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Slave Narratives (LOA #114)

Author : William L. Andrews
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 9781883011765
Total Pages : 1066 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Slave Narratives (LOA #114) written by William L. Andrews and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2000-01-15 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition by expressing their in anger, pain, sorrow, and courage. Included in the volume: Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw; Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; The Confessions of Nat Turner; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Narrative of William W. Brown; Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb; Narrative of Sojouner Truth; Ellen and William Craft's Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Narrative of the Life of J. D.Green. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Raymond Carver: Collected Stories (LOA #195)

Author : Raymond Carver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Raymond Carver: Collected Stories (LOA #195) written by Raymond Carver and published by . This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects legendary and controversial works by the mid-twentieth-century writer including posthumous, unedited, and previously unseen versions, in a comparative anthology that offers insight into the influence of editor Gordon Lish.

Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories (LOA #204)

Author : Shirley Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories (LOA #204) written by Shirley Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a collection of writings across different genres by the mid-twentieth-century author.

William Maxwell: Early Novels and Stories (LOA #179)

Author : William Maxwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1042 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book William Maxwell: Early Novels and Stories (LOA #179) written by William Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-10 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his second book, They Came Like Swallows (1937), William Maxwell found his signature subject matter—the fragility of human happiness—as well as his voice, a quiet, cadenced Midwestern voice that John Updike has called one of the wisest and kindest in American fiction. Set against the background of the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, this short novel presents the loving character of Elizabeth Morison, a devoted wife and mother, through the eyes of those whom she is fated to leave decades before her time. Edmund Wilson described The Folded Leaf (1945) as “a quite unconventional study of adolescent relationships—between two boys, with a girl in the offing—in Chicago and in a Middle Western college: very much lived and very much seen.” He praised this “drama of the immature” for the compassion Maxwell brings to his male protagonists, whose intensely felt, unarticulated bond is beyond their inchoate ability to understand. Time Will Darken It (1948) is a drama of the mature: a good man’s struggle to keep duty before desire and his family’s needs before his own. It paints a portrait of Draperville, Illinois, in 1912, a proud and isolated community governed by gossip, where an ambitious young woman must not overreach the limits society has placed on her sex, and an older, married gentleman must not encourage her should she dare. Together with these major works, this Library of America edition of Maxwell’s early fiction collects his lighthearted first novel, Bright Center of Heaven (1934), out of print for nearly 70 years, and nine masterly short stories. It concludes with “The Writer as Illusionist” (1955), Maxwell’s fullest statement on the art of fiction as he practiced it. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation (LOA #233)

Author : Various
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598532146
Total Pages : 1275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation (LOA #233) written by Various and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 1275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, here is a collection of writings that charts our nation’s long, heroic confrontation with its most poisonous evil. It’s an inspiring moral and political struggle whose evolution parallels the story of America itself. To advance their cause, the opponents of slavery employed every available literary form: fiction and poetry, essay and autobiography, sermons, pamphlets, speeches, hymns, plays, even children’s literature. This is the first anthology to take the full measure of a body of writing that spans nearly two centuries and, exceptionally for its time, embraced writers black and white, male and female. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Phillis Wheatley, and Olaudah Equiano offer original, even revolutionary, eighteenth century responses to slavery. With the nineteenth century, an already diverse movement becomes even more varied: the impassioned rhetoric of Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison joins the fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, and William Wells Brown; memoirs of former slaves stand alongside protest poems by John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Lydia Sigourney; anonymous editorials complement speeches by statesmen such as Charles Sumner and Abraham Lincoln. Features helpful notes, a chronology of the antislavery movement, and a16-page color insert of illustrations. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Philip Roth: Novels & Other Narratives 1986-1991 (LOA #185)

Author : Philip Roth
Publisher : Library of America Philip Roth Edition
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philip Roth: Novels & Other Narratives 1986-1991 (LOA #185) written by Philip Roth and published by Library of America Philip Roth Edition. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For the last half century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and redefined its possibilities. Roth's comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable truths, and his assault on political, cultural, and sexual orthodoxies have made him one of the essential writers of our time. By special arrangement with the author, The Library of America continues the definitive edition of Roth's collected works." "The Counterlife (1986) is a book of astonishing 180-degree turns, of conflicting perspectives and points of view, and, by far, Roth's most radical novel to date. The subject is people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Illuminating these lives in transition is the skeptical, enveloping intelligence of the writer Nathan Zuckerman." "In 1987, a year after the imaginative extravaganza of The Counterlife, Roth reverses field with The Facts, the first of the "Roth Books." The Facts presents the author's own battles defictionalized and unadorned, and concludes with the unique assault that Roth mounts against his own proficiencies as an autobiographer." "At the center of the second of the Roth Books, Deception (1990), are a married American named Philip, living in London, and the married Englishwoman - trapped with a little child in a loveless upper-middle-class household - who eloquently and minutely reveals herself to her lover as they talk before and after making love. With the skill of a brilliant observer of the illicit and the intimate, Roth presents the highly enclosed world of adultery with a directness that has no equal in American fiction." "In the third Roth Book, Patrimony (1991), Philip Roth watches as Herman Roth, his 86-year-old father - famous for his vigor, his charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections - battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, revealing the survivalist tenacity that has distinguished Herman's passionate engagement with life."--BOOK JACKET.

Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories Vol. 3 (LOA #151)

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories Vol. 3 (LOA #151) written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by . This book was released on 2004-07-08 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of fifty-four short stories, including "Gimpel the Fool," "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy," and "The Mirror."

Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories Vol. 2 (LOA #150)

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories Vol. 2 (LOA #150) written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by . This book was released on 2004-07-08 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of sixty-five short stories.

John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings (LOA #188)

Author : John Cheever
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings (LOA #188) written by John Cheever and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark volume combines the entire Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, "The Stories of John Cheever," with seven selections from Cheever's first book, "The Way Some People Live."

Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings (LOA #186)

Author : Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1128 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings (LOA #186) written by Katherine Anne Porter and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The centerpiece of this Library of America edition of Porter's shorter writings is The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (1965), the career-capping volume that won for its author a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Set in her native Texas and her beloved Mexico, in Greenwich Village, Berlin, and the gothic Old South, these are stories that, in the words of V. S. Pritchett, "suggest the whole rather than the surface of life." They include her first, "Maria Concepcion" (1922), the tale of a Mexican Indian who confronts her husband's lover in a world where jealousy, revenge, and death are constant companions and the first allegiance is always to the living. Also her last, "Holiday" (1960), in which a young woman's account of her summer vacation - as the paying guest of a family of German farmers on the Texas - Louisiana border - deepens into a meditation on mute suffering, the rituals of death, and the death-in-life that is the failure to recognize a fellow person's humanity. All 26 stories - among them such masterpieces as "Flowering Judas," "Noon Wine," and "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" - are wide in vision but laser-sharp in focus; they exemplify, in the words of Mary Gordon, "the clarity and inclusiveness of the art we proclaim as great."" "Here too, in the most comprehensive selection ever published, are Porter's short nonfiction writings, including speeches, notes, and essays on the writer's craft, literary reflections on Hardy, Pound, and Welty, political dispatches from revolutionary Mexico, and a personal history of the Sacco-Vanzetti case - some 80 items in all, concluding with two previously uncollected essays in autobiography. Storyteller and critic, reporter and book reviewer, private citizen and public figure, Porter in this collection can at last be seen whole, in all her roles and variety and excellence. She is unforgettable, a multifaceted master of American prose."--BOOK JACKET.

Charles W. Chesnutt: Stories, Novels, and Essays (LOA #131)

Author : Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Charles W. Chesnutt: Stories, Novels, and Essays (LOA #131) written by Charles Waddell Chesnutt and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-14 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essential writings from a pioneer of African-American literature features two stories newly restored to print. Eight essays highlight Chesnutt's prescient views on the paradoxes of race relations in America and the definition of race itself.

Dashiell Hammett: Crime Stories & Other Writings (LOA #125)

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Library of America Dashiell Ha
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Dashiell Hammett: Crime Stories & Other Writings (LOA #125) written by Dashiell Hammett and published by Library of America Dashiell Ha. This book was released on 2001-09-10 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: er editors. Also included are revealing essays & an early version of the novel The Thin Man.

Collected Stories, 1891-1910

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1070 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Collected Stories, 1891-1910 written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Speeches Vol. 2 (LOA #167)

Author : Edward L. Widmer
Publisher : Library of America: The Americ
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Speeches Vol. 2 (LOA #167) written by Edward L. Widmer and published by Library of America: The Americ. This book was released on 2006-10-05 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the unabridged texts of important speeches, including Patrick Henry's "liberty or death" speech, women's rights speeches by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Grover Cleveland's address dedicating the Statue of Liberty.

American Speeches Vol. 1 (LOA #166)

Author : Edward L. Widmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Speeches Vol. 1 (LOA #166) written by Edward L. Widmer and published by . This book was released on 2006-10-05 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historian and former presidential speechwriter presents an unprecedented two-volume collection of the greatest speeches in American history.

John Cheever: Complete Novels (LOA #189)

Author : John Cheever
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book John Cheever: Complete Novels (LOA #189) written by John Cheever and published by . This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Library of America presents this definitive collection of Cheever's novels: "The Wapshot Chronicle, The Wapshot Scandal, Bullet Park, Falconer," and "Oh What a Paradise It Seems."

Lafcadio Hearn: American Writings (LOA #190)

Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lafcadio Hearn: American Writings (LOA #190) written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by . This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of Hearn's American years reveal an omnivorous curiosity and an always eclectic sensibility. Some Chinese Ghosts (1887) is a stylized retelling of ancient legends, foreshadowing Hearn's later fascination with Asian themes. The exquisitely crafted novels Chita (1889), about the devastation wrought by a Louisiana hurricane, and Youma (1890) about a slave rebellion in Martinique, epitomize his writing at its most luxuriantly romantic. His extraordinary travel book Two Years in the French West Indies (1890) provides a richly impressionistic account of his long stay on Martinique and other Caribbean islands.