Maryland plantation culture...
Dangerous People: The Complete Text of Ursula K Le Guin's Kesh Novella
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
When it was first published in 1985, Ursula K. Le Guin’s ambitious and experimental novel Always Coming Home, a tapestry of interwoven stories, poems, histories, myths, and anthropological reports from the fictional Kesh society, included one chapter from a short novel called Dangerous People by...
Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
This classic 1939 collection of three short novels, now available in an exclusive Library of America e-book edition, elevated Katherine Anne Porter, in the words of one contemporary critic, “into the illustrious company headed by Hawthorne, Flaubert, and Henry James.”
In “Noon Wine?”...
American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith was the most widely read sportswriter of the last century and the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. From the 1940s to the 1980s, his nationally syndicated columns for the New York Herald Tribune and later for The New York Times traversed the world of...
The Horizontal Man
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Helen Eustis’s The Horizontal Man (1946) won an Edgar Award for best first novel and continues to fascinate as a singular mixture of detection, satire, and psychological portraiture. A poet on the faculty of an Ivy League school is found murdered, setting off ripple effects of anxiety, suspicion,...
Fools' Gold
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Two teenagers fresh out of stir set their sights on what looks like easy money in Dolores Hitchens’s Fools’ Gold (1958)—and get a painful education in how quickly and drastically a simple plan can spin out of control. The basis for Jean-Luc Godard’s film Band of Outsiders, Fools’ Gold is...
A Princess of Mars
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
In the spring of 1866, John Carter, a former Confederate captain prospecting for gold in the Arizona hills, slips into a cave and is overcome by mysterious vapors. He awakes to find himself naked, alone, and forty-eight million miles from Earth—a castaway on the dying planet Mars. Taken prisoner...
Herman Melville: Complete Poems (LOA #320)
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War / Clarel / John Marr and Other Sailors / Timoleon / Posthumous & Uncollected
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
An unprecedented single-volume edition of one of America's greatest poets, released to celebrate his bicentennial
Best known today for his novels and stories, the author of Moby-Dick was a devoted and accomplished poet. Ranging from Civil War battlefields to the haunted byways of the Holy Land,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
**The violent aftermath of the Civil War comes to dramatic life in this sweeping new collection of firsthand writing **
There are few periods in American history more consquential but less understood than Reconstruction, the tumultuous twelve years after Appomattox, when the battered nation...
Dance in America: A Reader's Anthology
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
From ballet and Balanchine to tap and swing, a treasury of unforgettable writing about the beauty and magic of American dance.
From the beginning, American dance has been an exciting fusion of many disparate influences, with European traditions of ballet and social dancing encountering Native...
Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
THE ESSENTIAL PLAYLIST OF GREAT WRITING ABOUT THE MUSIC THAT ROCKED AMERICA
Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy...
Pick-Up
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
First published as an unheralded paperback original, Pick-Up is an authentic underground classic, an explosive bulletin from the urban underbelly of mid-1950s America. It was Charles Willeford’s second novel, after a rough and wandering earlier life that had taken him from Depression-era hobo camps...
Some Chinese Ghosts
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Lafcadio Hearn was one of the most extraordinary figures in America literature, a journalist and novelist who became, later in life, a major literary icon in his adopted nation of japan. Some Chinese Ghosts (1887), a stylized retelling of ancient legends, was one of his earliest books, a foreshadowing...