Bowles, 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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Eiseley, Loren C.

Summary: "A paleontologist with the spirit of a poet."--publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2016

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Taylor, Peter

Summary: This first volume offers twenty-nine early masterpieces, including such classics as “A Spinster’s Tale,” “What You Hear from ’Em?,” “Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time” and “Miss Leonora When Last Seen.” As a special feature, an appendix in the first volume gathers three stories Taylor published as an undergraduate that show the early emergence of his singular style and sensibility.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2017

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Summary: Five science fiction classics of the 1950s in one volume.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012

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Eiseley, Loren C.

Summary: "A modern Thoreau explores the mysteries of the universe."--publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2016

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Kerouac, Jack

Summary: In On the Road and other iconic works, Jack Kerouac created a quintessentially American voice and a revolutionary prose style. This remarkable gathering of previously unpublished writings reveals as neverbefore the extraordinary literary journey that led to his phenomenal success a journey with deep roots inthe language and culture of Kerouac's French Canadian childhood. Edited and published...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016

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O'Hara, John

Summary: Writing with equal insight about New York City, Hollywood, and the small-town Pennsylvania world where he grew up, John O'Hara cultivated an unsentimental and often unsparing realism, aiming, he said, "to record the way people talked and thought and felt . . . with complete honesty." Praised by contemporaries including Ernest Hemingway and Dorothy Parker, he wrote about sex, drinking, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2016

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Leopold, 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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Summary: A collection of 127 first-person narratives by writers such as Richard Harding Davis, Edith Wharton, John Reed, Henry Morgenthau, Leslie Davis, Jane Addams, Emma Goldman, Victor Chapman, Edmond Genet, Hervey Allen, Ellen N. La Motte, Mary Borden, Carrie Chapman Catt, Oliver Wendell Holmes, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and many more.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library Of America 2017

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Leonard, Elmore

Summary: Four hardboiled novels from America's modern master of crime fiction, edited by Leonard's long-term employee, researcher and friend.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2016

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McCullers, 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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Murray, Albert

Summary: In his 1970 classic The Omni-Americans, Albert Murray(1916-2013) took aim at protest writers and social scientists who accentuated the pathology of race in American life. Against narratives of marginalization and victimhood, Murray argued that black art and culture, particularly jazz and blues, stand at the very headwaters of the American mainstream, and that much of what is best in American...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016

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Malamud, Bernard

Summary: Raised in Brooklyn, the son of Jewish immigrants, and coming of age in Depression-era New York, Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) began his career writing stories of unsparing precision and power, plumbing the depths of an impoverished urban world. His early, naturalistic style evolved into an inventive, often surreal idiom that blurs reality and fantasy. His first novel, The Natural (1952), is a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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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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Thomson, Virgil

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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Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2014

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Summary: 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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Lardner, Ring

Summary: At the height of the Jazz Age, Ring Lardner was Americas most beloved humorist, equally admired by a popular audience and by literary friends like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson. A sports writer who became a sensation with his comic baseball bestseller, "You Know Me Al," Lardner had a rare gift for inspired nonsense and an ear attuned to the rhythms and hilarious oddities of American...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013

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McCarthy, Mary

Summary: Seventy-five years ago Mary McCarthy provoked a scandal with her electrifying debut novel, The Company She Keeps (1942), announcing the arrival of a major new voice in American literature. A candid, thinly-veiled portrait of the late-1930s New York intellectual scene, its penetrating gaze and creative fusion of life and literature-"mutual plagiarism," she called it--became the hallmark of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017

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Miller, 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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Roth, Philip.

Contents: The counterlife -- The facts: a novelist's autobiography -- Deception -- Patrimony: a true story.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2008

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Stone, Robert

Summary: "This volume brings together three novels by one of the most spellbinding writers of his generation, suspenseful masterworks that brilliantly capture the desperate underside of American life in the 1970s and 80s." -- $c Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2020

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Vonnegut, 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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