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Series
Library of America volume 340
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Library of America presents three environmental classics from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner E. O. Wilson, a masterful writer-scientist whose graceful prose is equal to his groundbreaking discoveries. These books illuminate the evolution and complex beauty of our imperiled ecosystems and the flora, fauna, and civilization they sustain, even as they reveal the personal evolution of one of the greatest scientific minds of our age. Here are the lyrical,...
Series
Library of America volume 289
Publisher
The Library Of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Few Americans appreciate the significance and intensity of America's experience of World War I, the global cataclysm that transformed the modern world. Published to mark the centenary of the American entry into the conflict, [this anthology] brings together a wide range of writings by American participants and observers to tell a ... firsthand story from the outbreak of war in 1914 through the Armistice, the Paris Peace Conference, and the League...
Series
Library of America volume 253-254
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In this first volume of a lavishly produced two-volume collector's edition, The Library of America presents eight enduring masterpieces charting the evolution of the musical from the groundbreaking Show Boat through the genre's glorious mid-century. Based on new research, the complete libretto of each musical is presented in its Broadway opening night version, making these beloved cultural treasures available as never before. The texts are supplemented...
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Series
Library of America volume 314
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The street follows Lutie Johnson, a young, newly single mother, as she struggles to make a better life for her son, Bub. An intimate account of the aspirations and challenges of black, female, working-class life, much of it set on a single block in Harlem, the novel exposes structural inequalities in American society while telling a complex human story, as overpriced housing, lack of opportunity, sexual harassment, and racism conspire to limit Lutie's...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 283
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 345
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Presents an annotated collection of the best short stories by the master storyteller and gifted humorist, including previously uncollected stories and three early tales published for the first time.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 350
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War's aftermath and the legacy of racism in America. Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois's now classic Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction--and of American democracy itself. One of the towering African American thinkers and activists of the twentieth century, Du Bois brought all his intellectual powers to bear on...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 358
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Edited by Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer David W. Blight, this Library of America edition is the largest single-volume selection of Frederick Douglass’s writings ever published, presenting the full texts of thirty-four speeches and sixty-seven pieces of journalism. (A companion Library of America volume, Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies, gathers his three memoirs.) With startling immediacy, these writings chart the evolution of Douglass’s...
Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"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 American life and culture in the period and show how the principles...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 285-286
Publisher
The Library Of America
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 261
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
93) Collected poems
Author
Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"'The poet's measures serve anarchic joy. / The story-teller tells one story: freedom.' Throughout a celebrated career that spanned genres, Ursula K. Le Guin was first and last a poet. This sixth volume in the definitive Library of America Le Guin edition presents for the first time an authoritative gathering of her verse -- from the earliest collection, Wild Angels, through her final publication, So Far So Good, which she delivered to her editor...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In one authoritative volume, here are two landmark story collections by one of America's most beloved authors, plus 27 stellar, speculative, and strange tales from other collections, including 7 restored to print The author of over 400 short stories, Ray Bradbury was a master not only in the science fiction genre, for which he is best known, but also in speculative, horror, and dark fantasy. Here are two of Bradbury's most beloved collections, along...
96) Art in America 1945-1970: writings from the age of abstract expressionism, pop art and minimalism
Series
Library of America volume 259
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An invigorating panorama of art writing from a crucial quarter century, adding vital context with incisive commentaries.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 251
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of America's engagement with Shakespeare, exploring how crucial American issues have been understood through his works, revealing them as a source of inspiration for a range of national writers and artists.
Author
Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Over the course of a career that spanned six decades, the southern novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Spencer established herself as one of the finest literary artists of a generation that included Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty. This definitive volume brings together three remarkable novels: The Voice at the Back Door, her powerful masterpiece about racial politics in the world of Jim Crow Mississippi; the beloved classic...
99) Complete stories
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Series
Library of America volume 298-299
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 230
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English