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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 · 512 páginas
PVP: 29,75 €
ISBN 978-1-59853-065-0
EAN 9781598530650
"Mark Twain," William Faulkner once observed, "was the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs." In this unique collection scores of these literary legatees from the U.S. and around the world take the measure of Twain and his genius, among them: JosA(c) MartA-, Rudyard Kipling, Theodor Herzl, George Bernard Shaw, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1050 páginas
PVP: 40,00 €
ISBN 978-1-59853-066-7
EAN 9781598530667
It was as a humorous travel writer, in "The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It," that Mark Twain first became widely known, and at the height of his career he returned to the genre in the works collected here. Like those earlier books, the frequently hilarious "A Tramp Abroad" (1880)-based on his family's 16-month sojourn in ...
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ISBN 978-0-940450-22-6
EAN 9780940450226
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ISBN 978-0-940450-65-3
EAN 9780940450653
Sherman is the most controversial general of the American Civil War, . Written with th energetic confidence that marked his later campaigns, his Memoirs provides both a vivid firsthand account of crucial events of the Civil War and a unique record of the emergence of its most innovative strategist.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-59853-015-5
EAN 9781598530155
When American poets turn to the sonnet, they invest it with a glamour and intensity equal to anything they have to show in more flamboyant, new-minted shapes. Like a symphony by Copland or a nude by de Kooning, an American sonnet marries European artistic tradition to New World innovation and expansiveness. Something old and familiar ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 168 páginas
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-1-59853-052-0
EAN 9781598530520
Ira Gershwin once remarked that he always tried to 'capture the way people spoke to each other'their slang, their clichés, the catch phrases.' Few people in ordinary life, of course, can muster the humor, vivacity, and emotional directness that Gershwin brought to his lyrics. His collaboration with his brother George'one of the summits of American ...
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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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PVP: 31,50 €
ISBN 978-1-59853-038-4
EAN 9781598530384
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PVP: 36,00 €
ISBN 978-1-931082-83-9
EAN 9781931082839
Together for the first time: Two Years Before the Mast, the thrilling nautical classic by one of America's first and greatest travel writers, along with hard-to-find narratives of Dana's later journeys to Cuba and Asia.
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PVP: 34,85 €
ISBN 9781598530339
EAN 9781598530339
For the bicentennial of his birth, Lincoln and his enduring legacy are the focus of 85 major authors and important historical figures from his time to the present. Among the writers included are Winston Churchill, H.G. Wells, Garry Wills, and many others
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 731 páginas
PVP: 36,60 €
ISBN 978-1-59853-045-2
EAN 9781598530452
Thornton Wilder was the rare writer whose achievements as a playwright were matched by equal abilities as a novelist. As companion to its volume of Wilder's collected plays, The Library of America's edition of his early novels and stories brings together five novels that highlight his wit, erudition, innovative formal structures, and philosophical wisdom.Drawing on ...
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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 · 933 páginas
PVP: 31,75 €
ISBN 978-1-59853-035-3
EAN 9781598530353
"John Cheever is one of the few living American novelists," wrote John Gardner in 1977, "who might qualify as true artists. His work ranges from competent to awesome on all the grounds I would count: formal and technical mastery; educated intelligence; what I call 'artistic sincerity,' . . . and last, validity, or what Tolstoy ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1040 páginas
PVP: 35,45 €
ISBN 978-1-59853-034-6
EAN 9781598530346
John Cheever's stories rank among the finest achievements of 20th-century short fiction. Ensnared by the trappings of affluence, adrift in the emptiness of American prosperity, his characters find themselves in the midst of dramas that, however comic, pose profound questions about conformity and class, pleasure and propriety, and the conduct and meaning of an individual ...
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PVP: 32,00 €
ISBN 978-1-883011-91-8
EAN 9781883011918
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 767 páginas
PVP: 41,15 €
ISBN 978-1-59853-030-8
EAN 9781598530308
This fifth volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works presents four books that exemplify the description of Roth, proposed by British novelist Anthony Burgess, as a writer "who never steps twice into the same river."The Counterlife (1986) is a book of astonishing 180-degree turns, of conflicting perspectives and points ...
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