Twain, 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: " ... [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 CIVRoth, Philip.
Contents: American pastoral -- I married a communist -- The human stain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTMcCarthy, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCWard, 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 WARJackson, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACLeonard, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEORoth, Philip
Summary: "Throughout a unparalleled literary career that includes two National Book Awards (Goodbye, Columbus, 1959 and Sabbath's Theater, 1995), the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (American Pastoral, 1997), the National Book Critics Circle Award (The Counterlife, 1986), and the National Humanities Medal (awarded by President Obama in 2011), among many other honors, Philip Roth has produced an extraordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 ROTBellow, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELOlmsted, Frederick Law
Summary: The biggest and best single-volume collection ever published of the fascinating and wide-ranging writings of a vitally important nineteenth century cultural figure whose work continues to shape our world today. Seaman, farmer, abolitionist, journalist, administrator, reformer, conservationist, and without question America’s foremost landscape architect and urban planner, Frederick Law Olmsted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712 OLMEmerson, Ralph Waldo
Summary: With Selected journals 1820-1842 and its companion volume Selected journals 1841-1877, the Library of America presents the most ample and comprehensive nonspecialist edition of Emerson's work ever published--one that retains the original order in which he composed his thoughts and preserves the range of his style in long, uninterrupted passages, but without the daunting critical apparatus of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 EMEStein, 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: Following its acclaimed three-volume edition of the novels of science fiction master Philip K. Dick, The Library of America now presents a two-volume anthology of nine groundbreaking works from the golden age of the modern science fiction novel, works by turns satiric, adventurous, incisive, and hauntingly lyrical. Long unnoticed or dismissed by the literary establishment, these visionary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMEBishop, 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 BISJames, Henry
Summary: "This volume, the sixth and final in The Library of America's edition of the complete novels of Henry James, brings together two masterpieces of his extraordinary late period--The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904)--as well as his last extended narrative work, The Outcry (1911), a short comic novel of social manners."The idea for The Ambassadors came from James's friend William Dean...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMAdams, John
Summary: "... includes the complete newspaper exchange between Novanglus (Adams) and Massachusettensis (loyalist Daniel Leonard), as well as extensive diary excerpts and characteristically frank personal letters"--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 ADASummary: "Published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, this anthology charts America's long, heroic confrontation with its most poisonous evil."--Publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 AMEAnderson, Sherwood
Summary: Collects the complete works published by the author during his lifetime as well as a selection of previously uncollected and unpublished stories, in a volume that explores themes of small-town life, moments of change, and sexual awakening.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDDreiser, 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 Fiction, Call number: FIC DREKerouac, Jack
Summary: Poetry was at the center of Jack Kerouac's sense of mission as a writer. This landmark edition brings together for the first time all Kerouac's major poetic works--Mexico City Blues, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, Book of Blues, Poems All Sizes, Old Angel Midnight, Book of Haikus--along with a rich assortment of his uncollected poems, six published here for the first time. He wrote...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 KERAgee, 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 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