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- Library Of America, 2008
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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- Library Of America, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 200 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-59853-006-3
EAN 9781598530063
Kenneth Koch, in the words of editor Ron Padgett, wrote poetry that became a part of "the mystery and pleasure of being alive." A center of the New York School, he gained notoriety by mocking the stodginess and academicism of much mid-century verse. This enthralling selection encompasses the full range of Koch's poetry, and includes ...
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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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- Library Of America, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-1-931082-94-5
EAN 9781931082945
Cole Porter possessed to a singular degree the art of expressing depth through apparent frivolity. The effervescent wit and technical bravura of his songs are matched by their unguarded revelations of feeling. In the words of editor Robert Kimball, "Porter wrote tellingly of the pain and evanescence of emotional relationships. He gently mocked propriety and ...
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- Library Of America, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 838 páginas
PVP: 31,75 €
ISBN 978-1-931082-72-3
EAN 9781931082723
The Call of Cthulhu The Colour Out of Space At the Mountains of Madness The Shadow Over Innsmouth The Shadow Out of Time and 17 other stories A 20th-century successor to Edgar Allan Poe as the master of "weird fiction," Howard Philips Lovecraft once wrote, "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and ...
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When Isaac Bashevis Singer received the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 74, the award crowned an extraordinary career that began in the thriving, contentious literary milieu of Jewish Warsaw in the 1920s and 1930s and continued through Singer's long residence in New York City. In his last years Singer continued to ...
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Isaac Bashevis Singer once claimed that he preferred writing stories to novels because the short-story form brought perfection within reach. The 65 stories gathered here show Singer striving for and often achieving such perfection, crafting tales that fuse crystalline storytelling with an unnerving exploration of erotic passion and irrational desire, family life and religious piety, ...
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- Library Of America, 2004
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PVP: 31,80 €
ISBN 978-1-931082-54-9
EAN 9781931082549
"Democracy in America" is "the" classic analysis of America's unique political character, quoted heavily by politicians and perennially popping up on history professors' reading lists. The book's enduring appeal lies in the prophetic voice of de Tocqueville (1805-1859), a French aristocrat who visited the United States in 1831.
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- Library Of America, 2003
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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- Library Of America, 2003
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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- Library Of America, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-931082-51-8
EAN 9781931082518
One of America's most admired living poets revisits the poetry of Poe, exploring the philosophical seriousness of verse often identified with its macabre and gothic surfaces. Here is the whole canon of Poe's mature poetry, along with a judicious selection of prose writings that illuminate Poe's poetic goals. "Our poetry, in Poe's view, must specialize ...
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London's attitudes toward society, his concern for the down-and-out, and his own struggles to become a writer are detailed in novels and essays
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- Library Of America, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1150 páginas
PVP: 47,25 €
ISBN 978-0-940450-15-8
EAN 9780940450158
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- Library Of America, 2002
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PVP: 36,00 €
ISBN 978-1-931082-21-1
EAN 9781931082211
From ruined Louisiana plantations to bustling, cosmopolitan New Orleans, Kate Chopin wrote with unflinching honesty about propriety and its strictures, the illusions of love and the realities of marriage, and the persistence of a past scarred by slavery and war. Her stories of fiercely independent women, culminating in her masterpiece "The Awakening" (1899), challenged contemporary ...
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