Tales and Sketches
10 best books like Tales and Sketches (Nathaniel Hawthorne): France and England in North America, Vol. 1, Novels and Stories: The Call of the Wild / White Fang / The Sea-Wolf / Klondike and Other Stories, Poetry and Tales, 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, Louisa May Alcott: An Intimate Anthology, Legends of Charlemagne, Main Street / Babbitt, Complete Stories 1892–1898, Novels 1936–1940: Absalom, Absalom! / The Unvanquished / If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem / The Hamlet
| Author | Francis Parkman |
| ISBN | 0940450100 |
This Library of America volume, along with its companion, incorporates, for the first time in compact form, all seven titles of Francis Parkman’s monumental account of France and England’s imperial struggle for dominance on the North American continent. Parkman conceived the project in 1841,...
| 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 | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 0940450186 |
Read throughout the world, admired by Dostoyevsky and translated by Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe has become a legendary figure, representing the artist as obsessed outcast and romantic failure. His nightmarish visions, shaped by cool artistic calculation, reveal some of the dark possibilities...
| 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 | Louisa May Alcott |
| ISBN | 0385487223 |
1) The Rival Painters: A Tale of Rome
2) The Rival Prima Donnas
3) The Frost-King: or, The Power of Love
4) The Lady and the Woman
5) Love and Self-Love
6) Hope's Debut
7) Thrice Tempted
8) Perilous Play
9) M.L.
10) A Night
11) The Blue and the Gray, A Hospital Sketch
Selections...
| Author | Thomas Bulfinch |
| ISBN | 0028614771 |
Here are the world s most-loved stories, in a dynamic visual tour de force for today s readers. Each timeless myth is superbly presented in story form and enhanced with original art work by world-renowned artist Giovanni Caselli. Though Bulfinch s has been heralded for more than a century, it has never...
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Mark Twain |
| ISBN | 0940450259 |
This Library of America volume contains the novels that, when published, transformed an obscure Western journalist into a national celebrity. The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It (sometimes called The Innocents at Home) were immensely successful when first published and they remain today the...
| 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 | 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...
| Author | Edith Wharton |
| ISBN | 0940450313 |
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...
