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The Library of America Series THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA SERIES The Library of America fosters appreciation and pride in America’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, authoritative editions of America’s best and most signifi cant writing. An independent nonprofi t organization, it was founded in 1979 with seed funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation. 1. Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi 33. Frank Norris: Novels and Essays 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tales and 34. W.E.B. Du Bois: Writings Sketches 35. Willa Cather: Early Novels and Stories 3. Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose 36. Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie, 4. Harriet Beecher Stowe: Three Novels Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men 5. Mark Twain: Mississippi Writings 37a. Benjamin Franklin: Silence Dogood, 6. Jack London: Novels and Stories The Busy-Body, & Early Writings 7. Jack London: Novels and Social 37b. Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Writings Poor Richard, & Later Writings 8. William Dean Howells: Novels 1875–1886 38. William James: Writings 1902–1910 9. Herman Melville: Redburn, 39. Flannery O’Connor: Collected Works White-Jacket, Moby-Dick 40. Eugene O’Neill: Complete Plays 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels 1913–1920 11. Francis Parkman: France and 41. Eugene O’Neill: Complete Plays 1920–1931 England in North America, vol. I 42. Eugene O’Neill: Complete Plays 1932–1943 12. Francis Parkman: France and 43. Henry James: Novels 1886–1890 England in North America, vol. II 44. William Dean Howells: Novels 1886–1888 13. Henry James: Novels 1871–1880 45. Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and 14. Henry Adams: Novels, Mont Saint Writings 1832–1858 Michel, The Education 46. Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and 15. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Writings 1859–1865 Lectures 47. Edith Wharton: Novellas and Other 16. Washington Irving: History, Tales Writings and Sketches 48. William Faulkner: Novels 1936–1940 17. Thomas Jeff erson: Writings 49. Willa Cather: Later Novels 18. Stephen Crane: Prose and Poetry 50. Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs and 19. Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales Selected Letters 20. Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and Reviews 51. William Tecumseh Sherman: Memoirs 21. Mark Twain: The Innocents Abroad, 52. Washington Irving: Bracebridge Hall, Roughing It Tales of a Traveller, The Alhambra 22. Henry James: Literary Criticism: 53. Francis Parkman: The Oregon Trail, Essays, American & English Writers The Conspiracy of Pontiac 23. Henry James: Literary Criticism: 54. James Fenimore Cooper: Sea Tales: European Writers & The Prefaces The Pilot, The Red Rover 24. Herman Melville: Pierre, Israel Potter, 55. Richard Wright: Early Works The Confidence-Man, Tales & Billy 56. Richard Wright: Later Works Budd 57. Willa Cather: Stories, Poems, and 25. William Faulkner: Novels 1930–1935 Other Writings 26. James Fenimore Cooper: The 58. William James: Writings 1878–1899 Leatherstocking Tales, vol. I 59. Sinclair Lewis: Main Street & Babbitt 27. James Fenimore Cooper: The 60. Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Leatherstocking Tales, vol. II Speeches, & Essays 1852–1890 28. Henry David Thoreau: A Week, 61. Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod Speeches, & Essays 1891–1910 29. Henry James: Novels 1881–1886 62. The Debate on the Constitution: Part One 30. Edith Wharton: Novels 63. The Debate on the Constitution: Part Two 31. Henry Adams: History of the U.S. 64. Henry James: Collected Travel during the Administrations of Jeff erson Writings: Great Britain & America 32. Henry Adams: History of the U.S. 65. Henry James: Collected Travel during the Administrations of Madison Writings: The Continent SSeries_Alcott_LOA_791313.indderies_Alcott_LOA_791313.indd 889696 33/24/14/24/14 11:45:45 PPMM 66. American Poetry: The Nineteenth 105. Reporting Vietnam: American Century, Vol. 1 Journalism 1969–1975 67. American Poetry: The Nineteenth 106. Henry James: Complete Stories 1874–1884 Century, Vol. 2 107. Henry James: Complete Stories 1884–1891 68. Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies 108. American Sermons: The Pilgrims to 69. Sarah Orne Jewett: Novels and Stories Martin Luther King Jr. 70. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Collected 109. James Madison: Writings Poems and Translations 110. Dashiell Hammett: Complete Novels 71. Mark Twain: Historical Romances 111. Henry James: Complete Stories 1864–1874 72. John Steinbeck: Novels and Stories 112. William Faulkner: Novels 1957–1962 1932–1937 113. John James Audubon: Writings & 73. William Faulkner: Novels 1942–1954 Drawings 74. Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories 114. Slave Narratives 75. Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, 115. American Poetry: The Twentieth Memoirs, and Other Writings Century, Vol. 1 76. Thomas Paine: Collected Writings 116. American Poetry: The Twentieth 77. Reporting World War II: American Century, Vol. 2 Journalism 1938–1944 117. F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels and Stories 78. Reporting World War II: American 1920–1922 Journalism 1944–1946 118. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems 79. Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early and Other Writings Novels 119. Tennessee Williams: Plays 1937–1955 80. Raymond Chandler: Later Novels and 120. Tennessee Williams: Plays 1957–1980 Other Writings 121. Edith Wharton: Collected Stories 1891–1910 81. Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, 122. Edith Wharton: Collected Stories & Plays 1911–1937 82. Henry James: Complete Stories 1892–1898 123. The American Revolution: Writings 83. Henry James: Complete Stories 1898–1910 from the War of Independence 84. William Bartram: Travels and Other 124. Henry David Thoreau: Collected Writings Essays and Poems 85. John Dos Passos: U.S.A. 125. Dashiell Hammett: Crime Stories and 86. John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath Other Writings and Other Writings 1936–1941 126. Dawn Powell: Novels 1930–1942 87. Vladimir Nabokov: Novels and 127. Dawn Powell: Novels 1944–1962 Memoirs 1941–1951 128. Carson McCullers: Complete Novels 88. Vladimir Nabokov: Novels 1955–1962 129. Alexander Hamilton: Writings 89. Vladimir Nabokov: Novels 1969–1974 130. Mark Twain: The Gilded Age and 90. James Thurber: Writings and Drawings Later Novels 91. George Washington: Writings 131. Charles W. Chesnutt: Stories, Novels, 92. John Muir: Nature Writings and Essays 93. Nathanael West: Novels and Other 132. John Steinbeck: Novels 1942–1952 Writings 133. Sinclair Lewis: Arrowsmith, Elmer 94. Crime Novels: American Noir of the Gantry, Dodsworth 1930s and 40s 134. Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky, Let 95. Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s It Come Down, The Spider’s House 96. Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and 135. Paul Bowles: Collected Stories & Prose Later Writings 97. James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories 136. Kate Chopin: Complete Novels & 98. James Baldwin: Collected Essays Stories 99. Gertrude Stein: Writings 1903–1932 137. Reporting Civil Rights: American 100. Gertrude Stein: Writings 1932–1946 Journalism 1941–1963 101. Eudora Welty: Complete Novels 138. Reporting Civil Rights: American 102. Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, & Memoir Journalism 1963–1973 103. Charles Brockden Brown: Three 139. Henry James: Novels 1896–1899 Gothic Novels 140. Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy 104. Reporting Vietnam: American 141. Saul Bellow: Novels 1944–1953 Journalism 1959–1969 142. John Dos Passos: Novels 1920–1925 SSeries_Alcott_LOA_791313.indderies_Alcott_LOA_791313.indd 889797 33/24/14/24/14 11:45:45 PPMM 143. John Dos Passos: Travel Books and 183. Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s Other Writings & 70s 144. Ezra Pound: Poems and Translations 184. William Maxwell: Later Novels & Stories 145. James Weldon Johnson: Writings 185. Philip Roth: Novels & Other 146. Washington Irving: Three Western Narratives 1986–1991 Narratives 186. Katherine Anne Porter: Collected 147. Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in Stories & Other Writings America 187. John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956–1987 148. James T. Farrell: Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy 188. John Cheever: Collected Stories & 149. Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories I Other Writings 150. Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories II 189. John Cheever: Complete Novels 151. Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected 190. Lafcadio Hearn: American Writings Stories III 191. A. J. Liebling: The Sweet Science & 152. Kaufman & Co.: Broadway Comedies Other Writings 153. Theodore Roosevelt: The Rough 192s. The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on Riders, An Autobiography His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now 154. Theodore Roosevelt: Letters and Speeches 193. Philip K. Dick: VALIS & Later Novels 155. H. P. Lovecraft: Tales 194. Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San 156. Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926–1948 Little Men, Jo’s Boys 195. Raymond Carver: Collected Stories 157. Philip Roth: Novels & Stories 1959–1962 196. American Fantastic Tales: Terror and 158. Philip Roth: Novels 1967–1972 the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps 159. James Agee: Let Us Now Praise 197. American Fantastic Tales: Terror and Famous Men, A Death in the Family the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now 160. James Agee: Film Writing & Selected 198. John Marshall: Writings Journalism 199s. The Mark Twain Anthology: Great 161. Richard Henry Dana Jr.: Two Years Writers on His Life and Works Before the Mast & Other Voyages 200. Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, 162. Henry James: Novels 1901–1902 Following the Equator, Other Travels 163. Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1944–1961 201. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected 164. William Faulkner: Novels 1926–1929 Journals 1820–1842 165. Philip Roth: Novels 1973–1977 202. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected 166. American Speeches: Part
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