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
A single-volume selection of the influential Objectivist poet's works includes several of his short pieces as well as excerpts from his twenty-four-part, "A," in a collection that offers insight into
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 th
A collection of original and definitive poems, published in conjunction with the nineteenth-century American poet's receipt of The Poetry Foundation's first Neglected Masters Award, offers insight int
A selection of writings from the philosopher, statesman, scientist, and civic leader includes articles, satires, essays, personal correspondence, letters to the press, and pamphlets.
An authoritative anthology of Civil War poetry and songs includes pieces by such writers as Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and John Greenleaf Whittier, in a collection that reflects on such topics as
An authoritative analysis of key works offers insight into the poet's influential achievements, intimate style, and blending of both local and ancient inspirations, in a volume that covers his hard-ed
A devout Quaker who became a passionate poetic spokesman for the antislavery movement, John Greenleaf Whittier (1807A-92) was one of the most beloved American poets of his era. In the years before th
Washington Irving embarked on a trilogy of books on the American West that would prove decisive in molding his compatriots' conception of the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Pacific Northw
A tremendous bestseller when it was published in 1925, An American Tragedy is the culmination of Theodore Dreiser's elementally powerful fictional art. Taking as his point of departure a notorious mu
A lively selection by J. D. McClatchy, the distinguished poet, critic, and editor, casts Millay's career in a new light. Here are familiar favorites alongside neglected gems: translations, a verse pl
Rejecting his era's genteel hypocrisy about miscegenation, lynching, and "passing," Charles W. Chesnutt broke new ground in American literature with his innovative explorations of racial identity and
The great American founding father speaks from the past in own voice through the 170 letters, speeches, essays, reports, and other documents collected here.
One of the Library of America's editions of historic writings, this is a collection of papers from the Revolutionary period. It starts with Paul Revere's own account of his famous ride in 1775 and end
A single-volume collection of essential writings features Thoreau's best poetry and essays on nature, materialism, conformity, and politics, including such works as "Slavery in Massachusetts," "Civil
With this volume (a companion to Collected Stories 1911-1937), The Library of America presents the finest of Wharton's achievement in short fiction, drawn from the more than eighty stories she publis
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.
Here in one authoritative volume are Willa Cather's essential masterpieces: the story collection The Troll Garden, along with the beloved novels O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. "Let
This adventurous two-volume collection presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of t
Here in one volume are all of Stephen Crane's best-known works, including the novels The Red Badge of Courage, about a young and confused Union soldier under fire for the first time; Maggie: A Girl of
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
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
Later Novels and Other Writings begins with The Lady in the Lake (1943). Written during the war, the story takes Marlowe out of the seamy L.A. streets to the deceptive tranquility of the surrounding
The years 1942 to 1954 saw William Faulkner's rise to literary celebrity - sought after by Hollywood, lionized by the critics, awarded a Nobel Prize in 1950 and the Pulitzer and National Book Award f
"Deep down it's mine, right to the center of the world," says a Salinas Valley farmer about his land in John Steinbeck's To a God Unknown, and Steinbeck the writer could have said the same. From the v
An anthology encompassing The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee, and Joan of Arc features Twain's imaginative studies of the Middle Ages, in a children's classic, a unique comic-violent fan
In nineteenth-century America, poetry was part of everyday life, as familiar as a hymn, a love song, a patriotic exhortation. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveals the vigor and diversity o
In nineteenth-century America, poetry was, part of everyday life, as familiar as a hymn, a love song, a patriotic exhortation. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveals the vigor and diversity
"Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!" Henry James as a traveler amply fulfilled his own famous directive to aspiring novelists. Collected here for the first time in two volumes, Jame
Native Son and Black Boy are classics of twentieth-century American literature—and yet the novel and memoir known to millions of readers are in fact revised and abbreviated versions of the books Richa
Presents three works from the distinguished American writer--"The Princess Cassimassima," "The Reverberator," and "The Tragic Muse"--that explore a range of ideas in a distinct realist style
This collection includes all the short stories, both novels, the essays, and sellected letters of one of the most unique and important writers in the southern tradition
This volume contains three novels by the renowned master of naturalism, including "Sister Carrie," the story of a young women's rise in the world as her lover sinks into poverty and suicide
One of the greatest histories ever written in English, Henry Adams’s History of the United States is remarkable for its fullness of detail, its penetrating insight, and above all its strong, lively, a
This Library of America volume, along with its companion, presents, for the first time in compact form, all seven titles of Francis Parkman’s monumental account of France and England’s imperial strugg
