Library Of America: 150 books
The State of Music
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Virgil Thomson had already established himself as one of the nation's leading composers when he published The State of Music (1939), the book that made his name as a writer and won him a fourteen-year stint as chief music reviewer at the New York Herald Tribune. This feisty, often hilarious polemic,...
The Great American Sports Page: A Century of Classic Columns from Ring Lardner to Sally Jenkins
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
A first-of-its-kind celebration of the newspaper scribes who made sportswriting a glorious popular art, and immortalized America's greatest games and athletes
Spanning nearly a century, The Great American Sports Page presents essential columns from more than three dozen masters of the press-box...
Black No More: A Novel
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
It’s 1933, in a near-future Harlem on the verge of massive transformation: crowds are flocking to the new Black-No-More Sanitarium, brainchild of the mysterious Dr. Junius Crookman, eager to change the color of their skin and live free of the burdens of racism and prejudice.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
“The history of Shakespeare in America,” writes James Shapiro in his introduction to this groundbreaking anthology, “is also the history of America itself.” Shakespeare was a central, inescapable part of America’s literary inheritance, and a prism through which crucial American issues—revolution,...
A Son at the Front
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Inspired by a young man Edith Wharton met during her war relief work in France, A Son at the Front(1923) opens in Paris on July 30, 1914, as Europe totters on thebrink of war. Expatriate American painter John Campton, whose only son George, having been born in Paris, must report for duty in the...
Into the Blue: American Writing on Aviation and Spaceflight
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Into the Blue revisits the remarkable trajectory of Americans in air and space, gathering sixty of the best eyewitness and participant narratives from Benjamin Franklin's letters on the first hot air balloons to Chris Jones's account of being marooned on the International Space Station. Here are those...
The Peanuts Papers: Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
A one-of-a-kind celebration of America's greatest comic strip--and the life lessons it can teach us--from a stellar array of writers and artists
Peanuts, Charles Schulz's beloved comic strip, has given the world a cast of characters for the ages--Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and Lucy among them....
Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (LOA #147)
A new translation by Arthur Goldhammer
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2004
Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocratic French lawyer, came to the United States in 1831 to study its penitentiary systems. His nine-month visit and subsequent reading and reflection resulted in Democracy in America (1835–40), a landmark masterpiece of political observation and analysis. Tocqueville...
Sleep with Slander
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
"You’re playing with a child’s life”: The search for a kidnapped boy leads private detective (and ex-alcoholic) Jim Sader through a labyrinth of well-hidden family secrets and into the heart of an elaborate and malevolent deception. Sleep with a Slander is a novel in the classic hardboiled tradition, tough, compassionate, and tautly told.
Sleep with Strangers
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
“Are you trying to tell me you don’t want the job, Mr. Sader?”: It started as a missing persons case and grew more puzzling with the discovery of another strangely coincidental disappearance. Private eye Jim Sader finds himself deep in a multilayered intrigue revolving around oil and real estate...
by Lynd Ward
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
In this, the second of two volumes collecting all his woodcut novels, The Library of America brings together Lynd Ward’s three later books, two of them brief, the visual equivalent of chamber music, the other his longest, a symphony in three movements. Prelude to a Million Years (1933) is a...
Cane
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Jean Toomer’s revolutionary masterpiece Cane (1923) ushered in the era we now know as the Harlem Renaissance, and has come to be considered one of the classic works of American literary modernism. A boldly experimental “novel” mixing prose, poetry, and dramatic sketches, the book’s hallmark...
The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Space-opera heroines, gender-bending aliens, post-apocalyptic pregnancies, changeling children, interplanetary battles of the sexes, and much more: a groundbreaking new collection of classic American science fiction by women from the 1920s to the 1960s
SF-expert Lisa Yaszek presents the biggest...
The Able McLaughlins
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
The riveting Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, available as an e-book for the first time.
Wully McLaughlin returns to his family’s Iowa homestead at the end of the Civil War to find his sweetheart, Chirstie McNair, alone and in distress, her mother dead and her wayward father gone. Perplexed...