The stories of a free-spirited American woman in Paris, an unhappy marriage, small town mores, a lovers' triangle, and life in New York are accompanied by the author's autobiography
The President's writings trace his opposition to slavery, share his appraisal of the presidential election, and document his leadership during the Civil War.
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
Gathers an account of the African slave trade, reminiscences of the author's life, and essays about racism, Black music and culture, and American politics.
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
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 monumental work, the second of two Library of America volumes, culminated Henry Adams’s lifelong fascination with the American past. Writing at the height of his powers, Adams understood the true
The five novels in The Leatherstocking Tales (collected in two Library of America volumes), Cooper's great saga of the American wilderness, form a pageant of the American frontier. Cooper's hero, Natt
Gathers James essays about fiction, literary criticism, and the works of Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Howells, Stowe, Arnold, Browning, Byron, Trollope, and Stevenson
Gathers James essays about fiction, literary criticism, and the works of Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Howells, Stowe, Arnold, Browning, Byron, Trollope, and Stevenson
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
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
Ross Macdonald transformed the detective novel into a literary expression of unique psychological depth and drama. Here, for the first time in a deluxe three-volume Library of America boxed set, are e
A modern Thoreau explores the mysteries of the universe in this deluxe collector's boxed set.To read Loren Eiseley (1907–1977) is to renew a sense of wonder at the miracles and paradoxes of evolution
Thornton Wilder was the rare writer whose achievements as a playwright were matched by equal abilities as a novelist. As companion to its volume of Wilder's collected plays, The Library of America's e
In works set on ruined Louisiana plantations and in bustling New Orleans, Kate Chopin wrote with unblinking honesty about the strictures of propriety, the illusions of love and the realities of marria
This third volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck's writings shows one of America's most enduring popular writers continuing restlessly to explore new subject matte
