Library of America
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John Updike novels 1959-1965 , Library of America volume 311
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John Updike novels 1968-1975 , Library of America volume 326
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Library of America volume 333
Pub. Date
[2020]
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lx, 1,110 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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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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John Updike novels 1978-1984 , Library of America volume 339
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Jean Stafford: complete stories & other writings , Library of America volume 342
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Black Reconstruction: an essay toward a history of the part which Black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880 , Library of America volume 350
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Library of America volume 357
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxxviii, 1,067 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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"Gary Snyder is one of America's indispensable poets, the "Thoreau of the Beat Generation" and our "laureate of Deep Ecology." Now, for the first time, all of Snyder's poetry is gathered in a single, authoritative Library of America volume. Here are all of Snyder's published books of poetry spanning a career of almost seventy years. Early collections such as Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, Myths & Texts, and The Back Country reflect his hardscrabble...
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Frederick Douglass: speeches & writings , Library of America volume 358
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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xxx, 731 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
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English
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"For the first time, here is the full, definitive story of the movement for voting rights for American women, of every race, told through the voices of the women and men who lived it. Here are the most recognizable figures in the campaign for women's suffrage, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, but also the black, Chinese, and American Indian women and men who were not only essential to the movement but expanded its directions and aims....
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Donald Barthelme: collected stories
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Elizabeth Spencer novels & stories: The voice at the back door / The light in the Piazza / Knights and dragons / Selected stories
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Joan Didion: the 1980s & 90s
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Plymouth Colony: narratives of English-Indian encounter from the Mayflower to King Philip's War
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Ray Bradbury novels & story cycles: The Martian chronicles / Fahrenheit 451 / Dandelion wine / Something wicked this way comes
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S. J. Perelman: Writings
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Don Delillo: three novels of the 1980s
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings, 1920-26
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The future Is female!: the 1970s: more classic science fiction stories by women
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Oscar Hijuelos: the Mambo Kings and other novels
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[2022]
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x, 979 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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In one authoritative volume, here are two landmark story collections by one of America's most beloved authors, plus 27 stellar, speculative, and strange tales from other collections, including 7 restored to print The author of over 400 short stories, Ray Bradbury was a master not only in the science fiction genre, for which he is best known, but also in speculative, horror, and dark fantasy. Here are two of Bradbury's most beloved collections, along...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xix, 747 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"Mythmaker, master storyteller, and a writer powerfully attuned to the land and history of his native New Mexico, Rudolfo Anaya is one of the undisputed fathers of Chicano literature. Writing in an era when Latino voices were marginalized and just beginning to be read and acknowledged, Anaya broke new ground with Bless Me, Ultima (1972), a mythic novel that captures the richness and complexity of history, community, and place in the American Southwest....
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[2023]
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lxi, 706 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
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English
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"For too long, African Americans have been left out of the story of the nation's founding, their voices absent from the memory and celebration of the creation of the American republic. Black Writers of the Founding Era--by far the richest and most expansive anthology of its kind ever assembled--restores these voices. The writings gathered here reveal the complexity and dynamism of African American life and culture in the period and show how the principles...
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Pub. Date
2019
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English
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“Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin
When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed “genre” literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from fashionable...
—Ursula K. Le Guin
When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed “genre” literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from fashionable...
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Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
“Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin
When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed “genre” literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from fashionable...
—Ursula K. Le Guin
When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed “genre” literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from fashionable...