Novels and Stories: The Call of the Wild / White Fang / The Sea-Wolf / Klondike and Other Stories
10 best books like Novels and Stories: The Call of the Wild / White Fang / The Sea-Wolf / Klondike and Other Stories (Jack London): 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, Tales and Sketches, Main Street / Babbitt, The Sheltering Sky / Let It Come Down / The Spider's House, Complete Stories 1892–1898, Novels 1936–1940: Absalom, Absalom! / The Unvanquished / If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem / The Hamlet, Novels & Memoirs 1941–1951: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight / Bend Sinister / Speak, Memory, Collected Poems and Translations, Complete Novels and Stories
| 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 | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| ISBN | 0940450038 |
This Library of America volume offers what no reader has ever been able to find—an authoritative edition of all the tales and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne in a single comprehensive volume. Everything is included from his three books of stories, Twice-told Tales (1837, revised 1851), Mosses...
| 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 | William Faulkner |
| ISBN | 0940450550 |
The four novels in this Library of America collection show Faulkner at the height of his powers and fully demonstrate the range of his genius. They explore the tragic and comic aspects of a South haunted by its past and uncertain of its future.
In the intricate, spellbinding masterpiece Absalom,...
| 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 | Kate Chopin |
| ISBN | 1931082219 |
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...
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
| ISBN | 1598530127 |
The raucous, exuberant, often wildly funny account of a journey through America and Mexico, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road instantly defined a generation on its publication in 1957: it was, in the words of a New York Times reviewer, “the clearest and most important utterance yet made by the generation...
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 | John Steinbeck |
| ISBN | 1883011019 |
John Steinbeck, from the very start of his career, evoked the landscape and people of central California with lyrical intensity and unflinching frankness. The Library of America presents for the first time in one volume Steinbeck’s early writings, which expressed his abiding concerns for community,...
| Author | Mark Twain |
| ISBN | 0940450070 |
Here are my ratings for the individual books included in this collection:
- Life On The Mississippi: 4 stars. The best part of this collection. Entertaining, informative, and funny, too! Your best reason for picking up this book.
- The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer: 3 stars. It has its moments....
| Author | Herman Melville |
| ISBN | 0940450097 |
Between 1849 and 1851, Melville wrote three masterful stories of the sea (including the classic Moby-Dick) that captured colorful and comic glimpses of shipboard life, the excitement of the whale hunt, and seascapes that move from the brutal to the sublime; they also displayed a marvelous command...
