Summary: "In the 1970s, feminist authors created a new mode of science fiction in defiance of the "baboon patriarchy"--Ursula K. Le Guin's words--that had long dominated the genre, imagining futures that are still visionary. In this sequel to her groundbreaking 2018 anthology The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin, SF-expert Lisa Yaszek...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2023

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Summary: "In this second volume of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, R. A. Lafferty's quirky and utterly original Past Master, an unjustly neglected classic, imagines Sir Thomas More transported to the colony Astrobe in the year 2535, where he is made president of a future Utopia. In Picnic on Paradise, Joanna Russ presents her indelible heroine,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019

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Cather, Willa

Summary: Presents a selection of writings by nineteenth-century American author Willa Cather, featuring the short story collection "The Troll Garden, " and four novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "One of Ours."

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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the U.S. 1987

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Cheever, John.

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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Jackson, Shirley

Summary: "In just two decades she died in 1965, at the age of 48 Shirley Jackson created a weird and distinctive world of fiction, one in which a grinning death's head lies just behind the smiling mask of so-called everyday life. She first displayed her genius for conjuring daylight demons in The Lottery, the classic collection whose world-famous title story is an allegory of bloodlust and blind...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010

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James, Henry

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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1996

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Le Guin, Ursula K.

Summary: Gifts: When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020

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Lewis, Sinclair

Summary: Contains the full text to three novels by satirist Sinclair Lewis.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2002

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Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

Summary: "This volume brings together 22 tales, the very best of [Lovecraft's] fiction"--Jacket.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2005

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McCarthy, Mary

Summary: In the second volume of the definitive edition of her fiction, three novels by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation, including the landmark classic The Group. In Mary McCarthy's most famous novel, The Group (1963), she depicts the lives of eight Vassar College graduates during the 1930s as they grapple with sex, sexism, money, motherhood, and family. McCarthy's final two...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017

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O'Hara, John

Summary: Already a frequent contributor of well-crafted stories to The New Yorker when he turned to the larger canvas of the novel, John OHara wrote with unusual acuity about the power of status and class in American life. His reputation as a novelist rests largely on four extraordinary books published from 1934 to 1940. These early novels, like those of his contemporaries Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018

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Roth, Philip.

Contents: The dying animal -- The plot against America -- Exit ghost.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2013

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Roth, Philip.

Contents: When she was good -- Portnoy's complaint -- Our gang -- The breast.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2005

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Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Contents: A friend of Kafka & other stories -- A crown of feathers & other stories -- Passions & other stories -- Chronology -- Note on the texts -- Glossary and notes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004

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Summary: In the 1960s a number of gifted writers--some at the peak of their careers, others newcomers--reimagined American crime fiction through formal experimentation and the exploration of audacious new subjects and themes. This is the first of two volumes gathering the best of their work, nine novels of astonishing variety and inventiveness that pulse with the energies of that turbulent,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2023

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Anaya, Rudolfo A.

Summary: "Mythmaker, master storyteller, and a writer powerfully attuned to the land and history of his native New Mexico, Rudolfo Anaya is one of the undisputed fathers of Chicano literature. Writing in an era when Latino voices were marginalized and just beginning to be read and acknowledged, Anaya broke new ground with Bless Me, Ultima (1972), a mythic novel that captures the richness and complexity...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022

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Bellow, Saul

Summary: For his centennial (June 10, 2015), The Library of America and editor James Wood present the final volume in the definitive edition of Saul Bellow’s complete novels. In the last stage of his unparalleled career—which included winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976—Saul Bellow remained an uproarious comic storyteller, a provocative thinker deeply engaged with the intellectual...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2014

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Bowles, Paul

Summary: Collects the author's short stories, a novella titled "Up Above the World," and a travel book first published in 1963.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2002

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Cather, Willa

Summary: Here are some of the most powerful and enchanting works by this renowned Southern author, contrasting grace and old-world charm with a new generation

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1990

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Chandler, Raymond

Summary: Pulp stories; The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; and The High Window.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995

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Cooper, James Fenimore

Contents: v. 1. The pioneers, or The sources of the Susquehanna; a descriptive tale. The last of the Mohicans; a narrative of 1757. The prairie; a tale -- v. 2. The pathfinder, or The inland sea. The deerslayer, or The first war-path.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the U.S. 1985

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