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James, Henry

Summary: Three major novels from James's early middle years: Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Bostonians. These studies in the exercise of power between the sexes, classes, and cultures portray American women confronting crises of independence and possession. "James beginning to realize the height of his powers." $1 (BWall Street Journal.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1985

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAM

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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCC

Ashbery, 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 ASH

Swenson, 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 SWE

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: 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 WOR

Macdonald, Ross

Summary: "The three novels collected in this second volume in the Library of America Ross Macdonald edition represent for many readers the summit of American crime writing. They remain thrilling for their searing psychological truth-telling, daring flights of narrative invention, and their keenly observed picture of the manners and morals of a particular time and place (Southern California in the early...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAC

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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Adams, 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY ADA

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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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC CHAND

Le Guin, Ursula K.

Summary: This second volume in a definitive two-volume edition gathers Le Guin’s final two Hainish novels, The Word for World Is Forest, in which Earth enslaves another planet to strip its natural resources, and The Telling, the harrowing story of a society which has suppressed its own cultural heritage. Rounding out the volume are seven short stories and the story suite Five Ways to Forgiveness,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEG

Schell, Jonathan

Summary: Brave, eloquent, and controversial, these classic works by Jonathan Schell illuminate the nuclear threat to our civilization, and envision a way forward to peace. In The Fate of the Earth–an international bestseller that inspired the nuclear freeze movement–Schell distills the best available scientific and technical information to imagine the apocalyptic aftereffects of nuclear war. Dramatizing...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1747 SCH

Taylor, Peter

Summary: This second volume presents thirty stories including many of his most ambitious works, among them “Dean of Men,” a monologue delivered by a middle-aged father to his long-haired son about the limits of idealism; “In the Miro District,” a parable of the Old South’s enduring persistence in the New; and “The Old Forest,” one of Taylor’s most celebrated works, the story of a young man who...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAY

Hamilton, Alexander

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 HAM

Sontag, 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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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SON

Le Guin, Ursula K.

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Summary: This first volume in a definitive two-volume edition gathers the first five Hainish novels: Rocannon’s World, in which an ethnologist sent to a bronze-age planet must help defeat an intergalactic enemy; Planet of Exile, the story of human colonists stranded on a planet that is slowly killing them; City of Illusions, which finds a future Earth ruled by the mysterious Shing; and the Hugo and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017

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Malamud, Bernard

Summary: Through his distinctive fusion of modernist daring and traditional storytelling, Bernard Malamud became one of postwar America's most important writers, his work an inspiration for and lasting influence on novelists who have come after him, Cynthia Ozick and Philip Roth most notably among them. The second volume of the Library of America's Malamud edition brings together three novels of the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAL

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovič

Summary: Volume three of a three volume set collecting the works of Russian author Vladimir Nabokov, written after his emigration to the United States, between 1969 and 1974. Includes "Ada," "Transparent Things," and "Look at the Harlequins!"

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1996

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAB

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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC Nabok

Stein, Gertrude

Contents: Q.E.D. -- Three lives -- Portraits and other short works -- The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

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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 STE

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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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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAT

O'Connor, Flannery.

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Contents: Wise blood -- A good man is hard to find -- The violent bear it away -- Everything that rises must converge -- Stories and occasional prose.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1988

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Amer Fic O'Connor

Thoreau, Henry David

Summary: Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here in a single volume. Interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1985

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 THO

James, Henry.

Contents: Contiene:Essays on literature ; American writers ; English writers.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1984

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 James Vol. 1

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