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"Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me." With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester wears a scarlet "A" upon her breast, the sign of adultery visible to all. Under an assumed name, her husband begins his vindictive search for her lover, determined to expose what Hester is equally determined to protect. Defiant and proud, Hester witnesses the degradation of...
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©1982
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This Library of America volume of Jack London’s best-known work is filled with thrilling action, an intuitive feeling for animal life, and a sense of justice that often works itself out through violence. London enjoyed phenomenal popularity in his own time (which included the depressions of the 1890s and the beginnings of World War One), and he remains one of the most widely read of all American writers.
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Library of America volume 10
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℗♭1983
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Here in one volume are all five of Nathaniel Hawthorne's world-famous novels. "The House of the Seven Gables" moves across 150 years from an ancestral crime condoned by the Puritan theocracy to a new beginning in the bustling and democratic Jacksonian era. Hawthorne's masterpiece, "The Scarlet Letter," is a dramatic allegory of the social consequences of adultery and the subversive force of personal desire in a community of laws. "The Blithedale Romance"...
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The Library of America volume 18
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©1984
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Contains a comprehensive anthology of Stephen Crane's novels, short stories, journalism, war correspondence, and two books of poetry and includes "The Red Badge of Courage," "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets," and short stories such as "The Open Boat," "The Blue Hotel," and "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky."
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The Library of America volume 29
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c1985
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Presents three novels written by Henry James in the middle part of his career, each featuring a female lead character who is faced with competing choices.
8) Writings
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[1986]
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"Historian, sociologist, novelist, editor, and political activist, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was the most gifted and influential black intellectual of his time. This Library of America volume presents his essential writings, covering the full span of a restless life dedicated to the struggle for racial justice."--The publisher's website
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The library of America volume 48
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©1990
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Contains the complete texts of four novels written by American author William Faulkner between 1936 and 1940, each of which explores the struggles of characters in the South. Includes notes and a chronology of the author's life.
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The Library of America volume 59
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c1992
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Contains two of Sinclair Lewis's most famous novels and includes a chronology of the author's life and career.
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Library of America volume 57
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c1992
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This volume is an anthology of short stories and poetry written by American author Willa Cather (1873-1947). She achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Antonia, and The Song of the Lark. This book includes the short-story collections "Youth and the Bright Medusa," "Obscure Destinies," and "The Old Beauty and Others," the novellas "Alexander's Bridge" and "My Mortal Enemy," occasional...
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The Library of America volume 66-67
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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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The Library of America volume 70
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c1994
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Contains Emerson's published poetry, plus selections of his unpublished poetry from journals and notebooks, and some of his translations of poetry from other languages, notably Dante's La vita nuova.
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The Library of America volume 71
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c1994
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The prince and the pauper: When young Edward VI of England and Tom Canty, a poor boy who looks just like him, exchange places, each learns a valuable lesson about the other's very different station in life in sixteenth-century England. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court: A blow to the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom by organizing a school system, constructing telephone lines, and inventing...
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The library of America volume 96
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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
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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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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.
20) Plays, 1957-1980
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The Library of America volume 120
Pub. Date
2000
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Profiles the works of Tennessee Williams and provides inf ormation on his life and writing career.
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