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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 598 páginas
PVP: 31,80 €
ISBN 978-1-59853-199-2
EAN 9781598531992
What kind of choices fatally shape a life? How does the individual withstand the onslaught of circumstance? These are the dark questions that animate "Nemeses," the quartet of thematically related short novels that are published here together for the first time in this final volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 67,50 €
ISBN 978-1-59853-163-3
EAN 9781598531633
Here, for his centennial, is the definitive two-volume edition of the stories and novels of John Cheever. The first volume, Collected Stories and Other Writings, combines the Pulitzer Prize winning collection The Stories of John Cheever with seven selections here restored to print from Cheever's first book, The Way Some People Live (1943) and seven ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1264 páginas
PVP: 50,25 €
ISBN 978-1-59853-145-9
EAN 9781598531459
The Guns of August (1962), a riveting account of the outbreak of World War I and the weeks of fighting leading up to the First Battle of the Marne in September 1914. Tuchman dramatizes the diplomatic debacles that precipitated the war and the intransigence of the German and French armies as they dogmatically adhered to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 864 páginas
PVP: 40,25 €
ISBN 978-1-59853-102-2
EAN 9781598531022
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 Soldiers and Civilians), ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 851 páginas
PVP: 38,60 €
ISBN 978-1-59853-098-8
EAN 9781598530988
Like 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 be. His cunningly relaxed delivery was so original, so finely calibrated, and so profound an articulation of the Sixties' ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 757 páginas
PVP: 23,00 €
ISBN 978-1-59853-097-1
EAN 9781598530971
In 1855, a small volume appeared, self-published by a failed Brooklyn journalist and carpenter: twelve untitled poems and a preface announcing the author's aims. A commercial failure, this book was the first stage of a massive, lifelong enterprise. Six editions and thirty-seven years later, Leaves of Grass had been recognized as one of the central ...
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The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a ...
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Born in slavery, Douglass, educated himself, escaped, and became one of the greatest leaders in American history. Here in one volume are his three autobiographical narratives: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845); My Bondage and My Freedom (1855); and Life and Times (1881).
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 960 páginas
PVP: 55,00 €
ISBN 978-1-59853-046-9
EAN 9781598530469
Carver transformed the American short story in the 1970s and 80s with spare, intense, often disturbing dramas. Gathering for the first time all Carver's stories, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of Carver's career.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 980 páginas
PVP: 44,75 €
ISBN 978-1-59853-017-9
EAN 9781598530179
This unprecedented collection from The Library of America offers a full-scale presentation of a writer of startling originality, at once passionate and reticent, adventurous and perfectionist. It presents all the poetry that Bishop published in her lifetime, in such classic volumes as North x{0026} South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel, and Geography III. In ...
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The raucous, exuberant, often wildly funny account of a journey through America and Mexico, Jack Kerouac's On the Road instantly defined a generation on its publication in 1957: it was, in the words of a New York Times reviewer, "the clearest and most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1029 páginas
PVP: 41,75 €
ISBN 978-1-931082-38-9
EAN 9781931082389
Winner of the Nobel Prize and a towering figure of 20th-century literature, Saul Bellow secured his place as one of the most distinctive and significant writers of the postwar era with the publication of his third novel, The Adventures of Augie March. This Library of America volume collects all three of Bellow's early works, beginning ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 879 páginas
PVP: 45,50 €
ISBN 978-1-931082-39-6
EAN 9781931082396
Written in the decade before the publication of his famous U.S.A. trilogy, the three early novels collected in this Library of America volume record the emergence of John Dos Passos as a bold and accomplished chronicler of the upheavals of the early 20th century. Dos Passos drew upon his experiences as a volunteer ambulance driver ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1150 páginas
PVP: 47,25 €
ISBN 978-0-940450-15-8
EAN 9780940450158
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The five novels that Hammett published between 1929 and 1934, collected here in one Library of America volume, have become part of modern American culture, creating archetypal characters and establishing the ground rules and characteristic tone for a whole tradition of hardboiled writing. Drawing on his own experiences as a Pinkerton detective, Hammett gave a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 703 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-88301-175-8
EAN 9781883011758
Gathers stories and essays prominent in the career of the nineteenth-century American writer.
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