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Complete Stories 1892–1898

10 best books like Complete Stories 1892–1898 (Henry James): Novels and Stories: The Call of the Wild / White Fang / The Sea-Wolf / Klondike and Other Stories, Novels and Stories 1920–1922: This Side of Paradise / Flappers and Philosophers / The Beautiful and Damned / Tales of the Jazz Age, Early Novels and Stories: The Troll Garden / O Pioneers! / The Song of the Lark / My Ántonia / One of Ours, Main Street / Babbitt, The Sheltering Sky / Let It Come Down / The Spider's House, Novels & Memoirs 1941–1951: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight / Bend Sinister / Speak, Memory, Historical Romances: The Prince and the Pauper / A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court / Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Novels 1942–1952: The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden, Pierre / Israel Potter / The Piazza Tales / The Confidence-Man / Uncollected Prose / Billy Budd, Complete Novels and Stories

Novels and Stories: The Call of the Wild / White Fang / The Sea-Wolf / Klondike and Other Stories
AuthorJack London
ISBN0940450054
This Library of America volume of Jack London’s best-known work is filled with thrilling action, an intuitive feeling for animal life, and a sense of justice that often works itself out through violence. London enjoyed phenomenal popularity in his own time (which included the depressions of the...
Novels and Stories 1920–1922: This Side of Paradise / Flappers and Philosophers / The Beautiful and Damned / Tales of the Jazz Age
AuthorF. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN1883011841
At the outset of what he called “the greatest, the gaudiest spree in history,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the works that brought him instant fame, mastering the glittering aphoristic prose and keen social observation that would distinguish all his writing. Celebrating the riotous energy and...
Early Novels and Stories: The Troll Garden / O Pioneers! / The Song of the Lark / My Ántonia / One of Ours
AuthorWilla Cather
ISBN0940450399
“Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.” Willa Cather’s remark describes her own reasons for re-creating in her works the Nebraska frontier of her youth. Set on the vast northern Great Plains, where the earth has only recently come beneath the plow, the stories and novels in this...
Main Street / Babbitt
AuthorSinclair Lewis
ISBN0940450615
In Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to reveal as no writer had done before the complacency and conformity of middle-class life in America. The remarkable novels presented here in this Library of America volume combine brilliant satire...
The Sheltering Sky / Let It Come Down / The Spider's House
AuthorPaul Bowles
ISBN1931082197
Paul Bowles had already established himself as an important American composer when, at the age of 38, he published The Sheltering Sky and became widely recognized as one of the most powerful writers of the postwar period. By the time of his death in 1999 he had become a unique and legendary figure in modern...
Novels & Memoirs 1941–1951: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight / Bend Sinister / Speak, Memory
AuthorVladimir Nabokov
ISBN1883011183
After a brilliant literary career writing in Russian, Vladimir Nabokov immigrated to the United States in 1940 and went on to an even more brilliant one in English. Between 1939 and 1974 he wrote the autobiography and eight novels now collected by the Library of America in an authoritative three-volume...
Historical Romances: The Prince and the Pauper / A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court / Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
AuthorMark Twain
ISBN0940450828
In the three novels collected in this Library of America volume, Mark Twain turned his comic genius to a period that fascinated and repelled him in equal measure: medieval and Renaissance Europe. This lost world of stately pomp and unspeakable cruelty, artistic splendor and abysmal ignorance—the...
Novels 1942–1952: The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden
AuthorJohn Steinbeck
ISBN1931082073
The third volume in The Library of America’s authoritative edition of John Steinbeck’s writings shows him continuing to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling. These four novels display the versatility and emotional directness that have made Steinbeck one of America’s...
Pierre / Israel Potter / The Piazza Tales / The Confidence-Man / Uncollected Prose / Billy Budd
AuthorHerman Melville
ISBN0940450240
Forgoing the narratives of the sea that prevailed in his earlier works, Melville's later fiction contains some of the finest and many of his keenest and bleakest observations of life, not on the high seas, but at home in America. With the publication of this Library of America volume, the third of three...
Complete Novels and Stories
AuthorKate Chopin
ISBN1931082219
From ruined Louisiana plantations to bustling, cosmopolitan New Orleans, Kate Chopin wrote with unflinching honesty about propriety and its strictures, the illusions of love and the realities of marriage, and the persistence of a past scarred by slavery and war. Her stories of fiercely independent...
Novels 1944–1953: Dangling Man / The Victim / The Adventures of Augie March
AuthorSaul Bellow
ISBN1931082383
Winner of the Nobel Prize and a towering figure of 20th-century literature, Saul Bellow secured his place as one of the most distinctive and significant writers of the postwar era with the publication of his third novel, The Adventures of Augie March. This Library of America volume collects all three...
The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence
AuthorEdith Wharton
ISBN0940450313
Edith Wharton’s full and glamorous life bridged the literary worlds of two continents and two centuries. Born in 1862 into an exclusive New York society against whose rigid codes of behavior she often rebelled, she lived to regret the passing of that stable if old-fashioned community and to appreciate...
Novels, 1926-1929
AuthorWilliam Faulkner
ISBN1931082898
The Library of America edition of the novels of William Faulkner culminates with this volume presenting his first four, each newly edited, and, in many cases, restored with passages that were altered or (in the case of Mosquitoes) expurgated by the original publishers. This is Faulkner as he was meant...
Complete Novels: The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, The Optimist's Daughter
AuthorEudora Welty
Eudora Welty's Novels In The Library Of America

I became interested in reading further in Eudora Welty (1909 -- 2001) after reading a recently published volume of her correspondence with her friend and editor, William Maxwell." What There Is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora...
Collected Novels: Fanshawe / The Scarlet Letter / The House of the Seven Gables / The Blithedale Romance / The Marble Fawn
AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne
ISBN0940450089
Here, in one Library of America volume, are all five of Hawthorne’s world-famous novels. Written in a richly suggestive style that seems remarkably contemporary, they are permeated by his own history as well as America’s.

In The House of the Seven Gables, for example, Hawthorne alludes...
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