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Authors, American 20th century Correspondence HISTORY / Military / World War I HISTORY / United States / 20th Century United States History 1783-1815 Sources United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Sources United States History War of 1812 Personal narratives United States History War of 1812 Sources World War, 1914-1918 Personal narratives, AmericanBowles, Jane
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 BOWAshbery, John
Summary: Published for his ninetieth birthday, Library of America presents the second volume of John Ashbery’s collected poems, spanning a crucial and prolific decade in the poet’s work. The volume opens with the indispensable Flow Chart (1991), in a complete text for the first time. The other collections gathered here—Hotel Lautréamont (1992), And the Stars Were Shining (1994), Can You Hear, Bird...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ASHLeopold, 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 LEOAdams, John Quincy
Summary: Volume I begins during the American Revolution, with Adams's first entry, as he prepares to embark on a perilous wartime voyage to Europe with his father, diplomat John Adams, and records his early impressions of Franklin and Jefferson and of Paris on the eve of revolution; it details his abbreviated but eventful years of study at Harvard and his emergence into the world of politics in his own...
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY ADASontag, Susan
Summary: An unprecedented collection of the controversial later writings of the greatest and most provocative critic of our time. Susan Sontag was the most influential critic of her time. This second volume in Library of America's definitive Sontag edition gathers all the collected essays and speeches from her last quarter-century, brilliant works whose subjects, from the AIDS epidemic, 9/11, the Iraq...
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SONBaldwin, James
Contents: Notes of a native son -- Nobody knows my name -- The fire next time -- No name in the street -- The devil finds work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1998
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Summary: "For fourteen memorable years Virgil Thomson surveyed the worlds of opera and classical music as the chief music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. An accomplished composer who knew music from the inside, Thomson communicated its pleasures and complexities to a wide readership in a hugely entertaining, authoritative style, and his daily reviews and Sunday articles set a high-water mark in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 THOSummary: The Broadway musical is one of America’s great indigenous popular forms, a glorious hybrid that emerged “out of our speech, our tempo, our moral attitudes, our way of moving” (as Leonard Bernstein put it). Now, in this first volume of a landmark two-volume collection, The Library of America presents eight enduring masterpieces charting the Broadway musical’s narrative tradition from the...
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792 AMESummary: Presents a collection of early American poetry in a tribute to the diversity and range of poetic traditions from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and includes regional music ballads and Native American translations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.308 AMEHearn, Lafcadio
Contents: Some Chinese ghosts -- Chita: a memory of last island -- Two years in the French West Indies -- Youma: the story of a West-Indian slave -- Selected journalism -- Letters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 HEALiebling, 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 LIEMiller, Arthur
Summary: This volume---the second on The Library of America's definitive edition of the works of Arthur Miller---offers an unprecedented look at the extraordinary middle phase of an essential American dramatist. Here are fourteen plays, from Broadway hits to previously unpublished rarities, that trace Miller's evolving genius as he experimented with new forms and themes. Included are After the Fall, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812 MILVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: ..."The final three novels of the visionary master who defined a generation. Bluebeard (1987) is the colorful history of a phenomenally gifted realist painter who, in the 1950s, betrayed his artistic vision for commercial success. Now, at seventy-one, he writes his memoirs and plots his revenge on the worldly forces that conspired to corrupt his talent. In Hocus Pocus (1990), a freewheeling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VONWard, Lynd
Summary: From the eve of the Great Depression to the onset of World War II, Lynd Ward, America's first great graphic novelist, bore witness to the roiling, dizzying national scene as both a master printmaker and a socially committed storyteller. His medium of expression, the wordless "novel in woodcuts," was his alone in the United States, and he quickly brought it from bold iconic infancy to a still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 761.2 WARSummary: Brings together the words of over 60 writers, from Twain's earliest reviews to today, probing the many facets of his incomparable humor, his revolutionary use of vernacular language, his exploration of the realities of American life, and his fearless opposition to the injustices and outrages of an imperialistic age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Classics of the United States, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 MARCrane, Hart
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 CRASummary: " ... [Draws from] letters, diary entries, speeches, articles, messages and poems to provide an incomparable literary portrait of a nation at war with itself, while illuminating the military and political events that brought the Union to final victory and slavery and secession to their ultimate destruction ..."--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 CIVAdams, John
Summary: A powerful polemicist, insightful political theorist, and tireless diplomat, John Adams (1735–1826) was a vital and controversial figure during the early years of the American republic. Once overshadowed by Washington and Jefferson, Adams has become the subject of renewed interest, with a best-selling biography and acclaimed television series reintroducing him to millions. Now, this final...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 ADALongfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.3 LONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: SC Longfellow 2000Swenson, May
Summary: The first comprehensive edition of May Swenson's work, gathering all of the poems she published in the collections Another Animal (1954), A Cage of Spines (1958), To Mix with Time (1963), Half Sun Half Sleep (1967), Iconographs (1970), New and Selected Things Taking Place (1978), and In Other Words (1987), as well as an extensive selection of previously uncollected poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 SWETwain, Mark
Summary: A tramp abroad (1880) is based on Twain's travels in Europe from April 1878 to August 1879, blending autobiography and fiction. Presented with the author's original sketches, Twain provides a humorous travelogue with commentary on Old World customs, Wagnerian opera, and the German language interlaced with American reminiscences. Following the equator (1897) chronicles Twain's 1895...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.4 TwainSummary: Covers the Civil War from January 1862 to January 1863, describing the events of that year through messages, proclamations, newspaper articles, letters, diaries, and poems from people who lived through it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 CIVSummary: A collection of letters, speeches, diary entries, newspaper and magazine articles, memoir excerpts, poems, sermons, songs, and military reports that provide a rich first-hand panorama of the War of 1812 as it was experienced by a wide range of participants: Americans, Britons, Canadians, and Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2013