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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1062 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-931082-20-4
EAN 9781931082204
Composer, writer, and an American expatriate who spent most of the last five decades of his life in Tangier, Paul Bowles, according The Boston Globe, was "one of the literary class acts of the twentieth century." This Library of America volume, containing his stories and travel writings, is one of two volumes in the first ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 983 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-931082-07-5
EAN 9781931082075
The third volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck's writings shows him continuing to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling. These four novels display the versatility and emotional directness that have made Steinbeck one of America's most enduringly popular writers. The Moon Is Down (1942), set in an ...
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In the stories and novellas he wrote for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett took the detective story and turned it into a medium for capturing the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern American life. In this volume, The Library of America collects the finest of these ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 874 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-931082-05-1
EAN 9781931082051
This paperback edition is a single-volume selection drawn from the over 1800 pages of reporting collected in the acclaimed two-volume hardcover edition. In a time when public perceptions were shaped by the written and spoken word, war correspondents were often as influential as politicians and as celebrated as movie stars. Here, for the first time ...
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Born into an upper-class New York family, Edith Wharton broke with convention and became a professional writer, earning an enduring place as the grande dame of American letters. This Library of America collection (along with its companion volume, Collected Stories: 1911–1937) presents the finest of Wharton's achievement in short fiction, drawn from the more than ...
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At the outset of what he called "the greatest, the gaudiest spree in history," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the works that brought him instant fame, mastering the glittering aphoristic prose and keen social observation that would distinguish all his writing. Celebrating the riotous energy and naïve optimism of a generation that believed itself liberated from ...
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ISBN 978-0-940450-09-7
EAN 9780940450097
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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 dura · 1020 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-88301-169-7
EAN 9781883011697
William Faulkner's fictional chronicle of Yoknapatawpha County draws to a close in this Library of America edition of his last three novels, rich with the accumulated history and lore of the microcosmic domain where he set most of his fiction. Faulkner wanted to use the time remaining to him to achieve a summing-up of his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 904 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-88301-164-2
EAN 9781883011642
Sometimes overshadowed by his work as a novelist, Henry James's short fiction is an astonishing achievement, a triumph of inventiveness and restless curiosity. This Library of America volume (the third of five volumes devoted to his short fiction) includes among its seventeen stories some of James's greatest masterpieces. "The Aspern Papers" is a stunning novella ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 703 páginas
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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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