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  • Book : String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis: A L...
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    Book : String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis: A L...

    -Titulo Original : String Theory: David Foster Wallace On Tennis: A Library Of America Special Publication-Fabricante : Library Of Americ...
  • Book : James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Nati...
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    Book : James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Nati...

    -Titulo Original : James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes Of A Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name In The Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays (Library Of America)-Fabricante : Library Of Americ...
  • Book : Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories, (5396)
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    Book : Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories, (5396)

    -Titulo Original : Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels And Stories Vol. 2 (LOA #297): The Word For World Is Forest / Five Ways To Forgiveness / The Telling / Stories (Library Of America Ursula K. Le Guin Edition)-Fabricante : Library Of America-Descripcion Original: The star-spanning story of humanity’s colonization of other planets, Ursula K. Le Guin’s visionary Hainish novels and stories redrew the map of modern science fiction, making it a rich field for literary explorations of “the nature of human nature,” as Margaret Atwood has described Le Guin’s subject. Now, for the first time, the complete Hainish novels and stories are collected in a definitive two-volume Library of America edition, with new introductions by the author. This second volume in a definitive two-volume edition gathers Le Guin’s final two Hainish novels, The Word for World Is Forest, in which Earth enslaves another planet to strip its natural resources, and The Telling, the harrowing story of a society which has suppressed its own cultural heritage. Rounding out the volume are seven short stories and the story suite Five Ways to Forgiveness, published here in full for the first time. The endpapers feature a full-color chart of the known worlds of Hainish descent.  is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries...
  • Book : Alexander Hamilton: Writings (Library of America) ...
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    Book : Alexander Hamilton: Writings (Library of America) ...

    -Titulo Original : Alexander Hamilton: Writings (LOA #129) (Library Of America Founders Collection)-Fabricante : Library Of America-Descripcion Original: Product DescriptionIn Nancy Meyers' The Holiday, a romantic comedy from the director of Something's Gotta Give and What Women Want, two women trade homes only to find that a change of address can change their lives. Iris (Winslet) is in love with a man who is about to marry another woman. Across the globe, Amanda (Diaz), realizes the man she lives with has been unfaithful. Two women who have never met and live 6000 miles apart, find themselves in the exact same place. They meet online at a home exchange website and impulsively switch homes for the holiday. Iris moves into Amanda's L.A. house in sunny California as Amanda arrives in the snow covered English countryside. Shortly after arriving at their destinations, both women find the last thing either wants or expects: a new romance. Amanda is charmed by Iris' handsome brother Graham (Law) and Iris, with inspiration provided by legendary screenwriter Arthur (Wallach), mends her heart when she meets film composer Miles (Black).ELBAZARDIGITAL****As a pleasant dose of holiday cheer, The Holiday is a lovable love story with all the Christmas trimmings. In the capable hands of writer-director Nancy Meyers (making her first romantic comedy since Something's Gotta Give), it all begins when two successful yet unhappy women connect through a home-swapping website, and decide to trade houses for the Christmas holiday in a mutual effort to forget their man troubles. Iris (Kate Winslet) is a London-based journalist who lives in a picture-postcard cottage in Surrey, and Amanda (Cameron Diaz) owns a movie-trailer production company (leading her to cutely imagine most of her life as a "coming attraction") and lives in a posh mansion in Beverly Hills. Iris is heartbroken from unrequited love with a cad of a colleague (Rufus Sewell), and Amanda has just broken up with her cheating boyfriend (Edward Burns), so their home-swapping offers mutual downtime to reassess their love lives. This being a Nancy Meyers movie (where everything is fabulously decorated and romantic wish-fulfillment is virtually guaranteed), Amanda hooks up with Iris's charming brother Graham (Jude Law), and Iris is unexpectedly smitten with Miles (Jack Black), a super-nice film composer on the downside of a failing relationship. --Jeff Shanno...
  • Book : Paul Bowles: Collected Stories and Later Writings ...
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    Book : Paul Bowles: Collected Stories and Later Writings ...

    -Titulo Original : Paul Bowles: Collected Stories & Later Writings (LOA #135): Delicate Prey / Hundred Camels In Courtyard / Time Of Friendship / Things Gone & Things ... Blu (Library Of America Paul Bowles Edition)-Fabricante : Library Of Americ...
  • Book: Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories Vol. 1
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    Book: Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories Vol. 1

    -Titulo Original : Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels And Stories Vol. 1 (LOA #296): Rocannons World / Planet Of Exile / City Of Illusions / The Left Hand Of Darkness / ... Of America Ursula K. Le Guin Edition)-Fabricante : Library Of America-Descripcion Original: The star-spanning story of humanity’s colonization of other planets, Ursula K. Le Guin’s visionary Hainish novels and stories redrew the map of modern science fiction, making it a rich field for literary explorations of “the nature of human nature,” as Margaret Atwood has described Le Guin’s subject. Now, for the first time, the complete Hainish novels and stories are collected in a definitive two-volume Library of America edition, with new introductions by the author. This first volume in a definitive two-volume edition gathers the first five Hainish novels: Rocannon’s World, in which an ethnologist sent to a bronze-age planet must help defeat an intergalactic enemy; Planet of Exile, the story of human colonists stranded on a planet that is slowly killing them; City of Illusions, which finds a future Earth ruled by the mysterious Shing; and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning masterpieces The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed—as well as four short stories...
  • Book : Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An...
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    Book : Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An...

    -Titulo Original : Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave A Library Of America Paperback Classic-Fabricante : Library Of America-Descripcion Original: One of the greatest works of American autobiography, in a definitive Library of America text: Published seven years after his escape from slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) is a powerful account of the cruelty and oppression of the Maryland plantation culture into which Frederick Douglass was born. It brought him to the forefront of the antislavery movement and drew thousands, black and white, to the cause. Written in part as a response to skeptics who refused to believe that so articulate an orator could ever have been a slave, the Narrative reveals the eloquence and fierce intelligence that made Douglass a brilliantly effective spokesman for abolition and equal rights, as he shapes an inspiring vision of self-realization in the face of unimaginable odds. About the Author Born a slave, Frederick Douglass (c. 1818-1895) educated himself, escaped, and made himself one of the greatest leaders in American history. John Stauffer is a professor of English and American Literature and African American Studies and Chair of the History of American Civilization program at Harvard University. His eight books include The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (2002) and Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln (2008)...
  • Book : Frederick Douglass Autobiographies Narrative Of The..
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    Book : Frederick Douglass Autobiographies Narrative Of The..

    -Titulo Original : Frederick Douglass Autobiographies Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave / My Bondage And My Freedom / Life And Times Of Frederick Douglass (library Of America)-Fabricante : Library Of America-Descripcion Original: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the only authoritative edition of all three autobiographies by the escaped slave who became a great American leader.Here in this Library of America volume are collected Frederick Douglasss three autobiographical narratives, now recognized as classics of both American history and American literature. Writing with the eloquence and fierce intelligence that made him a brilliantly effective spokesman for the abolition of slavery and equal rights, Douglass shapes an inspiring vision of self-realization in the face of monumental odds.Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), published seven years after his escape, was written in part as a response to skeptics who refused to believe that so articulate an orator could ever have been a slave. A powerfully compressed account of the cruelty and oppression of the Maryland plantation culture into which Douglass was born, it brought him to the forefront of the anti-slavery movement and drew thousands, black and white, to the cause.In My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), Douglass expands the account of his slave years. With astonishing psychological penetration, he probes the painful ambiguities and subtly corrosive effects of black-white relations under slavery, and recounts his determined resistance to segregation in the North. The book also incorporates extracts from Douglass’s speeches, including the searing “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”Life and Times, first published in 1881, records Douglass’s efforts to keep alive the struggle for racial equality udirng Reconstruction. John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, William Lloyd Garrison, and Harriet Beecher Stowe all feature prominently in this chronicle of a crucial epoch in American history. The revised edition of 1893, presented here, includes an account of his controversial diplomatic mission to Haiti.This volume contains a detailed chronology of Douglass’s life, notes providing further background on the events and people mentioned, and an account of the textual history of each of the autobiographies.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. From Publishers Weekly This omnibus volume collects three noted autobiographical works by Douglass (1818-1895), the ex-slave who became one of the nations most powerful advocates, on the stump and in print, for abolition and racial justice. His first work, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself , published in 1845, seven years after his escape, set out the cruelties and hypocrisies of slavery, thus putting it in the power of any who doubted, to ascertain the truth or falsehood of my story of being a fugitive slave. Ten years later, he increased the heat with My Bondage and My Freedom which, though it relies heavily on the earlier edition, also included samples of his speeches. Not only is slavery on trial, but unfortunately, the enslaved people are also on trial, wrote Douglass regarding this book. After the Civil War, he continued to fight racial injustice through writings about slavery and his struggles during Reconstruction in Life and Times , which, though first published in 1881, is presented here in the updated 1893 edition. The volume includes a detailed and lengthy chronology of Douglasss life and work, as well as notes and an essay on the varieties of past Douglass texts contributed by Gates, who chairs the Afro-American studies department at Harvard. However, the book would have been more valuable with an introduct...
  • Book : Memoirs Of General W.t. Sherman (library Of America).
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    Book : Memoirs Of General W.t. Sherman (library Of America).

    -Titulo Original : Memoirs Of General W.t. Sherman (library Of America)-Fabricante : Library Of America-Descripcion Original: Hailed as prophet of modern war and condemned as a harbinger of modern barbarism, William Tecumseh Sherman is the most controversial general of the American Civil War. “War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it,” he wrote in fury to the Confederate mayor of Atlanta, and his memoir is filled with dozens of such wartime exchanges. With the propulsive energy and intelligence that marked his campaigns, Sherman describes striking incidents and anecdotes and collects dozens of his incisive and often outspoken wartime orders and reports. This complex self-portrait of an innovative and relentless American warrior provides firsthand accounts of the war’s crucial events-Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, the Atlanta campaign, the marches through Georgia and the Carolinas.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. From the Publisher The Library of America is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing Americas best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the most important book-publishing project in the nations history (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring Americas literary heritage in the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made (New Republic). About the Author William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) was a general in the Union Army during the Civil War, leading a devastating campaign of total war against the Confederate States. When Ulysses S. Grant was elelcted president in 1869, Sherman succeeded him as Commanding General of the U.S. Army, serving from 1869 until 1883. Charles Royster, editor of this volume, is Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University and author of The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans...
  • Book : John Muir Nature Writings The Story Of My Boyhood And
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    Book : John Muir Nature Writings The Story Of My Boyhood And

    -Titulo Original : John Muir Nature Writings The Story Of My Boyhood And Youth; My First Summer In The Sierra; The Mountains Of California; Stickeen; Essays (library Of America)-Fabricante : Library Of America-Descripcion Original: Known as the Father of the National Parks, John Muir wrote about the American West with unmatched passion and eloquence-as seen in this stunning, one-volume collectionIn a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir became Americas most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness. A crucial figure in the creation of our national parks system and a far-seeing prophet of environmental awareness who founded the Sierra Club in 1892, he was also a master of natural description who evoked with unique power and intimacy the untrammeled landscapes of the American West. Nature Writings collects Muirs most significant and best-loved works in a single volume, including: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913), My First Summer in the Sierra (1911), The Mountains of California (1894) and Stickeen (1909). Rounding out the volume is a rich selection of essays-including Yosemite Glaciers, Gods First Temples, Snow-Storm on Mount Shasta, The American Forests, and Save the Redwoods-that highlight various aspects of his career: his exploration of the Grand Canyon and of what became Yosemite and Yellowstone national parks, his successful crusades to preserve the wilderness, his early walking tour to Florida, and the Alaska journey of 1879.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. From Library Journal This volume is virtually an entire library of Muir. It combines The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Stickteen, and a number of his essays along with illustrations, a chronology of his life, and scholarly notes. At $35, this is a remarkable bargain for public and academic libraries alike.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review The richness of his writing roots deeper into the terrain than any other wilderness writer known to me. -- David Craig, Los Angeles Times Book Review From the Publisher The Library of America is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing Americas best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the most important book-publishing project in the nations history (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring Americas literary heritage in the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made (New Republic). From the Back Cover In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir made himself Americas most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness. A crucial figure in the creation of our national parks system and a visionary prophet of environmental awareness, he was also a master of natural description who evoked with unique power and intimacy the untrammeled landscapes of the American West. Nature Writings collects his most significant and best-loved works in a single volume. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913) is Muirs account of growing up by the sea in Scotland, of coming to America with his family at age eleven, and of his early fascination with the natural world. My First Summer in the Sierra (1911) is his famous account of the spiritual awakening he experienced when, 1869, he first encountered the mountains and valleys of central California. The Mountains of California (1894) draws on half a lifetime of exploration of the high Sierra country to celebrate and evoke the regions lakes, forests, flowers, and animals in a masterpiece of observation and p...
  • Book : Lynd Ward Six Novels In Woodcuts - Ward, Lynd
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    Book : Lynd Ward Six Novels In Woodcuts - Ward, Lynd

    -Titulo Original : Lynd Ward Six Novels In Woodcuts-Fabricante : Library Of America-Descripcion Original: Ward, Lynd From Booklist This two-volume boxed set collects the six woodcut novels, each composed of a single wordless image per page, that Ward created in the 1920s-30s, from the first, oddly apostrophied Gods’ Man to the triumphantly bleak, dissertation-worthy Depression tale Vertigo. In his entertaining and perceptive introduction, Spiegelman attests that Ward “is one of only a handful of artists anywhere who ever made a ‘graphic novel’ until the day before yesterday,” and it is indeed likely that acolytes of comics and visual narrative will be the most rewarded by this collection. Ward’s work is dense with the stark symbolism of an expressionist and predominantly concerned with the nature of art, on one hand, and the prevailing social and labor issues of the day, on the other; the miscues he makes in clapping these two hands together are often as revealing as his successes. Elegant, harsh, ambitious, flawed, and deeply fascinating-if not for the themes Ward explored, then certainly for the painstaking channels he carved into a new medium. --Ian Chipman About the Author Art Spiegelman is a cartoonist who first came to attention in the early 1980s as editor of the magazine Raw. His books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust story Maus, Maus II, and In the Shadow of No Towers. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children...
  • Book : Norman Mailer The Naked And The Dead & Selected...
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    Book : Norman Mailer The Naked And The Dead & Selected...

    -Titulo Original : Norman Mailer The Naked And The Dead & Selected Letters 1945-1946 (loa #364)-Fabricante : Library Of America-Descripcion Original: A landmark in the modern literature of war by a still-controversial literary icon Includes a selection of letters-nine never before published-that reveal the real life roots of one of the greatest American debut novels of the last centuryNearly universally praised upon publication as an achievement inviting comparison with Tolstoy and Hemingway, Norman Mailers The Naked and the Dead is not just a monumental war novel but also a devastating antiwar novel, exposing the primal nature of power through the interplay of a platoon of soldiers on an impossible and ultimately pointless mission on an obscure island in the Pacific during World War II. Written just after the war ended, in the early days of the emerging Cold War, the novel daringly engages with the authoritarian impulses in the American character. To celebrate and commemorate the centennial of Mailer’s birth and the 75th anniversary of the publication of his unforgettable debut novel, this expanded collector’s edition includes a selection of 23 letters (all but four from Mailer to his first wife, Beatrice) chosen by Mailer biographer J. Michael Lennon that reveals the keen insight and powerful ambition of a brilliant young writer grappling with the challenge of converting the weight of experience into art. About the Author Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was the author of more than three dozen works across a range of genres, including The Armies of the Night (1968), which won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction and the National Book Award, and The Executioners Song (1979), which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. J. Michael Lennon, emeritus professor of English at Wilkes University, is Norman Mailer’s archivist, editor, and authorized biographer, and founding president of the Norman Mailer Society. His books include Norman Mailer: A Double Life (2013) and Selected Letters of Norman Mailer (2014). He lives in Westport, Massachusetts...
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