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
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
Ursula Le Guin's beloved YA series gathered for the first time in a deluxe collector's edition for every readerThis fifth volume in the definitive Library of America edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's wor
Our foremost literary critic on our most essential writers, from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, from Faulkner and O'Connor to Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip Roth.No critic has better underst
For the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a deluxe collector's edition gathering two gripping masterpieces of military history.For the 75th anniversary of D-Day, Library of America presents two of the best b
Ursula K. Le Guin's most ambitious novel, a richly-imagined vision of post-apocalyptic California, in a newly expanded version prepared shortly before her deathThis fourth volume in the authoritative
For the first time in a deluxe boxed set, the definitive edition of Richard Wright's landmark works in the form in which he intended them to be read.Here, in authoritative new texts based on the autho
In one volume, two landmark novels about the terrible power of race in America from one of the foremost African American writers of the past century.Ann Petry is increasingly recognized as one of the
The Civil War's greatest general as you've never seen him before, in a revealing collection of letters to his wife Julia introduced by Ron Chernow.Ulysses S. Grant is justly celebrated as the author o
A Wrinkle in Time was only the beginning: here, together for the first time in a deluxe Library of America edition, are the thrilling adventures of Meg Murray's daughter PollyMadeleine L'Engle's A Wri
Library of America presents a definitive collection of classic Westerns by America's master modern crime writer One of the great storytellers of our time, Elmore Leonard perfected his craft writing We
Library of America inaugurates its edition of the complete fiction of one of America's most beloved living writersPort William, Kentucky, is one of the most fully realized settings in American literat
The violent aftermath of the Civil War comes to dramatic life in this sweeping new collection of firsthand writing There are few periods in American history more consquential but less understood than
Complete in one volume for the first time, the joyous, jazz-saturated fiction of one of our foremost African American writers, including the four-novel Scooter sequenceOne of the leading cultural crit
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
The second volume of Library of America's definitive edition of America's foremost living poet, including the modern classic Flow Chart in a newly corrected text.To celebrate his ninetieth birthday, L
For the first time in a collector's boxed set, the most comprehensive edition ever published of Mark Twain's short writings -- the incomparable stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speec
This deluxe two-volume collector's boxed set captures a world at war as seen through the eyes of a generation's greatest reporters.Released to mark the 75th anniversary of America's entrance into Worl
The ultimate Vonnegut: all 14 novels plus a selection of the best of his stories in a definitive collector's boxed set.The novels of Kurt Vonnegut defined a generation a remain among the most enduring
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
"Film criticism is exciting just because there is no formula to apply," Pauline Kael once observed, "just because you must use everything you are and everything you know." Between
"The best thing he ever wrote," observed Edmund Wilson of Thornton Wilder's National Book Award winner The Eighth Day (1967), an enthralling novel that shows Wilder revisiting the small-town America
Like Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was a Midwestern everyman steeped in the rhythms of American speech whose anger at the way things are was matched only by his love for the best that we can b
"I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy," wrote John Adams, who devoted his considerable energy, tenacious intellect, and eloquent pen to his
"I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy," wrote John Adams, who devoted his considerable energy, tenacious intellect, and eloquent pen to his
In celebration of the Tennessee Williams centennial in 2011, The Library of America presents its acclaimed two-volume edition of his plays in a collector's boxed set. Gathering thirty-two works writt
In this, the first of two volumes collecting all his woodcut novels, The Library of America brings together Lynd Ward’s earliest books, published when the artist was still in his twenties.Gods’ Man (1
In this, the second of two volumes collecting all his woodcut novels, The Library of America brings together Lynd Ward’s three later books, two of them brief, the visual equivalent of chamber music, t
On September 28, 1960-a day that will live forever in the hearts of fans-Red Sox slugger Ted Williams stepped up to the plate for his last at-bat in Fenway Park. Seizing the occasion, he belted a sol
"The Red Badge of Courage is the definitive fiction of the conflict that stands as the central trauma in American history." -- Larzer Ziff Before his untimely death at the age of 28, Stephen Crane pr
"If there is a more highly regarded female American author of the twentieth century, her name doesn't readily come to mind." --John Updike Born in 1862 into an exclusive New York society-against whos
"No other popular writer of his time did any better writing than you will find in The Call of the Wild."--H. L. MenckenOne of the greatest American storytellers, Jack London enjoyed phenomenal popular
On October 3rd, 2007 Anne Stevenson was named the second recipient of the Poetry FoundationA's Neglected Masters Award. The award brings renewed critical attention to the life's work of a significant
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
The great accomplishment of Philip K. Dick, in the words of editor Jonathan Lethem, was "to turn the materials of American pulp-style science fiction into a vocabulary for a remarkably personal visio
