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Series
Library of America volume 289
Publisher
The Library Of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 987 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of 127 first-person narratives by writers such as Richard Harding Davis, Edith Wharton, John Reed, Henry Morgenthau, Leslie Davis, Jane Addams, Emma Goldman, Victor Chapman, Edmond Genet, Hervey Allen, Ellen N. La Motte, Mary Borden, Carrie Chapman Catt, Oliver Wendell Holmes, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and many more.
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Series
Library of America volume 306
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 513 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This volume contains thirty-six essays published by Norman Mailer from November 1960 to September 1969, along with the preface to his 1963 collection The Presidential Papers and two prefaces he wrote for paperback editions of that book" (Note; page 471).
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Series
Library of America volume 304
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
977 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Albert Murray (1916-2013) was one of the most provocative and original American thinkers of the twentieth century, writing with equal grace and power as an essayist and novelist."--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xxi, 530 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Bending and stretching its conventions to imagine new, more feminist futures and new ways of experiencing gender, visionary women writers have been from the beginning an essential if often overlooked force in American science fiction. Two hundred years after Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, SF-expert Lisa Yaszek presents the best of this female tradition, from the pioneers of the Pulp Era to the radical innovators of the 1960s New Wave, in a landmark...
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Series
Library of America volume 305
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
926 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
No writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, for the first time in one volume, are his unforgettable books of the 1960s: two disruptive and visionary novels, and two radically innovative journalistic masterpieces. War hero, television star, existential hipster,...
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Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1,048 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This second volume gathers the final four Kairos novels, in which Meg and Calvin's daughter Polly takes center stage. In The Arm of the Starfish, Polly disappears, and Calvin's research assistant is implicated in her kidnapping. In Dragons in the Waters, Polly and her brother Charles are on a steamer bound for Venezuela when they help solve a murder connected to a stolen portrait of Simon Bolivar. Polly receives an education in different kinds of...
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Series
Library of America volume 302
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiii, 1,021 pages : map, genealogical table ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Series
Library of America volume 303
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xxix, 778 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The defeat of the Confederacy and the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 brought about the final destruction of slavery in the United States. Americans were confronted for the first time with the possibility of creating a republic dedicated to the principle of racial equality. What followed over the next twelve years was one of the most complex, inspiring, and ultimately tragic eras in American history. Reconstruction: Voices From America's...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 307
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xliii, 546 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
290) Westerns
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Series
Library of America volume 308
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
781 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
854 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This first volume gathers Wrinkle with three books that chronicle the continuing adventures of Meg and her siblings. In A Wind in the Door, Meg and Calvin descend into the microverse to save Charles Wallace from the Echthroi, evil beings who are trying to unname existence. When a madman threatens nuclear war in A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Charles Wallace must save the future by traveling into the past. And in Many Waters, Sandy and Dennys, Meg's twin...
Series
Library of America volume 333
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
lx, 1,110 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate...
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Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
887 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A master storyteller and visionary champion of creative freedom, Ray Bradbury is one of the most beloved and influential writers of our time. In books that look forward to astonishing futures and backward to evanescent realms of memory, he elevated speculative fiction from the pages of the pulps to the vital center of American literary culture. This definitive Library of America edition gathers his novels and story cycles of the 1950s and 1960s for...
Series
Library of America volume Special Publication
Publisher
A Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxix, 560 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963, the book exploded into women's consciousness. Before the decade was out, what had begun as a campaign for women's civil rights transformed into a diverse and revolutionary movement for freedom and social justice that challenged many aspects of everyday life long accepted as fixed: work, birth control and abortion, childcare and housework, gender, class, and race, art and literature, sexuality...
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