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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
Faulkner: Novels 1926-1929 by William Faulkner
Category: Fiction | Series: Library of America (Hardcover)
Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters by Hart Crane
Category: Poetry | Series: Library of America (Hardcover)
No American poet has so swiftly and decisively transformed the course of poetry as Hart Crane. In his haunted, brief life, Crane fashioned a distinctively modern idiom that fused the ornate rhetoric of the Elizabethans, the ecstatic enigmas of Rimbaud, and the prophetic utterances and cosmic sympathy of ...Show more
John O'Hara: Stories by John O'Hara
Category: Fiction | Series: Library of America (Hardcover)
Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Little House Books, Volume One: Little House in the Big Woods/Farmer Boy/Little House on the Prairie/On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Category: Children's | Series: Library of America (Hardcover)
Originally published from 1932 to 1943, Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" books are classics of children's literature, beloved by millions. But readers who last enjoyed them as children may be astonished at the quiet poetry of Wilder's prose and the force and poignancy of her portrait of the lives o ...Show more
Philip Roth: Novels 1967-1972 by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction | Series: Library of America (Hardcover)
Volume 2 in what will be the definitive 8-volume collector's edition of Philip Roth's fiction includes Portnoy's Complaint, Our Gang, When She Was Good, and The Breast.
Philip Roth: Novels, 1973-1977 by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction | Series: Library of America (Hardcover)
This third volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works presents three markedly different novels that together trace a crucial period in the bold evolution of one of America's indispensable novelists. InThe Great American Novel(1973), a hilarious, bizarre, stra ...Show more
Philip Roth: Novels and Stories 1959-1962 by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction | Series: Library of America (Hardcover)
Here for the first time in an authoritative two-volume reader's edition are the fresh social observations contained within Roth's six books: "Goodbye Columbus, Letting Go, When She Was Good, Portnoy's Complaint, Our Gang," and "The Breast."
Philip Roth: Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue 1979-1985 by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction | Series: Library of America (Hardcover)
For the last half century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and redefined its possibilities, leading the critic Harold Bloom to proclaim Roth "our foremost novelist since Faulkner." Roth's comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable truths, an ...Show more
The Civil War: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It by Stephen Sears
Category: History | Series: Library of America (Hardcover)
The Library of America's ambitious four-volume series continues with this volume that traces events from January 1862 to January 1863, an unforgettable portrait of the crucial year that turned a secessionist rebellion into a war of emancipation. Including eleven never-before- published pieces, here are ...Show more
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