West, Nathanael
Summary: A collection of six works by Nathanael West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESCarson, Rachel
Summary: This deluxe Library of America volume presents one of the landmark books of the twentieth century together with rare letters, speeches, and other writings that reveal the personal courage and passionate commitment of its author, Rachel Carson. A huge bestseller when published in September 1962, Silent Spring led not only to many of the laws and government agencies that protect our air, land,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 CARLeopold, Aldo
Summary: A Sand County almanac is often hailed as a foundational work of the modern environmental movement. Here, it is paired with over fifty other pieces by Leopold: uncollected articles, essays, speeches, and other writings that chart the evolution of his ideas over the course of three decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.73 LEOHammett, Dashiell
Summary: In the stories and novellas he wrote for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett took the detective story and turned it into a medium for capturing the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern American life. In this volume, The Library of America collects the finest of these stories: 24 in all, along with some revealing essays and an earlier version...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2001
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Summary: Though Jane Bowles published only one novel, one play, and a handful ofstories, her genius for spare prose and vivid dialogue had an outsized influence onher contemporaries. Tennessee Williams called her "the most important writer ofprose fiction in modern American letters"; for John Ashbery she was "one of thefinest modern writers of fiction in any language." Now, on the occasion of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 BOWThomson, Virgil
Summary: "In this second volume in the Library of America's definitive Virgil Thomson edition, Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page collects for the first time the great composer's four witty, incisive, and compulsively readable full-length works. Written with authority and élan, these classic books offer an engrossing tour of the tumultuous twentieth-century musical scene and Thomson's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 THOMatsuo, Bashō
Contents: Narrow road to the interior -- Travelogue of weather-beaten bones -- The knapsack notebook -- Sarashina travelogue -- Selected haiku.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 895.6132 MATRousseau, Jean-Jacques
Contents: Chronology of Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Discourse on the Sciences and Arts or First Discourse. Replies to Critics. Letter to M. l'Abbe Raynal. Observations [to Stanislas, King of Poland]. Letter to Grimm. Last Reply. Letter about a New Refutation. Preface to Narcissus. Preface of a Second Letter to Bordes -- Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men or Second Discourse....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 ROUKerouac, Jack
Summary: "In late 1944, under rather mysterious circumstances, aspiring writer Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript titled The Haunted Life. Set in Galloway, a fictionalized version of Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin-a character based on the author's recently departed friend Sebastian Sampas-tackles the pressing issues of the day. At home in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KERThoreau, Henry David
Contents: The texts of Walden, Civil disobedience, and other writings: Walden -- Civil disobedience -- Slavery in Massachusetts -- Walking -- Wild apples -- Journal: The Journal and Walden -- Selections from the Journal, 1845-54 -- Reviews and posthumous assessments -- Modern criticism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.303 THORyan, Cornelius
Summary: "Library of America presents two of the best books ever written about World War II in a deluxe collector's edition featuring 88 pages of photographs, full-color endpaper maps, rare archival material revealing how the books were written, and a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Rick Atkinson (The Liberation Trilogy). The Longest Day tells the story of the Allies'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 RYALiebling, A. J. (Abbott Joseph)
Contents: The sweet science -- The Earl of Louisiana -- The jollity building -- Between meals -- The press.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.52 LIESummary: The footage has been shot and the clock is ticking. How does a television news reporter put together an interesting and informative story in today's hurry-up media marketplace? This program discusses the steps involved in preparing reports for the TV news: logging tapes; structuring the story; editing, including the techniques and relative benefits of linear and nonlinear editing; writing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Twain, Mark
Contents: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Pudd'nhead Wilson, a tale -- No. 44, the mysterious stranger -- Jim Smiley and his jumping frog -- The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut -- Private history of a campaign that failed -- Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses -- How to tell a story -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg -- To the person sitting in the darkness -- The United...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TWAMcCullers, Carson.
Summary: Celebrated worldwide for her masterly novels, Carson McCullerswas equally accomplished, and equally moving, when writingin shorter forms. This Library of America volume brings together for the first time her twenty extraordinary stories, along with plays, essays, memoirs, and poems. Here are the indelible tales Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland and A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. as well as her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 MCCGarcía Márquez, Gabriel
Summary: "From one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s--work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed worksof fiction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 864 GARBartram, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.5 BARChandler, Raymond
Summary: Later Novels and Other Writings begins with The Lady in the Lake (1943). Written during the war, the story takes Marlowe out of the seamy L.A. streets to the deceptive tranquility of the surrounding mountains, as the search for a businessman's missing wife expands into an elegy of loneliness and loss. The darker tone typical of Chandler's later fiction is evident in The Little Sister (1949), in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC CHANDSteinbeck, John
Summary: This second volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel had an electrifying impact upon publication in 1939, unleashing a political storm with its vision of America's dispossessed struggling for survival. It continues to exert a powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1996
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Summary: Presents a selection of critical writings, short fiction, and poetry by American author Edgar Allan Poe, including the title story in which a visitor to a gloomy mansion finds a childhood friend dying under the spell of a family curse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2003
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Contents: Goodbye, my brother -- The common day -- The enormous radio -- O city of broken dreams -- The Hartleys -- The Sutton Place story -- The summer farmer -- Torch song -- The pot of gold -- Clancy in the Tower of Babel -- Christmas is a sad season for the poor -- The season of divorce -- The chaste Clarissa -- The cure -- The superintendent -- The children -- The sorrows of gin -- O youth and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEHurston, Zora Neale.
Contents: Mules and men -- Tell my horse -- Dust tracks on a road -- Selected articles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.092 HURSummary: Ernesto "Che" Guevara was both a romantic and a rebel, honored by many for his commitment to liberation yet vilified by others as a rogue. This compelling program traces the life of a man whose idealism and determination gripped the imagination of an era. Interviews with family members, partisans, enemies, and others-including the photographer who immortalized him-share their recollections and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Dos Passos, John
Summary: "John Dos Passos traveled widely in Europe, the Middle East, Mexico, and the United States, witnessing many of the tumultuous political, social, and cultural events of the early 20th century and recording his changing response to them. This volume collects the vibrant and insightful travel books and essays he wrote at the same time he was publishing his fictional masterpieces Three Soldiers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2003