The Librarybrary of America Collection聮sers, for the first time ever, a buoyant guided tour of American light verse-a tradition he delightfully pursues from Ambrose Bierce's sard he most controversial and influential figures of his time. He criticized the likes of Eliot and Henry James, was called by the chair of hisart of expressing depth through apparent frivolity. The effervescent wit and technical bravura of his songs are matched by their unguararing (1902-61) wrote poems filled with the lingo of advertising and radio broadcasts and tabloid headlines, sidewalk political oratory, a book聴isits an American original. Richard Wilbur explores the philosophical depth of verse more widely noted for its macabre and gothic surfa d one of the world's most renowned literary critics, surveys Walt Whitman's vast poetic work, from early notebook fragments of Song o Carl Sandburg became one of the most famous poets in America: the voice of a midwestern literary revolt, fusing free-verse poetics w eated the modern American crime novel In a few years of extraordinary creative energy, Dashiell Hammett invented the modern Ameri of letters at the turn of the century, which explore the conflicts of private life and social institutions with unflinching realismn. Contains "And," Mark Twain once wrote. In this sixth volume in The Library of America's authoritative collection of his writings-the final volume of h sial figures of the American founding, Alexander Hamilton was an unusually prolific and vigorous writer. As a military aide to George Wivic leader, Benjamin Franklin was also the most powerful writer of his time. From his first appearance in print, in the guise of the eccen etter than F. Scott Fitzgerald, is more plaintive than Willa Cather in her evocation of the heartland and has a more supple control of saRichard Henry Dana, Jr., that span 25 years of maritime history, from the age of sail to the age of steam. Sufferingnent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American New Barbarians and olume collector's editionOver the course of a long and astonishingly productive literary career that stretched from the early 1890s to jus rican frontier follows the exploits of Natty from the French and Indian Wars to the early nineteenth century. The five novels are present osmopolitan New Orleans, Kate Chopin wrote with unflinching honesty about propriety and its strictures, the illusions of love and the rea complete in this volume, feature sparkling dialogue, masterfully timed suspense, and the romance of youthful artistic aspirations. The Weldon Johnson聮s first book and the first modernist novel written by an African American, is a groundbreaking and subtle ath have re-energized American fiction and redefined its possibilities. Roth's comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in explor est writers at the height of his powers. Presented in authoritative new texts, they explore the struggles of characters in a South caught be civil rights movement in both his fiction and nonfiction, a fact which, coupled with his extraordinary writing talent, assured not only hisf Miller's plays, The Library of America gathers the works from the 1940s and 1950s that electrified theatergoers and established Miller e of Courage," "George's Mother," "The Third Violet," journalism, tales and sketches, poetry. Includes firsthand accounts from Greece, a spent his adult life working in the rigorously non-poetic insurance business. Yet his poetry, most of which he wrote after his 50th birthdatawpha County culminates in his three last novels, rich with the history and lore of the domain where he set most of his novels and sto comprehensive one-volume collection ever published Over 200 years after the founding of the federal republic, James Madison remain self, escaped, and made himself one of the greatest leaders in American history. His brilliant anti-slavery speeches were so fiercely int place in the pantheon of American literature, but they hold special interest for cinema enthusiasts, who can both compare them to the m ven parts of Francis Parkman's monumental narrative history of the struggle for control of the American continent. Thirty years in the w erican freedom in lucid and extraordinarily moving prose. Here in this two volume set ("Speeches and Writings 1859-1865" and "Speec ong fiction published by the beloved Mississippi writer Eudora Welty. Throughout her long and storied career, Welty has been most fam he Puritans, the clear, plain-spoken wisdom of the Quakers, or the improvisational style of African American folk preaching, the sermo a taste for the woods and the Indians." His lifelong fascination with these American subjects are brilliantly recorded in "The Oregon Tra ncludes a volume featuring 10 of the most important slave narratives in African American history. Edited by English professor William L ns and historical echoes, James's travel writings are both literary masterpieces and unsurpassed guidebooks, here together for the first success--and greatest inner anguish. Plagued by depression and alcohol, he knew he had more to achieve and a finite amount of timeof Jefferson ever published. Contains the "Autobiography," "Notes on the State of Virginia," public and private papers, including the orassos prefigured his groundbreaking epic through three novels that provide a fascinating glimpse into his stunning achievement as an a n 1925, An American Tragedy is the culmination of Theodore Dreiser's elementally powerful fictional art. Taking as his point of departulete stories are again available--in a handsome, authoritative collector's edition With this fifth and final volume of The Library of Americ er, Cooper went on to invent the sea novel. 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From the swirling center of poetic change he excited the powerful energies of Eliot, Joyce, and Willia he Professor's House," "Death Comes for the Archbishop," "Shadows on the Rock," "Lucy Gayheart," and "Sapphira and the Slave Girl" uage and uncompromising in his social observation and his pursuit of emotional truth, James Agee (1909- 1955) excelled as novelist, c n Henry James catches the author as he inaugurates his "middle period," the years when he wrote many of his best books. The three n urse of my Life," Benjamin Franklin said in his famous Autobiography. With characteristically calculated understatement, he attributed herica should be so generous as to rescue from the mists of oblivion such an author as Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810). This sonbled gathers every poem Emerson published during his lifetime along with the best of the unpublished verse from his manuscripts, jou nthologized short stories, the third and final volume (with "Early Novels and Stories" and "Later Novels") of the most comprehensive Ca ned as a harbinger of modern barbarism, Sherman is the most controversial general of the Civil War. "War is cruelty, you cannot refine r, Washington Irving, was also one of the first to write about its then far-western frontier. After seventeen years in Europe, the famous a tate of vision," "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is probably the most influential work of fiction in American history. Stowe's movperiod in their entirety: "Nature: Addresses and Lectures," "Essays: First and Second Series," "Representative Men," "English Traits," a collection of pulp novels, most of which were made into important films. James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice is a litera public declarations, contemporary narratives, and private memoranda, The American Revolution brings together over 120 pieces by m came to the United States in 1831 to study its penitentiary systems. His nine-month visit and subsequent reading aul writers of the late nineteenth century, collected in one volume for the first time. Contains "The Education of Henrmplete prose works of Herman Melville includes three romances of the South Seas. "Typee" and "Omoo," based on the young Melville ur feet." Willa Cather's remark describes her own reasons for re-creating in her powerful fiction the Nebraska frontier of her youth. The of John Steinbeck (with "Novels and Stories, 1932-1937") features the Pulitzer-Prize winning masterpiece "The Grapes of Wrath" in a nweep, Dos Passos' masterpiece comprises three novels--"The 42nd Parallel," "1919," and "The Big Money"--which create an unforgettaan pulp novelist. His prose is so acutely visual, his characters so raw and intense that it is small wonder that all but one of his books ha se from the first American author to burst onto the international literary scene. "The Alhambra," Irving's "Spanish Sketchbook," was inspst famous and characteristic of Mark Twain's works. Through each of them runs the powerful and majestic Mississippi. The river repres the first time, including his remarkable and haunting poems, his classic tales of mystery, horror, and suspense, and his humorous sketc ate political activism, John Muir made himself America's most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness, a ma s family's future. In doing so, the Civil War's greatest general won himself a unique place in American letters. His character, sense of p ven parts of Francis Parkman's monumental narrative history of the struggle for control of the American continent. Thirty years in the w ely claimed Nathanael West's life, he was a relatively obscure writer, the author of only four short novels. West's reputation has grown thnographer, William Bartram was the most significant American nature writer before Thoreau. This volume includes "Travels through rse of the bloodless revolution that created the government of the United States and the world's oldest working national charter. In spee n Irving was America's first internationally acclaimed man of letters. Here in one volume are the writings that established his reputation ks were out of print. Now, Zora Neale Hurston is recognized as one of the most important and influential modern American writers. This (1901), one of Henry James's most unusual experiments, and The Wings of the Dove (1902), one of his most beloved masterpieces anc, Paris has provoked an extraordinary American literary response. An almost inevitable destination for writers and thinkers, Paris has b sal promise and apocalyptic undercurrents. Simone de Beauvoir saw a kaleidoscopic "hall of mirrors," Aldous Huxley a "city of dreadful en watching baseball "be it in park or sand lot." Full of heroism and heartbreak, the most beloved of American sportpiritual life can be found than the work of its poets. From Anne Bradstreet to the Beats, from Native American chanor African Americans to march on Washington to Alice Walker in 1973, Reporting Civil Rights presents firsthand accounts of the revolu or African Americans to march on Washington to Alice Walker in 1973, Reporting Civil Rights presents firsthand accounts of the revolu ds Lonigan trilogy follows the hopes and dissipations of its remarkable main character聴a would-be 聯tough guy聰 and archend accounts of the revolutionary events that overthrew segregation in the United States. This two-volume anthology brings together for nd accounts of the revolutionary events that overthrew segregation in the United States. This two-volume anthology brings together for 聯tough guy聰 and archetypal adolescent, born to Irish-American parents on Chicago聮s South Side聴through the turbulent years of Whology brings together for the first time nearly 200 newspaper and magazine reports and book excerpts, and features 151 writers, includ hology brings together for the first time nearly 200 newspaper and magazine reports and book excerpts, and features 151 writers, includ h the turbulent years of World War I, the Roaring Twenties, and the Great Depression. The three novels聴 Young Lonigan, The Youngeatures 151 writers, including James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, David Halberstam, Lillian Smith, Gordon Parks, Murray Kempton, T eatures 151 writers, including James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, David Halberstam, Lillian Smith, Gordon Parks, Murray Kempton, T ung Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan , and Judgment Day 聴offer a vivid sense of the textures of real life: of the institutiParks, Murray Kempton, Ted Poston, Claude Sitton, and Anne Moody. A newly researched chronology of the movement, a 32-page ins Parks, Murray Kempton, Ted Poston, Claude Sitton, and Anne Moody. A newly researched chronology of the movement, a 32-page ins of real life: of the institutions of Catholicism, the poolroom and the dance marathon, romance and marriage, gangsterism and ethnic rivmovement, a 32-page insert of rare journalist photographs, and original biographical profiles are included in each volume Roi Ottley an movement, a 32-page insert of rare journalist photographs, and original biographical profiles are included in each volume Vivid reports gangsterism and ethnic rivalry, and the slang of the street corner. Cited as an inspiration by writers as diverse as Kurt Vonnegut and Fraach volume Roi Ottley and Sterling Brown record African American anger during World War II; Carl Rowan examines school segregatio ach volume Vivid reports by Robert Richardson and Bob Clark capture the nightmarish Watts and Detroit riots, while Paul Good records as Kurt Vonnegut and Frank McCourt, Studs Lonigan stands as a masterpiece of social realism in the ranks of John Steinbeck聮s Thehool segregation; Dan Wakefield and William Bradford Huie describe Emmett Till's savage murder; and Ted Posto。
