Presents the restored texts of four novels written by American author William Faulkner in the years between 1942 and 1954, based on his manuscripts, typescripts, and proof sheets, including "Go Down, Moses"; "Intruder in the Dust"; "Requiem for a Nun"; and "A Fable."

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...

A collection of the major poetry, dramatic writings, and prose of American poet, Robert Frost.

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...

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...

A collection of writings and drawings by writer, botanist, gardener, naturalist, and wilderness explorer William Bartram.

"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,"...

A collection of over 440 letters, orders, addresses, diaries, and other personal and public documents written by George Washington over the course of five decades, including writings from the Revolutionary War years, and his two terms as president.

A collection of fiction stories by Eudora Welty that portray life in the southern Mississippi area.