Summary: "The forthcoming LOA collection, edited by distinguished poet and scholar of American poetry Kevin Young, will embrace the entire wide-ranging tradition of African American poetry from its eighteenth-century beginnings to the present, and will be representative of many styles, schools, periods, and regions. Familiar poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and other...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 2020

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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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Summary: This volume contains writings drawn from letters, diaries, newspaper articles, public documents, contemporary narratives, and private memoranda from more than 70 participants--American and British, Patriot and Loyalist, military and civilian. The writings describe the most dramatic events of the War of Independence: the early battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, the failed invasion...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2001

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Summary: "For too long, African Americans have been left out of the story of the nation's founding, their voices absent from the memory and celebration of the creation of the American republic. Black Writers of the Founding Era--by far the richest and most expansive anthology of its kind ever assembled--restores these voices. The writings gathered here reveal the complexity and dynamism of African...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023

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Contents: The postman always rings twice / James M. Cain -- They shoot horses, don't they / Horace McCoy -- Thieves like us / Edward Anderson -- The big clock / Kenneth Fearing -- Nightmare alley / William Lindsay Gresham -- I married a dead man / Cornell Woolrich.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997

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Summary: This collection of 80 dramatic firsthand writings by Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and others brings to life the struggle for racial justice from the Civil War to World War. A vital resource for the teaching of the history of race in America that traces the ascendency of white supremacy after Reconstruction--and the outspoken resistance to it led by Black Americans and their allies. W.E.B....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2024

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Summary: Brings together the words of over 60 writers, from Twain's earliest reviews to today, probing the many facets of his incomparable humor, his revolutionary use of vernacular language, his exploration of the realities of American life, and his fearless opposition to the injustices and outrages of an imperialistic age.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Classics of the United States, Inc. 2010

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Summary: "Included are narratives by James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (1772) and Olaudah Equiano (1789), who were taken from Africa as children and brought across the Atlantic to British North America. The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) provides unique insight into the man who led the deadliest slave uprising in American history. The widely read narratives by the fugitive slaves Frederick Douglass...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000

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Adams, Henry

Summary: The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gift for everyone.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1983

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Agee, 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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Agee, 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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Berry, Wendell

Summary: This first volume collects thirty-three essays from nine different books, including his first, The Long-Legged House (1969), What are People For? (1990), with its still provocative essay "Why I am Not Going to Buy a Computer," and the complete text of his now classic The Unsettling of America (1975), whose argument about the enormous ecological, economic, and human costs of industrial...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019

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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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Bowles, Paul

Contents: The sheltering sky -- Let it come down -- The spider's house.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2002

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Chandler, Raymond

Summary: Later Novels and Other Writings begins with The Lady in the Lake (1943). Written during the war, the story takes Marlowe out of the seamy L.A. streets to the deceptive tranquility of the surrounding mountains, as the search for a businessman's missing wife expands into an elegy of loneliness and loss. The darker tone typical of Chandler's later fiction is evident in The Little Sister (1949), in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995

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Cooper, James Fenimore

Summary: With his second novel, The Spy:A Tale of the Neutral Ground, in 1821, James Cooper (the Fenimore would come later) found his true voice and what became his most enduring subject matter: the history of his young nation, born of the clash between Old World and New. Set largely in Westchester County--site of the real-life intrigues of Benedict Arnold and Major John Andre--The Spy traces the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018

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Crane, Hart

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2006

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Edwards, Jonathan

Contents: A faithful narrative of the surprising work of God -- The distinguishing marks of a work of the Spirit of God -- Some thoughts concerning the present revival of religion in New-England -- Sermons. Justification by faith alone ; Pressing into the kingdom of God ; God amongst his people ; A city on a hill ; Zeal an essential virtue of a Christian ; Sinners in the hands of an angry God ; The curse...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013

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Faulkner, William

Summary: "William Faulkner called the short story "the most demanding form after poetry." The fifty-four stories gathered here show him not only mastering the form but revolutionizing its possibilities, distilling an epic breadth of vision into narratives that conjure an intimate sense of place and the abiding presence of history and legend. Library of America caps its Faulkner edition with this volume...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023

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Faulkner, William

Contents: As I lay dying -- Sanctuary -- Light in August -- Pylon.

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

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Faulkner, William

Contents: Absalom, Absalom! -- The unvanquished -- If I forget thee, Jerusalem -- The hamlet.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1990

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