Library Of America: 150 books
The Unexpected Universe
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
At the height of a distinguished career as a paleontologist, Loren Eiseley turned from fieldwork and scientific publication to the personal essay. Here, in The Unexpected Universe, he displays his far-reaching knowledge and searching curiosity about the natural world, and the qualities that led many...
Virgil Thomson
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Virgil Thomson was a gifted composer and one of the nation’s foremost cultural critics. The best-selling autobiography Virgil Thomson (1966) is his gossipy telling of his own extraordinary progress from unteachable smart aleck to revered elder statesman. It recounts his artistically precocious...
President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Tr
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
For the 150th anniversary, Harold Holzer (The Civil War in 150 Objects) presents an unprecedented firsthand chronicle of one of the most pivotal moments in American history. On April 14, 1865, Good Friday, the Civil War claimed its ultimate sacrifice. President Lincoln Assassinated!! recaptures the...
Orsinian Tales
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
in a career spanning half a century, Ursula K. Le Guin has produced a body of work that testifies to her abiding faith in the power and art of words. She is perhaps best known for imagining future intergalactic worlds in brilliant books that challenge our ideas of what is natural and inevitable...
Malafrena
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
in a career spanning half a century, Ursula K. Le Guin has produced a body of work that testifies to her abiding faith in the power and art of words. She is perhaps best known for imagining future intergalactic worlds in brilliant books that challenge our ideas of what is natural and inevitable...
The Night Country
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Weaving together memoir, philosophical reflection, and his always keen observations of the natural world, Loren Eiseley’s essays in The Night Country explore those moments, often dark and unexpected, when chance encounters disturb our ordinary understandings of the universe. The naturalist here...
The Firmament of Time
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
In The Firmament of Time––nominated for a National Book Award––Loren Eiseleyoffers a series of brilliant, provocative excursions through the history of science. A paleontologist with the soul and skill of a poet, he reflects on the many ways in which the quest for knowledge has been shaped...
The Invisible Pyramid
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
To read Loren Eiseley is to renew a sense of wonder at the miracles and paradoxes of evolution and the ever-changing diversity of life. In this brilliant collection he considers the cosmological significance and ultimate meanings of our evolutionary history, offering a series of profound, lyrical...
by Lynd Ward
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
In this, the first of two volumes collecting all his woodcut novels, The Library of America brings together Lynd Ward’s earliest books, published when the artist was still in his twenties. Gods’ Man (1929), the audaciously ambitious work that made Ward’s reputation, is a modern morality...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 1982
This first volume of The Library of America's three-volume edition of the complete prose works of Herman Melville includes three romances of the South Seas. Typee and Omoo, based on the young Melville's experiences on a whaling ship, are exuberant accounts of the idyllic life among the "cannibals"...
The Member of the Wedding: A Play
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Celebrated worldwide for her masterly novels, Carson McCullers was equally accomplished, and equally moving, when writing in other forms. The play The Member of the Wedding (1950), adapted from her 1946 novel at the urging of her close friend Tennessee Williams is, like Thornton Wilder’s Our Town,...
Countee Cullen: Collected Poems
(American Poets Project #32)
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
A major and sometimes controversial figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Countee Cullen fused a mastery of the formal lyric with a passionate engagement with themes social, religious, racial, and personal in such books as Color, Copper Sun, and The Black Christ. Certain of his poems—“Heritage,”...
March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
On its 150th anniversary, four acclaimed authors offer personal reflections on their lifelong engagement with Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of girlhood and growing up.
For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria...
The Watcher
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
“The fact is that during the last year I have killed three young people”: A pleasant waterfront community in California is subjected to a series of seemingly random killings, the victims all children. Dolores Hitchens’ intricately plotted novel explores a town’s collective terror, as the inhabitants...