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A.J. Liebling: The Sweet Science and Other Writings by A J Liebling
Category: Science | Series: Library of America
For the first time in one volume, Pete Hamill presents five great books that demonstrate A. J. Liebling's extraordinary vitality, humor, and versatility as a writer. Named the best sports book of all time by "Sports Illustrated" in 2002, " The Sweet Science "(1956) is a lively and idiosyncratic portrait ...Show more
Alexander Hamilton: Writings (LOA #129) by Alexander Hamilton; Joanne Freeman (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Library of America Founders Collection
Alexander Hamilton, the subject of Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash hit Broadway musical, comes to life in his own words in this critically acclaimed collection, which also includes conflicting eyewitness accounts of the duel with Aaron Burr that led to his death. One of the most vivid, influential, and contr ...Show more
Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs by Ambrose Bierce; S. T. Joshi (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Library of America (Hardcover)
A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldi ...Show more
American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith (the Library of America) by Red Smith
Category: Sport | Series: Library of America
Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith was the most widely read sportswriter of the last century and the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. From the 1940s to the 1980s, his nationally syndicated columns for the "New York Herald Tribune" and later for "The New York Times" traversed the world of sports ...Show more
American Poetry: the Twentieth Century Vol. 1 (LOA #115) - Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker by Robert Hass (Compiled by); John Hollander (Compiled by); Carolyn Kizer (Compiled by); Nathaniel Mackey (Compiled by); Marjorie Perloff (Compiled by)
Category: Poetry | Series: Library of America: the American Poetry Anthology Ser.
In the years between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of World War II, American poetry was transformed, producing a body of work whose influence was felt throughout the world. Now for the first time the landmark two-volume Library of America anthology of twentieth-century poetry throug ...Show more
American Poetry: the Twentieth Century Vol. 2 (LOA #116) - E. E. Cummings to May Swenson by Robert Hass (Compiled by); John Hollander (Compiled by); Carolyn Kizer (Compiled by); Nathaniel Mackey (Compiled by); Marjorie Perloff (Compiled by)
Category: Poetry | Series: Library of America: the American Poetry Anthology Ser.
"The editing is more than brilliant- It is nearly unimaginable how the Library of America team managed to do so much so well. . . . Every possible kind of poem is here in its best examples. No one has ever done a better anthology of modern American poetry, or even come close." -Talk This second volume ...Show more
Art in America 1945-1970 - Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism: (Library of America #259) by Various
Category: Art and Design | Series: Library of America
Experience the creative explosion that transformed American art, in the words of the artists, writers, and critics who were there: In the quarter century after the end of World War II, a new generation of painters, sculptors, and photographers transformed the face of American art and shifted the center ...Show more
Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1944-1961 by Arthur Miller; Tony Kushner (Ed)
Category: Fiction | Series: Library of America Arthur Miller Edition Ser.
In the inaugural volume of its collected edition of Miller's plays, The Library of America gathers the works from the 1940s and 1950s that electrified theatergoers and established Miller as one of the indispensable voices of the postwar era. Among the plays included are All My Sons, the story of an indu ...Show more
Barbara Tuchman: The Guns of August & the Proud Tower by Margaret MacMillan
Category: Military | Series: Library of America
Writing with a clarity, grace, and novelistic sweep rare among historians, Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) distilled the complex interplay of personalities and events into gripping narratives that fuse rigorous scholarship with elegant literary art. An astute portraitist, she brilliantly laid bare the al ...Show more
Carson Mccullers: Complete Novels (LOA #128) - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / the Ballad of the Sad Café / the Member of the Wedding / Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers
Category: Classics | Series: Library of America Carson Mccullers Edition Ser.
When The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was published in 1940, Carson McCullers was instantly recognized as one of the most promising writers of her generation. The novels that followed established her as a master of Southern Gothic. This Library of America volume collects McCullers's complete novels for the ...Show more
Cecilia Valdes: Or El Angel Hill by Cirilo Villaverde
Category: Fiction | Series: Library of Latin America
Cecilia Valdes is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Written in 1882 by Cirilo Villaverde in exile in New York City, but set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel recounts a story of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. The heroine of the nov ...Show more
Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings by Raymond Chandler
Category: Fiction | Series: Library of America Raymond Chandler Edition Ser.
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. ...Show more