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Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs by Ambrose Bierce; S. T. Joshi (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Library of America (Hardcover)
A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldi ...Show more
Art in America 1945-1970 - Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism: (Library of America #259) by Various
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Category: Art | Series: Library of America
Experience the creative explosion that transformed American art, in the words of the artists, writers, and critics who were there: In the quarter century after the end of World War II, a new generation of painters, sculptors, and photographers transformed the face of American art and shifted the center ...Show more
Barbara Tuchman: The Guns of August & the Proud Tower by Margaret MacMillan
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Category: War | Series: Library of America
Writing with a clarity, grace, and novelistic sweep rare among historians, Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) distilled the complex interplay of personalities and events into gripping narratives that fuse rigorous scholarship with elegant literary art. An astute portraitist, she brilliantly laid bare the al ...Show more
Dom Casmurro by Machado De Assis
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Library of Latin America
This crisp new translation by John Gledson is the only complete, unabridged, and annotated edition available of one of the most distinctive novels of the turn of the century.
Essays & Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Category: Essays | Series: Library of America Ralph Waldo Emerson Edition Ser.
Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called "the great and crescive self," he dramatizes and records its vicissitudes. Here are all the indispensable and most renowned works ...Show more
James Baldwin - Collected Essays by James Baldwin; Toni Morrison (ed.)
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Category: Essays | Series: Library of America James Baldwin Edition Ser.
James Baldwin was a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. His brilliant and provocative essays made him the literary voice of the Civil Rights Era, and they continue to speak with powerful urgency to us today, whether in the swirling debate over the Black Lives Matter movement or in the words of ...Show more
Philip Roth: The American Trilogy by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction | Series: Library of America
Gathered together for the first time in this seventh volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works is the acclaimed "American Trilogy," a major milestone in contemporary American literature. In "American Pastoral" (1997), Swede Levov is wrenched from the tranquil ...Show more
The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner by Lawrence Senelick
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Category: Theatre | Series: Library of America
Here is the story, told firsthand through electric, deeply engaged writing, of America's living theater, high and low, mainstream and experimental. Drawing on history, criticism, memoir, fiction, poetry, and parody, editor Laurence Senelick presents writers with the special knack "to distill both the im ...Show more
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