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American drama (Tragedy) 20th century American literature 20th century Journalism United States History 20th century Morocco Social life and customs Fiction Political oratory United States Short stories Speeches, addresses, etc., American United States History Sources United States Politics and government Sources Williams, Tennessee 1911-1983Lewis, Sinclair
Summary: Contains the full text to three novels by satirist Sinclair Lewis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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 REPSummary: 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 REPMiller, Arthur
Summary: A collection of some of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's most definitive works includes "All My Sons," "Death of a Salesman," "The Crucible," "A View from the Bridge," and five additional plays.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.52 MILRoosevelt, Theodore
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOBowles, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWSummary: "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 AMESteinbeck, John
Contents: The moon is down -- Cannery Row -- The pearl -- East of Eden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEBowles, Paul
Summary: Collects the author's short stories, a novella titled "Up Above the World," and a travel book first published in 1963.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWDos Passos, John
Summary: "John Dos Passos traveled widely in Europe, the Middle East, Mexico, and the United States, witnessing many of the tumultuous political, social, and cultural events of the early 20th century and recording his changing response to them. This volume collects the vibrant and insightful travel books and essays he wrote at the same time he was publishing his fictional masterpieces Three Soldiers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5208 DOSSummary: "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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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.008 AFRJames, Henry
Summary: Collects four complete novels of Henry James, depicting murder, jealousy, possessiveness, power, divorce, friendship, and innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMSummary: 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 AMEAudubon, John James
Contents: Mississippi River journal -- From 1826 journal -- From Ornithological biography -- Delineations of American scenery and manners -- Missouri River journals -- Other writings -- Letters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.092 AUDDick, Philip K.
Summary: The third and final volume of an overview of the author's work features novels written during his later years, including "A Maze of Death" and "The Divine Invasion," when the themes of religious revelation became predominant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Williams, 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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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: 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 American 2000Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.508 AMERWilliams, Tennessee
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 WILLongfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.3 LONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: SC Longfellow 2000Maxwell, William
Contents: Bright center of heaven -- They came like swallows -- Stories 1938-1945: Homecoming ; Actual thing ; Young Francis Whitehead ; Haller's second home ; Patterns of love -- Folded leaf -- Time will darken it -- Stories 1952-1956: Trojan women ; Pilgrimage ; What every boy should know ; French scarecrow -- Writer as illusionist -- Appendix: Introduction to They came like swallows ; Preface to Time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXPowell, Dawn.
Contents: Dance night -- Come back to Sorrento -- Turn, magic wheel -- Angels on toast -- A time to be born.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2001