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The library of America volume 147
Classics of World Literature
Vintage classics
Perennial library volume PL 1522
Classics of World Literature
Vintage classics
Perennial library volume PL 1522
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An influential study of America's national government, egalitarian ideals, and character offers reflections on the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals and provides insight into the rewards and responsibilities of a democratic government.
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This collection of essays by scholar-activist W.E.B. Du Bois is a masterpiece in the African American canon. Du Bois, arguably the most influential African American leader of the early twentieth century, offers insightful commentary on black history, racism, and the struggles of black Americans following emancipation. In his groundbreaking work, the author presciently writes that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,"...
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The Library of America volume 66-67
Pub. Date
c1993
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In nineteenth-century America, poetry was, part of everyday life, as familiar as a hymn, a love song, a patriotic exhortation. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveals the vigor and diversity of a tradition embracing solitary visionaries and congenial storytellers, humorists and dissidents, songwriters and philosophers. These two volumes reassess America's poetic legacy with a comprehensive sweep that no previous anthology has attempted. This...
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Library of America volume 68
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©1994
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Born enslaved, Frederick Douglass educated himself, escaped, and made himself one of the greatest leaders in American history. Here in this Library of America volume are collected his three autobiographical narratives, now recognized as classics of both American history and American literature. Writing with the eloquence and fierce intelligence that made him a brilliantly effective spokesman for the abolition of slavery and equal rights, Douglass...
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Library of America volume 72
Pub. Date
1994
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Steinbeck here joins the Library of America's elite class of writers. This first collection in a planned series of Steinbeck titles includes The Paradise of Heaven, To a God Unknown, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, and Of Mice and Men. The volume also includes textual notes by scholar Robert DeMott and a chronology of the author's life.
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Library of America volume 76
Pub. Date
c1995
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"I know not whether any man in the world", wrote John Adams in 1805, "has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs for the last thirty years than Tom Paine". The impassioned democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, Paine wrote for his mass audience with vigor, clarity, and "common sense". This is the first major new edition of his work in 50 years, and the most comprehensive single-volume collection of his writings available. Emphasizing...
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Library of America volume 75
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c1995
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A selection of writings on the culture and traditions of African-Americans, discussing folklore, religion, and the author's personal experiences.
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The Library of America volume 80
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©1995
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With humor, along with an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling details of dress and behavior, Raymond Chandler created a distinctive fictional universe out of the dark side of sunlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both crime writing and the American language.
Written during the war, The Lady in the Lake (1943) takes Philip Marlowe out of the seamy L.A. streets to the deceptive tranquility of the surrounding mountains, as the search...
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Library of America volume 79
Pub. Date
c1995
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A collection of mystery, crime stories set in a modern cityscape, includes the first three novels featuring Chandler's great private eye Philip Marlowe, whose tough, disillusioned and sensitive.
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The library of America volume 86
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c1996
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The second volume in the Library of America’s authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel had an electrifying impact upon publication in 1939, unleashing a political storm with its vision of America’s dispossessed struggling for survival. It continues to exert a powerful influence on American culture, and has inspired artists...
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Library of America volume 88
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c1996
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Volume two of a three volume set collecting the works of Russian author Vladimir Nabokov, written after his emigration to the United States between 1955 and 1962.
Lolita (1955), Nabokov's single most famous work, is one of the most controversial and widely read books of its time. Funny, satiric, poignant, filled with allusions to earlier American writers, it is the "confession" of a middle-aged, sophisticated European emigre's passionate obsession...
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Library of America volume 89
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[1996]
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Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969), the longest of Nabokov's novels, is a witty and parodic account of a man's lifelong love for his sister. All of his favorite themes and most characteristic techniques are woven into this culminating work of Nabokov's imagination. Transparent Things (1972) is a haunting novella of the anguished life of Hugh Person, a young American editor and proofreader: his marriage, the murder of his wife, and his lone journey...
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Library of America volume 87
Pub. Date
c1996
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Volume one of a three volume set collecting the works of Russian author Vladimir Nabokov, written after his emigration to the United States in 1940.
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Library of America volume 90
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℗♭1996
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Gathers previously uncollected cartoons and humorous stories
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The library of America volume 96
Pub. Date
c1997
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"Here are all of Stevens' published books of poetry, side-by-side for the first time with the haunting lyrics of his later years and early work that traces the development of his art. From the rococo inventiveness of Harmonium, his first volume (including such classics as "Sunday Morning," "Peter Quince at the Clavier," and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"), through "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," "Esthetique du Mal," "The Auroras of Autumn,"...
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The Library of America volume 92
Pub. Date
c1997
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Collects some of the most significant writings of naturalist John Muir, in which he discusses his life in Scotland and America, his fascination with the natural world, his spiritual awakening in the Sierra mountains, and other highlights of his career.
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Library of America volume 93
Pub. Date
1997
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In this volume the Library of America offers the most complete literary portrait ever published of Nathanael West. Along with the four novels for which he is famous, this authoritative collection gathers his work in other genres, including stories, poetry, essays and plays, film scripts and treatments, and letters.
When West died in a California highway accident in 1940 at the age of thirty-seven, his originality and brilliance were little known outside...
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The library of America volume 101
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©1998
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A collection of fiction stories by Eudora Welty that portray life in the southern Mississippi area.
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The library of America volume 97
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©1998
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Contains three novels and a collection of short stories by American author James Baldwin.
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