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The Library of america Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s & 40s Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s multi-author anthologies The Debate on the Constitution: Part One: American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings September 1787 to February 1788 to Emancipation The Debate on the Constitution: American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Part Two: January to August 1788 Thoreau Harlem Renaissance Novels: Five Novels of the 1920s American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny Harlem Renaissance Novels: Four Novels of the 1930s from Poe to the Pulps Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny 1941–1963 from the 1940s to Now Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism American Poetry: The Seventeenth & Eighteenth 1963–1973 Centuries Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, 1959–1969 Volume One : Freneau to Whitman Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, 1969–1975 Volume Two : Melville to Stickney, American Reporting World War II: American Journalism Indian Poetry, Folk Songs & Spirituals 1938–1944 American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Reporting World War II: American Journalism Volume One : Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker 1944–1946 American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Slave Narratives Volume Two : E.E. Cummings to May Swenson The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence henry adams American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels History of the United States During the 1953 –1956 Administrations of Jefferson (1801–1809) American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels History of the United States During the 1956 –1958 Administrations of Madison (1809–1817) American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther Novels, Mont Saint Michel, The Education King Jr. American Speeches: Political Oratory from Abraham john adams Lincoln to Bill Clinton Revolutionary Writings 1755 –1775 American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolutionary Writings 1775 –1783 Revolution to the Civil War The American Stage: Writings on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner james agee Film Writing & Selected Journalism The Civil War: The First Year Told By Those Who Lived It Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction The Civil War: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It — 1— Louisa may alcott charles W. chesnutt Little Women, Little Men, Jo’s Boys Stories, Novels, & Essays

sherwood anderson john cheever Collected Stories Collected Stories & Other Writings Complete Novels john ashbery Collected Poems 1956–1987 Kate chopin Complete Novels & Stories john james audubon Writings & Drawings james fenimore cooper The Leatherstocking Tales: Volume One james baldwin The Leatherstocking Tales: Volume Two Collected Essays Sea Tales Early Novels & Stories hart crane William bartram Complete Poems & Selected Letters Travels & Other Writings stephen crane saul bellow Prose & Poetry Novels 1944–1953 Novels 1956–1964 richard henry Dana jr. Novels 1970 –1982 Two Years Before the Mast & Other Voyages ambrose bierce Philip K. Dick The Devil’s Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs Four Novels of the 1960s Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s elizabeth bishop VALIS & Later Novels Poems, Prose, & Letters john Dos Passos Paul bowles Novels 1920–1925 Collected Stories & Later Writings Travel Books & Other Writings 1916–1941 The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The U.S.A. Spider’s House frederick Douglass charles brockden brown Autobiographies Three Gothic Novels Theodore Dreiser raymond carver An American Tragedy Collected Stories Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men

Willa cather W.e.b. Du bois Early Novels & Stories Writings Later Novels Stories, Poems, & Other Writings ralph Waldo emerson Collected Poems & Translations raymond chandler Essays & Lectures Stories & Early Novels Selected Journals 1820–1842 Later Novels & Other Writings Selected Journals 1841–1877

— 2— james T. farrell Zora neale hurston Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings Novels & Stories William faulkner Novels 1926–1929 Washington irving Novels 1930–1935 Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveller, Novels 1936–1940 The Alhambra Novels 1942–1954 History, Tales & Sketches Novels 1957–1962 Three Western Narratives f. scott fitzgerald shirley jackson Novels & Stories 1920–1922 Novels & Stories benjamin franklin henry james Autobiography, Poor Richard, & Later Writings Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain & America Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body, & Early Writings Collected Travel Writings: The Continent Complete Stories 1864–1874 robert frost Complete Stories 1874–1884 Collected Poems, Prose & Plays Complete Stories 1884–1891 Complete Stories 1892–1898 john Kenneth Galbraith Complete Stories 1898–1910 The Affluent Society & Other Writings 1952 –1967 Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature, American Writers & English Writers David Goodis Literary Criticism: French Writers, Other European Writers, Prefaces to the New York Edition Five Noir Novels of the 1940s & 50s Novels 1871–1880 Novels 1881–1886 Ulysses s. Grant Novels 1886–1890 Memoirs & Selected Letters Novels 1896–1899 Novels 1901–1902 alexander hamilton Novels 1903 –1911 Writings

William james Dashiell hammett Writings 1878–1899 Complete Novels Writings 1902–1910 Crime Stories & Other Writings

Thomas jefferson nathaniel hawthorne Writings Collected Novels Tales & Sketches sarah orne jewett Novels & Stories Lafcadio hearn American Writings james Weldon johnson Writings William Dean howells Novels 1875–1886 Novels 1886–1888 George s. Kaufman & co. Broadway Comedies

— 3— jack Kerouac h. L. mencken Collected Poems Prejudices: First, Second, & Third Series Road Novels 1957–1960 Prejudices: Fourth, Fifth, & Sixth Series sinclair Lewis arthur miller Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth Collected Plays 1944–1961 Main Street & Babbitt Collected Plays 1964–1982 a. j. Liebling john muir The Sweet Science & Other Writings Nature Writings World War II Writings Vladimir nabokov abraham Lincoln Novels & Memoirs 1941–1951 Speeches & Writings 1832–1858 Novels 1955–1962 Speeches & Writings 1859–1865 Novels 1969–1974 The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now frank norris Novels & Essays jack London Novels & Social Writings flannery o’connor Novels & Stories Collected Works henry Wadsworth Longfellow eugene o’neill Poems & Other Writings Complete Plays 1913–1920 Complete Plays 1920–1931 h. P. Lovecraft Complete Plays 1932–1943 Tales Thomas Paine james madison Collected Writings Writings francis Parkman john marshall France and England in North America: Volume One Writings France and England in North America: Volume Two William maxwell The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac Early Novels & Stories Later Novels & Stories edgar allan Poe Essays & Reviews carson mccullers Poetry & Tales Complete Novels Katherine anne Porter herman melville Collected Stories & Other Writings Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Billy Budd, Uncollected Prose ezra Pound Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick Poems & Translations Typee, Omoo, Mardi Dawn Powell Novels 1930–1942 Novels 1944–1962 — 4— Theodore roosevelt james Thurber Letters & Speeches Writings & Drawings The Rough Riders, An Autobiography alexis de Tocqueville Philip roth Democracy in America Novels & Stories 1959–1962 Novels 1967–1972 barbara W. Tuchman Novels 1973–1977 The Guns of August, The Proud Tower Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy & Epilogue 1979 –1985 mark Twain Novels & Other Narratives 1986–1991 Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays Novels 1993 –1995 1852 –1890 The American Trilogy 1997–2000 Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1891 –1910 William T. sherman The Gilded Age & Later Novels Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman Historical Romances The Innocents Abroad & Roughing It isaac bashevis singer Mississippi Writings Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to The Letter A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Writer Travels Collected Stories: A Friend of Kafka to Passions The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Collected Stories: One Night In Brazil to The Life & Works Death Of Methuselah Kurt Vonnegut capt. john smith Novels & Stories 1963–1973 Writings, with Other Narratives of Roanoke, Novels & Stories 1950–1962 Jamestown, and the First English Settlement of America Lynd Ward Gertrude stein Gods’ Man, Madman’s Drum, Wild Pilgrimage Writings 1903–1932 Prelude to a Million Years, Song Without Words, Vertigo Writings 1932–1946

George Washington john steinbeck Writings Novels & Stories 1932–1937 The Grapes of Wrath & Other Writings 1936–1941 eudora Welty Novels 1942–1952 Complete Novels Travels with Charley & Later Novels 1947–1962 Stories, Essays, & Memoir

Wallace stevens nathanael West Collected Poetry & Prose Novels & Other Writings harriet beecher stowe edith Wharton Three Novels Collected Stories 1891–1910 Collected Stories 1911–1937 henry David Thoreau Novellas & Other Writings A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod Novels Collected Essays & Poems Walt Whitman Poetry & Prose — 5— Laura ingalls Wilder The american PoeTs ProjecT The Little House Books, Volume One The Little House Books, Volume Two James Agee: Selected Poems John Berryman: Selected Poems Thornton Wilder American Sonnets: An Anthology Collected Plays & Writings on Theater American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse The Bridge of San Luis Rey & Other Novels A. R. Ammons: Selected Poems 1926 –1948 The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks The Eighth Day, Theophilus North, Stephen Crane: Complete Poems Autobiographical Writings Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems Stephen Foster & Co.: Lyrics of America’s First Tennessee Williams Great Popular Songs Plays 1937–1955 Ira Gershwin: Selected Lyrics Plays 1957–1980 Kenneth Koch: Selected Poems Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems edmund Wilson Amy Lowell: Selected Poems Literary Essays & Reviews of the 1920s & 30s Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems Literary Essays & Reviews of the 1930s & 40s Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and Poetics richard Wright Poems from the Women’s Movement Early Works Poets of the Civil War Later Works Poets of World War II Cole Porter: Selected Lyrics Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems Muriel Rukeyser: Selected Poems Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems Anne Stevenson: Selected Poems Edith Wharton: Selected Poems Walt Whitman: Selected Poems John Greenleaf Whittier: Selected Poems William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems Yvor Winters: Selected Poems Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems

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