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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1009 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-88301-154-3
EAN 9781883011543
One of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, Eudora Welty's novels and stories blend the storytelling tradition of the South with a modernist sensibility attuned to the mysteries and ambiguities of experience. In this Library of America volume and its companion, Welty explores the complex abundance of southern, and particularly southern women's, lives ...
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Encuadernación en tapa dura · 869 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-883011-51-2
EAN 9781883011512
"The civil rights struggle," said The New York Times Book Review, "found eloquent expression in Baldwin's novels. His historical importance is indisputable." Here, in a Library of America volume edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, is the fiction that established James Baldwin's reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism and rare verbal eloquence. His ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1030 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-88301-145-1
EAN 9781883011451
Here are all of Stevens' published books of poetry, side-by-side for the first time along with the haunting lyrics of his later years and early work that traces the development of his art. From the rococo inventiveness of Harmonium, his first volume, through "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," "Esthétique du Mal," and the other large-scale ...
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ISBN 978-1-88301-114-7
EAN 9781883011147
Unique among American books for its epic scope and panoramic social sweep, U.S.A. has long been acknowledged as a monument of modern fiction. Now The Library of America presents an exclusive one-volume edition of this enduring masterwork by John Dos Passos, including for the first time detailed notes and a chronicle of the world events ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 946 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-883011-10-9
EAN 9781883011109
The thirty-one stories presented here are the culmination of James's glorious final period. Among them are the extraordinary fantasies "The Great Good Place" and "The Jolly Corner," in which supernatural motifs are used hauntingly to express undercurrents of yearning and dislocation; "Julia Bride," a character portrait akin to "Daisy Miller," in which a young American ...
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With humor, along with an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling details of dress and behavior, Raymond Chandler created a distinctive fictional universe out of the dark side of sunlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both crime writing and the American language. br br Written during the war, The Lady in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 976 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-88301-106-2
EAN 9781883011062
Celebrated at home and abroad, Robert Frost is America's greatest 20th-century poet and a towering figure in American letters. Here, based on extensive research into his manuscripts and published work, is the first authoritative and truly comprehensive collection of his writings. Brought together for the first time in a single volume is all the major ...
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In his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), the classic private eye finds his full-fledged form as Philip Marlowe: at once tough, independent, brash, disillusioned, and sensitiveand man of weary honor threading his way (in Chandler's phrase) "down these mean streets" among blackmailers, pornographers, and murderers for hire. In Farewell, My Lovely (1940), Chandler's personal ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1110 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-940450-85-1
EAN 9780940450851
The years 1942 to 1954 saw William Faulkner's rise to literary celebrity sought after by Hollywood, lionized by the critics, awarded a Nobel Prize in 1950 and the Pulitzer and National Book Award for 1954. But, despite his success, he was plagued by depression and alcohol and haunted by a sense that he had more ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 909 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-883011-01-7
EAN 9781883011017
John Steinbeck, from the very start of his career, evoked the landscape and people of central California with lyrical intensity and unflinching frankness. The Library of America presents for the first time in one volume Steinbeck's early writings, which expressed his abiding concerns for community, social justice, and the elemental connection between nature and human ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1039 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-940450-71-4
EAN 9780940450714
Willa Cather, one of the great American novelists of the 20th century, also wrote some of America's best short fiction. From her haunting first story, Peter, the tale of a Bohemian immigrant who brought his violin to the raw western frontier, to her posthumously published The Best Years, the stories included here span the fifty ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 936 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-940450-66-0
EAN 9780940450660
Native Son exploded on the American literary scene in 1940. The story of Bigger Thomas, a young black man living in the raw, noisy, crowded slums of Chicago's South Side, captured the hopes and yearnings, the pain and rage of black Americans with an unprecedented intensity and vividness. The text printed in this volume restores ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1148 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-940450-55-4
EAN 9780940450554
The four novels in this Library of America collection show Faulkner at the height of his powers and fully demonstrate the range of his genius. They explore the tragic and comic aspects of a South haunted by its past and uncertain of its future. In the intricate, spellbinding masterpiece Absalom, Absalom! (1936), Quentin Compson descends ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 1300 páginas
PVP: 51,25 €
ISBN 978-0-940450-37-0
EAN 9780940450370
In her short lifetime, Flannery O'Connor became one of the most distinctive American writers of the twentieth century. By birth a native of Georgia and a Roman Catholic, O'Connor depicts, in all its comic and horrendous incongruity, the limits of worldly wisdom and the mysteries of divine grace in the Christ-haunted Protestant South. This Library ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1034 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-940450-26-4
EAN 9780940450264
Between 1930 and 1935, William Faulkner came into full possession of the genius and creativity that made him one of America's finest writers of the twentieth century. The four novels in this Library of America collection display an astonishing range of characters and treatments in his Depression-era fiction. As I Lay Dying (1930) is a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1478 páginas
PVP: 45,00 €
ISBN 978-0-940450-24-0
EAN 9780940450240
Forgoing the narratives of the sea that prevailed in his earlier works, Melville's later fiction contains some of the finest and many of his keenest and bleakest observations of life, not on the high seas, but at home in America. With the publication of this Library of America volume, the third of three volumes, all ...
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The first volume in what will eventually be a complete James presents five early novels filled with sparkling dialogue, masterfully timed suspense, and the romance of youthful and artistic aspiration: Watch and Ward, Roderick Hudson, The American, The Europeans, and Confidence. They appear in their original early versions, without the revisions James added in his ...
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This Library of America edition is the biggest and best edition of Walt Whitman's writings ever published. It includes all of his poetry and what he considered his complete prose. It is also the only collection that includes, in exactly the form in which it appeared in 1855, the first edition of Leaves of Grass. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1493 páginas
PVP: 40,80 €
ISBN 978-0-940450-03-5
EAN 9780940450035
Gathers all of Hawthorne's stories, including his retellings of classical myths for children
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