Novels 1942–1952: The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden
10 best books like Novels 1942–1952: The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden (John Steinbeck): 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, Complete Stories 1892–1898, Novels & Memoirs 1941–1951: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight / Bend Sinister / Speak, Memory, Collected Poems and Translations, Historical Romances: The Prince and the Pauper / A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court / Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Pierre / Israel Potter / The Piazza Tales / The Confidence-Man / Uncollected Prose / Billy Budd
| Author | Jack London |
| ISBN | 0940450054 |
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...
| Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 1883011841 |
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...
| Author | Willa Cather |
| ISBN | 0940450399 |
“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...
| Author | Sinclair Lewis |
| ISBN | 0940450615 |
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...
| Author | Paul Bowles |
| ISBN | 1931082197 |
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...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 1883011094 |
This Library of America volume is one of five that make available for the first time in new, complete, and authoritative editions the astonishing abundance of invention and unwavering intensity of the aesthetic vision of Henry James as displayed in more than one hundred world-famous stories ranging...
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 1883011183 |
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...
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| ISBN | 0940450283 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson's brillance as a prose writer has too long overshadowed his remarkable gifts as a poet. Collected Poems and Translations
gathers both published and unpublished work - poems left in manuscript at his death and hitherto available only in drastically edited or specialized scholarly...
| Author | Mark Twain |
| ISBN | 0940450828 |
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...
| Author | Herman Melville |
| ISBN | 0940450240 |
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...
| Author | Saul Bellow |
| ISBN | 1931082383 |
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...
In the inaugural volume of its collected edition of Miller's plays, The Library of America gathers the works from the 1940s and 1950s that electrified theatergoers and established Miller as one of the indispensable voices of the postwar era. Among the plays included are All My Sons, the story of an industrialist...
The third and final volume of the first complete collection of Eugene O’Neill’s dramatic writings (available exclusively from The Library of America) contains eight plays written between 1932 and 1943, when illness forced him to stop writing. They represent the crowning achievements of his...
| Author | James Agee |
| ISBN | 1931082812 |
A passionate literary innovator, eloquent in language and uncompromising in his social observation and his pursuit of emotional truth, James Agee (1909–1955) excelled as novelist, critic, journalist, and screenwriter. In his brief, often turbulent life, he left enduring evidence of his...
| Author | Philip Roth |
| ISBN | 1931082804 |
In this, the second volume of The Library of America’s definitive edition of the collected works of Philip Roth, published by special arrangement with the author, the range and inventiveness of Roth’s fiction is dazzlingly displayed in four extraordinarily diverse works.
When She...
The Devil’s Dictionary / Tales, & Memoirs
| Author | Ambrose Bierce |
| ISBN | 1598531026 |
A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the civil War—among them Shiloh, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and Kennesaw Mountain—Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death-haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. A prolific journalist who made...
| Author | William Faulkner |
| ISBN | 1931082898 |
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
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...
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| ISBN | 0940450089 |
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...
