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Library of America volume 50
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Library of America volume 51
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Series
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English
Description
Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature. I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most significant slave narratives. They describe whippings, torture, starvation, resistance, and hairbreadth escapes; slave auctions, kidnappings, and murders; sexual abuse, religious confusion, the struggle of learning to read and write; and the...
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English
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One of the greatest African American leaders and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote with unsurpassed eloquence on almost all the major issues confronting the American people during his life from the abolition of slavery to women's rights, from the Civil War to lynching, from American patriotism to Black Nationalism. Between 1950 and 1975, Philip S. Foner collected the most important of Douglass's hundreds...
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Library of America volume 117
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2000.
Physical Desc
1082 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Library of America volume 118
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
854 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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English
Description
Much has been written about Thurgood Marshall, but this is the first book to collect his own words. Here are briefs he filed as a lawyer, oral arguments for the landmark school desegregation cases, investigative reports on race riots and racism in the Army, speeches and articles outlining the history of civil rights and criticizing the actions of more conservative jurists, Supreme Court opinions now widely cited in Constitutional law, a long and complete...
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English
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The men and women represented in this book had the extraordinary opportunity of witnessing the end of a 200-year struggle for freedom: the Civil War. Gathered here are the stirring testimonies of many African Americans including slaves who endured their last years of servitude before escaping from their masters, soldiers who fought for the freedom of their brethren and for equal rights, and reporters who covered the defeat of their oppressors. These...
10) Complete novels
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Library of America volume 189
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
933 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
11) The pioneers
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English
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Natty Bumppo, now on the threshold of old age, finds his way of life challenged as the land he has roamed becomes private property and the laws of man supplant the laws of nature.
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Library of America volume 216
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2011.
Physical Desc
851 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of four novels, four short stories, and other writings, including a speech and letters.
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Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
An “impressive new volume” of 5 noir novels by the cult-favorite author who stands alongside Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett as a master of American crime writing (The New York Review of Books)
Among the pantheon of American crime writers—those masters of noir whose powerful vernacular style and dark and subversive themes transformed American culture and writing—David Goodis was a unique figure. Now,...
Among the pantheon of American crime writers—those masters of noir whose powerful vernacular style and dark and subversive themes transformed American culture and writing—David Goodis was a unique figure. Now,...
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Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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The Library of America presents “the first truly dependable collection of Poe’s poetry and tales”—featuring well-known works like ‘The Raven’ and ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, plus a selection of rarely published writings (New York Review of Books).
Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry is famous both for the musicality of “To Helen” and “The City in the Sea” and...
Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry is famous both for the musicality of “To Helen” and “The City in the Sea” and...
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Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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A landmark collection of four brilliant novels by the female pioneers of crime fiction—women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline
Though women crime and suspense writers dominate today’s bestseller lists, the extraordinary work of their mid-century predecessors is largely unknown. Turning from the mean streets of the hardboiled school, these groundbreaking female
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Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
The Real Lolita author Sarah Weinman presents a landmark collection of 4 brilliant novels by the female pioneers of crime fiction—women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline
Though women crime and suspense writers dominate today’s bestseller lists, the extraordinary work of the mid-century pioneers of the genre is largely unknown. Turning in many cases from the mean...
Though women crime and suspense writers dominate today’s bestseller lists, the extraordinary work of the mid-century pioneers of the genre is largely unknown. Turning in many cases from the mean...
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Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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This first volume of the definitive edition of her fiction includes four novels and eight classic stories by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation
In 1942, Mary McCarthy provoked a scandal with her electrifying debut novel, The Company She Keeps, announcing the arrival of a major new voice in American literature. A candid, thinly-veiled portrait of the late-1930s New...
In 1942, Mary McCarthy provoked a scandal with her electrifying debut novel, The Company She Keeps, announcing the arrival of a major new voice in American literature. A candid, thinly-veiled portrait of the late-1930s New...
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.
Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
Library of America inaugurates its edition of the complete fiction of one of America's most beloved living writers
For more than fifty years, in eight novels and fortytwo short stories, Wendell Berry (b. 1934) has created an indelible portrait of rural America through the lens of Port William, Kentucky, one of the most fully imagined places in American literature. Taken together, these novels and stories form a masterwork...
For more than fifty years, in eight novels and fortytwo short stories, Wendell Berry (b. 1934) has created an indelible portrait of rural America through the lens of Port William, Kentucky, one of the most fully imagined places in American literature. Taken together, these novels and stories form a masterwork...
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