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21) Redburn, his first voyage ; White-jacket, or, The world in a man-of-war ; Moby-Dick, or, The whale
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1983]
Physical Desc
1,437 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Redburn is the story that relates a young man's initiation into the sailors life; White-Jacket is the story that is a semi-autobiographical account of experiences in the U.S. Navy; Moby-Dick, or the whale is the most famous of Melville's works, and tells the story of Ahab, a ship captain that has become obsessed with the hunt for the whale he has named Moby-Dick.
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Series
Library of America volume 24
Pub. Date
©1984.
Physical Desc
1,478 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gift for everyone.
25) Poetry and tales
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1984]
Physical Desc
1,408 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
26) Writings
Author
Series
Library of America volume 17
Pub. Date
[1984]
Physical Desc
1,600 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1985]
Physical Desc
1,347 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In The Pioneers, Natty Bumppo, forced by a local landowner to obey new hunting laws, rebels and finds allies in the landowner's daughter and a mysterious stranger. In The Last of the Mohicans, Hawkeye, a scout, leads a small band of Americans fleeing from the British and their Indian allies in the French and Indian War.
29) Novels
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Series
Library of America volume 30
Pub. Date
[1985]
Physical Desc
1,328 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The four novels in this volume show Wharton at the height of her powers as a social observer and critic, examining American and European lives with a vision rich in detail, satire, and tragedy.
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Series
Library of America volume 29
Pub. Date
[1985]
Physical Desc
1,249 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Washington Square: Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, it is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter and her brilliant, unemotional father.
The portrait of a lady: When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to determine...
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Series
Library of America volume 33
Pub. Date
[1986]
Physical Desc
1,232 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In his brief career -- he died at 32 -- Frank Norris introduced fresh and sometimes shocking elements into American fiction. Inspired by the naturalistic "new novel" developed in France by Zola and Flaubert, he adapted it to American settings, adding his own taste for exciting action and a fascination with the emerging sciences of economics and psychology. Vandover and the brute, set in a vividly described San Francisco, captures with harsh realism...
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Series
Library of America volume 35
Pub. Date
[1987]
Physical Desc
1,336 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first of three volumes presenting the writings of Willa Cather includes her early book of stories and first four novels. The troll garden: Cather's first short story collection, originally published in 1905, depicts characters who seek the realm of beauty and imagination, but are confronted by the vulgarity and brutality of American society. O pioneers!: In Nebraska at the end of the nineteenth century, Swedish immigrant Alexandra Bergson leads...
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Series
Library of America volume 36
Pub. Date
[1987]
Physical Desc
1,168 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Includes "My brother Paul."
37) Writings
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Series
Library of America volume 37
Pub. Date
[1987]
Physical Desc
1,605 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 40-42
Pub. Date
[1988]
Physical Desc
3 volumes ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A wire for Live, the Web, thirst, recklessness, warnings, fog, bread and butter, Bound East for Cardiff, aAbortion, the movie man, servitude, the sniper, the personal eqauation, before breakfast, now I ask you, in the zone, ile, the long voyage home, the moon of the caribbees, the robe, beyond the horizon, shell shock, the dreamy kid, where the cross is made, the straw, Chris Christophersen, gold, anna Christie, and the Emperor Jones.
39) The pioneers
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Natty Bumppo, now on the threshold of old age, finds his way of life challenged as the land he has roamed becomes private property and the laws of man supplant the laws of nature.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 44
Pub. Date
[1989]
Physical Desc
881 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contains three novels by nineteenth-century American author William Dean Howells in which he merges social commentary and comedy in his examination of the contrasts in life.
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