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Library of America volume 40-42
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
©1988
Language
English
Description
A wire for Live, the Web, thirst, recklessness, warnings, fog, bread and butter, Bound East for Cardiff, aAbortion, the movie man, servitude, the sniper, the personal eqauation, before breakfast, now I ask you, in the zone, ile, the long voyage home, the moon of the caribbees, the robe, beyond the horizon, shell shock, the dreamy kid, where the cross is made, the straw, Chris Christophersen, gold, anna Christie, and the Emperor Jones.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever written on America. It remains the most often quoted book about the United States, not only because it has something to interest and please everyone, but...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 72
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Series
Library of America volume 333
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate...
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Series
Library of America volume 118
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
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Series
Library of America volume 180
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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Series
Language
English
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Description
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...
8) Plays
Author
Series
Library of America volume 119-120
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
9) Dom Casmurro
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson's critically acclaimed translations of Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas and The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis introduced a new generation of readers to one of Brazil's most groundbreaking authors. Hailed as "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America" (Susan Sontag), Machado's genius is on full display in this fresh translation of the 1899 classic Dom Casmurro. In his supposed memoir, Bento...
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Series
Library of America volume 81
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 60-61
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 90
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Selection of writings and drawings by American humorist James Thurber, presenting a diverse mix of literary parodies, eccentric portraits, stories of domestic warfare, reminiscences, and protests.
Series
Library of America volume 94
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 117
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
15) Complete novels
Author
Series
Library of America volume 101
Publisher
Distributed by Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
16) Tales
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Series
Library of America volume 155
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 132
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 102
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Penguin Putnam
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
"Stories, Essays, and Memoir" contains all of Welty's collected short stories, her first book, "A Curtain of Green and Other Stories" (1941), stories based on her travels, and the ever-popular memoir, "One Writer's Beginnings" (1984).
20) Autobiographies
Author
Series
Library of America volume 68
Publisher
Library of America
Language
English
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