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Library of AmericaParkman, Francis
Contents: v. 1. Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old râegime in Canada -- v. 2. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. A half-century of conflict. Montcalm and Wolfe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Amer NF Parkman v.2Contents: v. 1. Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman -- v. 2. Herman Melville to Stickney. American Indian poetry. Folk songs and spirituals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.308 American 1993Summary: An anthology of seminal American environmental writing from the past two centuries considers their influence on the ways in which people view the natural world and includes pieces by such figures as Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John James Audubon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.28 AMEAdams, Henry
Contents: Contains the first two parts of History of the United States of America during the first administration of Thomas Jefferson, and History of the United States of America during the second administration of Thomas Jefferson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.46 ADASummary: Comprised mostly of memoirs with some fiction, this volume gathers selections from the writings of 85 immigrants from 45 countries that illustrate the changing views of immigrants in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 BECMuir, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.74 MUIMerwin, W. S. (William Stanley)
Summary: Oracular and elegant, W. S. Merwin's poetry reveals a heightened sense of what is essential to human consciousness: the fragile framing of nature, the mysteries of memory and perception, the inescapable fact of our mortality. In a career spanning seven decades- from his brilliant emergence as the winner of the Yale Younger Poets' Prize in 1952 to his recent term as U.S. Poet Laureate-he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 MERMerwin, W. S. (William Stanley)
Summary: Oracular and elegant, W. S. Merwin's poetry reveals a heightened sense of what is essential to human consciousness: the fragile framing of nature, the mysteries of memory and perception, the inescapable fact of our mortality. In a career spanning seven decades- from his brilliant emergence as the winner of the Yale Younger Poets' Prize in 1952 to his recent term as U.S. Poet Laureate-he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 MERPoe, Edgar Allan
Contents: Theory of poetry -- Reviews of British and continental authors -- Reviews of American authors and American literature -- Magazines and criticism -- The literary and social scene -- Articles and marginalia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 POESontag, Susan
Summary: With the publication of her first book, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. "What is important now," she wrote, "is to recover our senses ... In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." She would remain a catalyzing presence, whether writing about camp sensibility, the films of Jean-Luc...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Preface (Tamerlane and other poems1827)--Letter to Mr.--(Poems-1831)-Preface (The Raven and other poems-1845) --O Tempora! O, Mores!--To Margaret--To Octavia--(etc.).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the U.S. 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.309 POEHawthorne, Nathaniel.
Summary: Here in one volume are all five of Nathaniel Hawthorne's world-famous novels. "The House of the Seven Gables" moves across 150 years from an ancestral crime condoned by the Puritan theocracy to a new beginning in the bustling and democratic Jacksonian era. Hawthorne's masterpiece, "The Scarlet Letter," is a dramatic allegory of the social consequences of adultery and the subversive force of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWEdwards, Jonathan
Contents: A faithful narrative of the surprising work of God -- The distinguishing marks of a work of the Spirit of God -- Some thoughts concerning the present revival of religion in New-England -- Sermons. Justification by faith alone ; Pressing into the kingdom of God ; God amongst his people ; A city on a hill ; Zeal an essential virtue of a Christian ; Sinners in the hands of an angry God ; The curse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 230.58 EDWWhitman, Walt
Contents: Leaves of grass (1855) -- Leaves of grass (1891-92) -- Complete prose works (1892) : Specimen days. Collect. Notes left over. Pieces in early youth. November boughs. Good-bye my fancy. Memoranda -- Supplementary prose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 WHIFranklin, Benjamin
Contents: Letters from London, 1757-1775 -- Paris, 1776-1785: including political satires, bagatelles, pamphlets, and letters -- Philadelphia, 1785-1790: including bagatelles, speeches in the Constitutional Convention, writings on slavery, letters -- Poor Richard's almanack, 1733-1758 -- The autobiography.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 FRATwain, Mark
Summary: Collection of Mark Twain's works over the last nineteen years of his life including a chronology of his life and career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 1992
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.4 TWACall number: 818.4 TWA
Twain, Mark
Contents: The adventures of Tom Sawyer -- Life on the Mississippi -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Pudd'nhead Wilson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1982