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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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SINWilliams, Tennessee
Contents: Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer. Sweet bird of youth. Period of adjustment. The night of the iguana. The eccentricities of a nightingale. The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. The mutilated. Kingdom of earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. Out cry. Vieux Carré. A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000
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Summary: Profiles the works of Tennessee Williams and provides information on his life and writing career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.54 WILDreiser, Theodore
Summary: The author's classic vision of the dark side of American life looks at the failings of the American dream, in the story of the rise and fall of Clyde Griffiths, who sacrifices everything in his desperate quest for success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Amer Fic DreiserCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DREDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
Summary: A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War's aftermath and the legacy of racism in America. Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois's now classic Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction--and of American democracy itself. One of the towering African American thinkers and activists of the twentieth century,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.81 DU BKaufman, George S. (George Simon)
Summary: Collects plays written by George Kaufman in collaboration with other writers, including "Dinner at Eight," "Animal Crackers," "Stage Door," and "You Can't Take It With You."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.52 KAUAgee, James
Contents: Agee on film :Rreviews and comments -- Uncollected film writing -- The night of the hunter -- Journalism and book reviews.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 AGEAgee, James
Contents: Let us now praise famous men -- The morning watch -- A death in the family -- Stories: Death in the desert -- They that sow in sorrow shall reap -- A mother's tale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 AGEHearn, 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 HEASummary: " ... [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 CIVBishop, Elizabeth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 BISRoosevelt, Theodore
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.911 ROORoth, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTRoth, Philip.
Summary: A reader's edition of key writings by the acclaimed author includes the National Book Award-winning "Goodbye, Columbus" and the trenchant psychological portrait, "Letting Go."
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTLovecraft, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVSteinbeck, John
Summary: A final installment of a four-part collection of the classic American writer's works features his later novels, including "The Wayward Bus," "Burning Bright," "Sweet Thursday," and "The Winter of Our Discontent," in a volume that is complemented by his final published account, "Travels with Charley."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STERoosevelt, Theodore
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOHammett, Dashiell
Summary: Presents five novels by Dashiell Hamilton, all published between 1929 and 1934.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC HAMMEStein, Gertrude
Contents: Stanzas in meditation -- Lectures in America -- The geographical history of America -- Ida -- Brewsie and Willie -- Other works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 STESummary: From A. Philip Randolph's defiant call in 1941 for African Americans to march on Washington to Alice Walker in 1973, Reporting civil rights presents firsthand accounts of the revolutionary events that overthrew segregation in the United States. This two-volume anthology brings together for the first time nearly 200 newspaper and magazine reports and book excerpts, and features 151 writers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 REPAlcott, Louisa May
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCContents: v. 1. Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker -- v. 2. E.E. Cummings to May Swenson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.508 AMERSummary: From A. Philip Randolph's defiant call in 1941 for African Americans to march on Washington to Alice Walker in 1973, Reporting civil rights presents firsthand accounts of the revolutionary events that overthrew segregation in the United States. This two-volume anthology brings together for the first time nearly 200 newspaper and magazine reports and book excerpts, and features 151 writers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2003