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Library of America volume 39
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
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Library of America volume 25
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Tells the stories of a mourning family remembering its past, a vicious gangster, a young pregnant woman searching for her child's father, and barnstorming pilots at an air show.
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The Library of America volume 74
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
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The Library of America volume 101
Publisher
Distributed by Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Author
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The Library of America volume 79
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Author
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The Library of America volume 40-42
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
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Series
Language
English
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On its 150th anniversary, four acclaimed authors offer personal reflections on their lifelong engagement with Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of girlhood and growing up. For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong lifelong personal engagement with Alcott's novel--what it has meant to them and why it still matters. Each takes...
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The Library of America volume 115-116
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
12) Walden
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Henry D. Thoreau (1817–62) was an American author, naturalist, poet, and philosopher. He wrote many essays and books, including Civil Disobedience, Walking, and The Maine Woods, among others. John Updike (1932–2009) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and poet.
One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded...
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The Library of America volume 119, 120
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
14) Novels
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Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
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Language
English
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One of the greatest African American leaders and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote with unsurpassed eloquence on almost all the major issues confronting the American people during his life from the abolition of slavery to women's rights, from the Civil War to lynching, from American patriotism to Black Nationalism. Between 1950 and 1975, Philip S. Foner collected the most important of Douglass's hundreds...
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The Library of America volume 104-105
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Volume 1 includes interviews and reportage by Neil Sheehan, David Halberstam, Russell Baker, Meg Greenfield, Martha Gellhorn, Ward Just, Tom Wolfe, Mary McCarthy, Seymour Hersh, Francine du Plessix and others.
Volume 2 includes reportage by Seymour Hersh, Francine du Plessix Gray, John Saar, Gloria Emerson, Sydney Schanberg, Flora Lewis, Peter Arnett, and others.
Series
Library of America volume 333
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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