Library of America
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The Prodigal Women: A Novel
$24.95 Read moreRediscover the sensational 1942 bestseller that unveiled the Jazz Age as women lived it
As seen in THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW and VANITY FAIR Set in Boston, New York, and Virginia, The Prodigal Wo- Author: Hale, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 875
- Publish Date: May 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 1598537490
- Language: English
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Flannery O’Connor: Collected Works (Loa #39): Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge
$47.95 Add to cartIn her short lifetime, Flannery O’Connor became one of the most distinctive American writers of the twentieth century. By birth a native of Georgia and a Roman Catholic, O’Connor depicts, in all its c… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #0039
- Author: O’Connor, Flannery
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1300
- Publish Date: September 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0940450372
- Language: English
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The Great Gatsby and Related Stories [Deckle Edge Paper]: The Library of America Corrected Text
$15.95 Read moreLibrary of America presents the definitive novel of the Jazz Age in an authoritative new text–along with a quartet of brilliant stories that explore variations on the theme of desperate longing for a… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1598537563
- Language: English
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String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication
$21.95 Add to cartAn instant classic of American sportswriting–the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, “the best mind of his generation” (A. O. Scott) and “the best tennis-writer of all time” (New York Times)
Gath… [more below]- Author: Wallace, David Foster
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1598534807
- Language: English
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Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963-1973 (Loa #216): Cat’s Cradle / Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions
$45.00 Add to cartLike Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was a Midwestern everyman steeped in the rhythms of American speech whose anger at the way things are was matched only by his love for the best that we can b… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #2
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: June 02 2011
- ISBN10: 1598530984
- Language: English
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Don Delillo: Three Novels of the 1980s (Loa #363): The Names / White Noise / Libra
$45.00 Read moreA definitive edition of a modern master: three essential works that reveal his incomparable style, dark humor, and uncanny sensitivity to the complexities of “living in dangerous times”
Includes White- Author: Delillo, Don
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1100
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1598537334
- Language: English
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African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Loa #333): A Library of America Anthology
$45.00 Add to cartA literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present
Across a turbulent history, from such vital cente- Author: Young, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1170
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1598536664
- Language: English
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Robert Frost: Sixteen Poems to Learn by Heart
$24.00 Add to cartCelebrate Robert Frost’s 150th birthday with a deluxe keepsake edition featuring 16 of his greatest poems–with brilliant essays highlighting his special genius and the power of memorization to unlock… [more below]
- Author: Frost, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1598537709
- Language: English
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The Man Who Cried I Am: A Novel
$19.95 Read moreRediscover the sensational 1967 literary thriller that captures the bitter struggles of postwar Black intellectuals and artists
With a foreword by Ishmael Reed and a new introduction by Merve Emre abo- Author: Williams, John A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 159853761X
- Language: English
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Crime Novels: Four Classic Thrillers 1964-1969 (Loa #371): The Fiend / Doll / Run Man Run / The Tremor of Forgery
$40.00 Read moreIn the 1960s the masters of crime fiction expanded the genre’s literary and psychological possibilities with audacious new themes, forms, and subject matter–here are four of their finest works
This i- Author: O’Brien, Geoffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 950
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 1598537385
- Language: English
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Bruce Catton: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy (Loa #359): Mr. Lincoln’s Army / Glory Road / A Stillness at Appomattox
$45.00 Read moreLibrary of America restores to print a masterpiece of Civil War history in a deluxe collector’s edition
Bruce Catton’s Army of the Potomac trilogy is a landmark of historical story-telling, one of the- Author: Catton, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1296
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1598537253
- Language: English
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Raymond Carver: Collected Stories (Loa #195): Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? / What We Talk about When We Talk about Love / Cathedral / Stories fro
$45.00 Add to cartIn collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #195
- Author: Carver, Raymond
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: August 20 2009
- ISBN10: 1598530461
- Language: English
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On Lying and Politics: A Library of America Special Publication
$12.50 Add to cartMore urgent than ever, two landmark essays by the legendary political theorist on the greatest threat to democracy, gathered with a new introduction by David Bromwich
“No one,” Hannah Arendt observed,- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1598537318
- Language: English
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Rachel Carson: The Sea Trilogy (Loa #352): Under the Sea-Wind / The Sea Around Us / The Edge of the Sea
$40.00 Add to cartPioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson explores the wonders of the Earth’s oceans in these classics of American science and nature writing.
Rachel Carson is perhaps most famous as the author of Sil- Author: Carson, Rachel L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: December 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1598537059
- Language: English
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James Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories (Loa #97): Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man
$45.00 Add to cartHere, in a Library of America volume edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, is the fiction that established James Baldwin’s reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism and rare verbal eloquen
- Series: Library of America James Baldwin Edition #2
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: February 01, 1998
- ISBN10: 1883011515
- Language: English
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Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s (Loa #325): Run River / Slouching Towards Bethlehem / Play It as It Lays / A Book of Common Prayer / The White Album
$39.95 Add to cartLibrary of America launches a definitive collected edition of one of the most original and electric writers of our time with a volume gathering her five iconic books of the 1960s & 70s
Joan Didion’s i- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 980
- Publish Date: November 12, 2019
- ISBN10: 1598536451
- Language: English
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American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (Loa #182)
$49.95 Add to cartAs America and the world grapple with the consequences of global environmental change, writer and activist Bill McKibben offers this unprecedented, provocative, and timely anthology, gathering the bes… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #182
- Author: McKibben, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 900
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1598530208
- Language: English
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Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories (Loa #338)
$35.00 Add to cartThe definitive edition of the complete works of the “grand dame” of American science fiction begins with this volume gathering two novels and her collected stories
An original and eerily prophetic wri- Author: Butler, Octavia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 790
- Publish Date: January 19, 2021
- ISBN10: 1598536753
- Language: English
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Charles Portis: Collected Works (Loa #369): Norwood / True Grit / The Dog of the South / Masters of Atlantis / Gringos / Stories & Other Writings
$45.00 Add to cartThe ultimate Portis: for the first time in one collector’s volume, the complete fiction and collected nonfiction of the author of True Grit
Summer reading recommendation in THE WASHINGTON POST, THE WA- Author: Portis, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1216
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1598537466
- Language: English
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Black Writers of the Founding Era (Loa #366): A Library of America Anthology
$40.00 Read moreA radical new vision of the nation’s founding era and a major act of historical recovery
Featuring more than 120 writers, this groundbreaking anthology reveals the astonishing richness and diversity o- Author: Basker, James G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 750
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1598537342
- Language: English
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