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In just two decades—she died in 1965, at the age of 48—Shirley Jackson created a weird and distinctive world of fiction, one in which a grinning death's head lies just behind the smiling mask of so-c

With over 100,000 copies in print, here, with a new jacket for LincolnA's bicentennial, is the second volume in The Library of AmericaA's acclaimed, comprehensive edition of LincolnA's writings, feat

Collects 367 letters written between 1881 and 1919 in a volume that features his correspondences with such individuals as Rudyard Kipling, Upton Sinclair, and FDR and the texts of four key speeches in

This volume is the most comprehensive collection of Pound's poetry (excepting his long poem The Cantos) and translations ever assembled. The Chinese verse translations are supplemented by Pound's ver

A revealing look inside the mind of one of the great writers of detective fiction includes essays, 24 stories, and an early version The Thin Man.

Paying tribute to an American literary icon, this collection of Longfellow's the best work from his poems, novels, and essays reveals the secret behind his enormous popularity in the 19th century.

Gathers stories and essays prominent in the career of the nineteenth-century American writer.

The only complete anthology of the twentieth-century American modernist's poetry includes more than fifty poems not previously collected, early versions of famous poems, and the most comprehensive sel

The Library of America and editor Garrison Keillor present the best and most extensive Thurber collection ever assembled. Only a book of this scope can do justice to Thurber's extraordinary career an

Gathers the original 1855 edition of "Leaves of Grass," the 1891-92 edition--the last published in Whitman's lifetime--his writings on New York history and the Civil War, and other works, with a chron

The great American reformer of the nineteenth century recounts his life from a slave to a leader in the movements for emancipation and black labor.

Artist, writer, botanist, gardener, naturalist, intrepid wilderness explorer, and self-styled "philosophical pilgrim," William Bartram (1739-1823) was an extraordinary figure in eighteenth-century Am

Book reviews and articles accompany the stories of an artist's decline, a dentist's greed, and a clash between California ranchers and the railroad monopoly

Gathers all of Poe's poetry, tales, short stories, and general essays in chronological order

Novels and stories of the Alaskan Klondike express London's concerns with the struggle for survival, the reassertion of the primitive, and regeneration through conflict

An unprecedented single-volume edition of one of America's greatest poets, released to celebrate his bicentennialBest known today for his novels and stories, the author of Moby-Dick was a devoted and

A delightful keepsake edition of the incomparable wisdom of America's greatest poet, distilled from his fascinating late-in-life conversations with Horace Traubel.What is essential in life? How do we

Return to the nation's founding to rediscover the dramatic original debates--on presidential power, religious liberty, foreign corruption, and more--that still shape our world todayWhen the Constituti

The definitive Library of America edition of Lincoln's essential writings, now in a deluxe two-volume boxed setAbraham Lincoln, America's heroic Civil War president, was also the greatest writer ever

For the first time, a deluxe collector's edition of the pathbreaking novels and stories that reinvented science fiction, with new introductions by the author.In such visionary masterworks as the

THE ESSENTIAL PLAYLIST OF GREAT WRITING ABOUT THE MUSIC THAT ROCKED AMERICA Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution thr

In the second volume of the definitive edition of her fiction, three novels by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation, including the landmark classic The Group.In Mary McCarthy's mo

The inaugural volume of Library of America’s Ursula K. Le Guin edition gathers her complete Orsinian writings, enchanting, richly imagined historical fiction collected here for the first tim

In 1855, a small volume appeared, self-published by a failed Brooklyn journalist and carpenter: twelve untitled poems and a preface announcing the author's aims. A commercial failure, this book was th

For the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, The Library of America re-issues the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman in a handsome, newly designed case. An ailing Grant wrote his

H. L. Mencken was the most provocative and influential journalist and cultural critic in twentieth-century America. In this volume and a companion, The Library of America presents all six series of Pr

"Emerson's prose is his triumph, both as eloquence and as insight. After Shakespeare, it matches anything else in the language." -Harold Bloom Here are Ralph Waldo Emerson's classic essays, including

"Mark Twain," William Faulkner once observed, "was the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs." In this unique collection scores of these literary legatees from the U.S. and a

"Alone among American Presidents, it is possible to imagine Lincoln, grown up in a different milieu, becoming a distinguished writer of a not merely political kind."--Edmund WilsonRanging from finely

For the first time in one volume, Pete Hamill presents five great books that demonstrate A. J. LieblingA's extraordinary vitality, humor, and versatility as a writer. Named the best sports book of all

Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz, editors James Merrill described Elizabeth Bishop's poems as "more wryly radiant, more touching, more unaffectedly intelligent than any written in our lifetime" and called her "our greatest national treasure." Robert Lowell said, "I enjoy her poems more than anybody else's." Long before a wider public was aware of Bishop's work, her fellow poets expressed astonished admiration of her formal rigor, fiercely observant eye, emotional intimacy, and sometimes eccentric flights of imagination. Today she is recognized as one of America's great poets of the 20th century. This unprecedented collection offers a full-scale presentation of a writer of startling originality, at once passionate and reticent, adventurous and perfectionist. It presents all the poetry that Bishop published in her lifetime, in such classic volumes as North & South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel, and Geography III. In addition it contains an extensive selection of un_published po

The poetry of early America is seen afresh in this groundbreaking new volume in The Library of America's acclaimed American Poetry anthology series, charting its flowering over a span of almost two c

A first part of a two-volume collection of essays by a forefront American critic and social chronicler includes pieces written during the 1920s and 1930s and includes Axel's Castle, The Shores of Ligh

Here, in one volume for the first time, are the most important works of Henry David Thoreau, America's greatest nature writer and a political thinker of worldwide influence. A landmark in American lit

A final installment of a four-part collection of the classic American writer's works features his later novels, including The Wayward Bus, Burning Bright, Sweet Thursday, and The Winter of Our Discont

A definitive collection of writings by the complicated American poet includes his complete body of poetic and prose works as well as a generous selection of his letters, in a volume that offers insigh

This Library of America volume supplements the classic pieces from Agee on Film with previously uncollected writings on Ingrid Bergman, the Marx Brothers, Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, Vittorio De Sic