10 days ago by Eugene Parker

Average Reviews: ( More customer reviews)This is the kind of book reserved for the word "volume" and by that I mean it carries all the weight of Twain's most accessible works. All of the Library of America books carry this weight but this was one of the first and deservedly so. I'm reviewing this bo ...

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22 days ago by Phil Boudreaux

Average Reviews: ( More customer reviews)This is a tremendous source work, providing a sequential study of O'Neill's development as a dramatist. While not all of the plays are particularly successful, they reveal themes and settings that would provide the foundation for the later O'Neill masterworks ...

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25 days ago by Phil Boudreaux

Average Reviews: ( More customer reviews)I can't believe no one else has reviewed this book yet, but perhaps it reveals something about the way Katherine Anne Porter has been devalued in modern US literary society, all the odder since I can remember a time when she was the toast of the literary worl ...

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44 days ago by whisperinggums

I love food and I enjoy reading about food. I particularly enjoy reading about food – and food traditions – from other cultures. And so, when Ana Menéndez’s story popped up on the Library of America last month I made a note to read it. The last piece of food writing that I read from LOA, John Duncan ...

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54 days ago by Phil Boudreaux

Average Reviews: ( More customer reviews)Louisa May Alcott is best known for her classic novel "Little Women," an enchanting look at growing up. But the story of Jo March didn't stop when she went to Plumfields. This collection includes not just "Little Women," but also its two sequels. "Little Wome ...

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67 days ago by Larry

I am often attracted to collecting certain well-designed books. In addition to owning the majority of the Easton Press 100 Greatest Books, I have slowly been building my collection of Library of America titles, as the design, thin paper, the scholarship, in addition to the classic titles themselves, ...

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73 days ago by Phil Boudreaux

Average Reviews: ( More customer reviews)Published in 1958 this book is divided into three parts: The Follies, 1923-1928; The Earthquake, October 1930-October 1931; and, Dawn of the New Deal, 1932-1934. Each section consists of a selection of Wilson's non-literary articles written during the twentie ...

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77 days ago by Travel Video

Based on a series of letters Mark Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent, The Innocents Abroad (1869) is a burlesque of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. Twain's fresh and humorous perspective on hallowed Europe ...

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87 days ago by whisperinggums

It’s been a while since I’ve read any Henry James though, like many readers, I did a few years ago read Colm Toibin‘s The master and David Lodge‘s Author Author. I was pleased, therefore, to see James pop up as Library of America‘s author last week. The story is “Paste” and it is a bit of a riff on ...

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94 days ago by Phil Boudreaux

Average Reviews: ( More customer reviews)I began my acquaintance with Eudora Welty's works in college with One Writer's Beginnings and fell in love with the lyrics of her writing. I moved on to her short stories where I believe Ms. Welty surely shines brightest, but her novels are almost as wonderfu ...

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