Books from Library of America
-
Dashiell Hammett: Complete Novels (LOA #110): Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key...
By Dashiell HammettIn a few years of extraordinary creative energy, Dashiell Hammett invented the modern American crime novel. In the words of Raymond Chandler, “Hammett gave murder back to the kind of...
-
H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (LOA #155)
By H. P. LovecraftAn extensive collection of H.P. Lovecraft’s greatest works of horror and dread, from his early stories to his major classics like “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” and At the Mountains of Madness In this Library ...
-
Wendell Berry: Essays 1969-1990 (LOA #316)
By Wendell BerryThis first volume collects thirty-three essays from nine different books, including his first, The Long-Legged House (1969), What are People For? (1990), with its still provocative essay "Why I am Not Going to Buy a Computer," and the ...
-
Hart Crane: Complete Poems & Selected Letters (LOA #168)
By Hart CraneNo 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...
-
Wendell Berry: Essays 1993-2017 (LOA #317)
By Wendell BerrySweetness. Preserved. WHAT. I AM GOING TO DO is talk about some poems—lyric poems—as the products of a story. Most poems, whether or not they tell or contain stories, come out of stories, and often they bear reference to the stories ...
-
W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction (LOA #350): An Essay Toward a History of the Part whichBlack Folk Played in the...
By W.E.B. Du BoisA definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War’s aftermath and the legacy of racism in America Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois’s now classic Black Reconstruction offered a ...
-
The Blank Wall
By Elisabeth Sanxay HoldingThe Blank Wall
-
The Debate on the Constitution Part 1: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches: (Library of America #62)
By VariousThe most famous writings of the ratification struggle — the Federalist essays of Hamilton and Madison — are placed in their original context, alongside the arguments of able antagonists, such as "Brutus" and the "Federal Farmer.
-
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath & Other Writings 1936-1941 (LOA #86): The Grapes of Wrath / The Harvest Gypsies...
By John SteinbeckThe second volume in The Library of America’s authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel...
-
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: A Library of America Paperback Classic
By Frederick DouglassOne of the greatest works of American autobiography, in a definitive Library of America text: Published seven years after his escape from slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) is a powerful account ...
-
Arthur Miller: Collected Plays Vol. 1 1944-1961 (LOA #163)
By Arthur Miller“Miller takes his rightful place in The Library of America with this volume.” —Library Journal (starred review)In the inaugural volume of its collected edition of Miller’s plays, The Library of...
-
Arthur Miller: Collected Plays Vol. 2 1964-1982 (LOA #223)
By Arthur MillerThis second volume of Arthur Miller's collected plays opens with After the Fall (1964), his much-anticipated return to the theater after an eight-year hiatus.
-
Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man, The October Country & Other Stories (LOA #360)
By Ray BradburyIn one authoritative volume, here are two landmark story collections by one of America’s most beloved authors, plus 27 stellar, speculative, and strange tales from other collections, including 7 restored to print The author of over 400 ...
-
Henry James: Novels 1901-1902 (LOA #162): The Sacred Fount / The Wings of the Dove
By Henry JamesThis volume prints the New York Edition text of The Wings of the Dove, and includes the illuminating preface James wrote for that edition.
-
The Souls of Black Folk: A Library of America Paperback Classic
By W.E.B. Du BoisEach book features a detailed chronology of the author?s life and career, and essay on the choice of the text, and notes.
-
Washington Irving: Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveller, The Alhambra (LOA #52
By Washington IrvingWritten at the peak of his popularity, these three works reveal Irving’s remarkable diversity, his skill at adapting European legends to his own style, and the talent for entertainment that made him America’s first literary celebrity.
-
Jonathan Edwards: Writings from the Great Awakening (LOA #245)
By Jonathan EdwardsIn authoritative texts drawn from first editions and manuscript sources, this volume brings together all of Edwards’s essential writings from and about the revivals, including the famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” ...
-
Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy (LOA #323)
By Frances Hodgson BurnettThis authoritative edition restores the novels to their original American texts, as Burnett wrote them and features over 40 painstakingly restored illustrations--16 in full color--plus a ribbon marker, helpful annotations, and a short ...
-
American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1968-1969 (LOA #322): Past Master / Picnic on Paradise / Nova / Emphyrio
By Joanna Russ, Jack Vance, Samuel R. DelanyFour mind-bending novels from science fiction's most transformative decade in a deluxe collector's edition hardcover, including two long out-of-print classics In this second volume of a two-volume set gathering the best American science ...
-
The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, & Newly Translated Writings
By Jack KerouacThis landmark volume is rounded out with the memoir Memory Babe, a poignant evocation of childhood play and reverie in a robust immigrant community, in which Kerouac uncannily retrieves and distills the subtlest sense impressions.