books by Library of America     books:     Library of America      Thomas Paine : Collected Writings : Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / ... Thomas Paine Library of America, 1995 Great Volume I am always impressed with the quality of the "Library of America" volumes.....Quality production,quality materials,quality content.....             American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (Library of America) Library of America, 2008 An excellent collection of Nature writings: With over a hundred authors contributing and Al Gore's blessing, you cannot ask for a better collection of writings from some of the best minds around. After you get a taste, it will inspire you to seek out the full editions of the books. The Library of America series ...             John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956-1987 (Library of America #187) John Ashbery Library of America, 2008 A good read for the buck I've got a couple of Ashbery poetry books around and I tried to like him, especially when some organic farmer girl, Bard grd., opened a stand at our market. I've returned to him now some ten years later with this collection - since he is one of those half dozen or so ...             William Maxwell: Later Novels and Stories: The Château / So Long, See You Tomorrow (Library of America #184) William Maxwell Library of America, 2008 A thoroughly accessible and beautifully bound edition Maxwell: Later Novels and Stories is the second volume of The Library of America's quality presentation of author William Maxwell's classic stories and novels. The writings presented were selected by editor Christopher Carduff, who also wrote the extensive notes on ...             Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch ... Philip K. Dick Library of America, 2007 FINALLY: RECOGNITION AND RESPECT FOR PKD Finally: Philip K. Dick gets the recognition and respect he deserves with his addition into the Library of America canon. This volume collects four of Dick's most compelling and visionary novels of the 1960s and serves as a great introduction to PKD's world of panic ...             Complete Novels: Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, and The Thin Man (Library of ... Dashiell Hammett Library of America, 1999 Very exciting and convenient I do like these stories, though they are so rough! It is very helpful to be able to have them all together in this one good volume, I think. But it is dangerous to read them late at night, because you either get too excited to sleep, or you dream of bad men with their ...             H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America) H. P. Lovecraft Library of America, 2005 Walk on The "Dark Side" HP Lovecraft possessed a twisted imagination, no doubt about it. I took the book out of curiosity mixed with the knowledge that any Library of America book I had ever read was an outstanding choice no matter what the subject; and I wasn't disappointed in this one ...             Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s Philip K. Dick Library of America, 2008 Re: Excellent collection As with all the Library of America titles, this collection is superbly edited and presents the best available drafts of the selections. These selections, although less famous than the titles in the earlier Library of America volume, are still interesting, ...             Philip Roth: Novels and Other Narratives 1986-1991 / The Counterlife / The Facts / Deception / Patrimony ... Philip Roth Library of America, 2008 The fifth and latest volume in the outstanding Library of America series Philip Roth emerged as one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century and a man whose talents were to stretch the boundaries of western literature and bring new life into American fiction. Capably edited by Ross Miller (Professor of English and ...             True Crime: An American Anthology Harold Schechter Library of America, 2008 Americans have had an uneasy fascination with crime since the earliest European settlements in the New World, and right from the start true crime writing became a dominant genre in American writing. True Crime: An American Anthology offers the first comprehensive look at the many ways in which American writers have explored crime in a multitude ...             Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Library of America) Alexis de Tocqueville Library of America, 2004 Essential Reading on Political Philosophy While I was delighted with Tocqueville's masterpiece per se, it's necessary to emphasize that this particular edition is superb. First, the translation is in good, fluid style; second, it is unabridged, which is essential; and third, because it included the notes and ...             Ulysses S. Grant : Memoirs and Selected Letters : Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant / Selected Letters, ... Ulysses S. Grant Library of America, 1990 A Masterpiece This book is a must-read for any Civil War or American history buff. Grant's writing is consistently clear, elegant, beautiful. He gives an engaging account of his wartime experiences that are accurate to the best of his ability, and he writes with introspection and ...             Jack Kerouac: Road Novels 1957-1960: On the Road / The Dharma Bums / The Subterraneans / Tristessa / Lonesome ... Jack Kerouac Library of America, 2007 What a great collection! Thank you Library of America for this wonderful collection. to reviewer sky, I don't think you really know Kerouac's background when you characterize him as one of the "con-men, impostors, poseurs, and talentless hacks". he was actually quite a serious - yet at the ...             Essays and Lectures: Nature: Addresses and Lectures / Essays: First and Second Series / Representative Men / ... Ralph Waldo Emerson Library of America, 1983 The Most American Book of the Collection I have lately developed a love affair with the Library of America, and this is its most important book. Emerson more than any other struck a course for the future of American letters outside the confines of the British tradition. This edition has all of the standard ...             Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue 1979-1985: The Ghost Writer / Zuckerman Unbound / The Anatomy Lesson ... Philip Roth Library of America, 2007 Highly recommended. Philip Roth: Zuckerman Bound 1979-1985 is the Library of America's fourth volume of Philip Roth's collected works. Presenting "The Ghost Writer", "Zuckerman Unbound", "The Anatomy Lesson", "The Prague Orgy", and "The Prague Orgy: A Television Adaptation" by Philip ...          products you might be interested in search for books counterlife, environmental, narratives, representative, subterraneans, tocqueville      toavi.com    web we recommend Walk on The "Dark Side" randomly chosen book: The Hebrew Yeshua vs. the Greek Jesus