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The
Library of America
History and Mission Statement
(from LOA web site,
3/99):
"The Library of America was founded in 1979 to undertake a historic
endeavor: to help preserve the nation’s cultural heritage by publishing
America’s best and most significant writing in durable and authoritative
editions.
"The idea for The Library of America was first discussed some thirty
years ago by scholars and literary critics who were concerned that
many works by America’s finest writers were either out of print
or nearly impossible to find. Without a deliberate publishing effort
to preserve American writing, many important works would virtually
disappear and be lost to future generations. Deprived of an important
part of their cultural inheritance, Americans would lose a collective
sense of the country’s literary accomplishments. The Pleiade
series published in France provided a model, and discussion
of a similar American series continued until the late 1970s, when
seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the
Ford Foundation was secured to create The Library of America. The
first volumes were published in 1982. Like the historic preservation
movement, which originated in the 1920s with concerns about architectural
heritage, The Library of America seeks to restore and pass on to
future generations our nation’s literary heritage. This entails
something never attempted before: not only publishing these volumes
but keeping them permanently in print and widely available to readers.
"In the years since The Library of America’s inception it has come
to be recognized by both scholars and the general public as the
national edition of our country’s literature."
click on any title for more information or to order.
Debate
on the Constitution, Part 1: September 1789 to February 1788
American
Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume One: Freneau to Whitman
Debate
on the Constitution, Part 2: January to August 1788
American
Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume Two: Melville to Stickney,
Reporting
World War II, Part 2: American Journalism 1944-1946
Reporting
World War II, Part 1: American Journalism 1938-1944
Crime
Novels: American Noir, American Noir of the 1930s and 40s
Crime
Novels: American Noir, American Noir of the 1950s
Reporting
Vietnam: American Journalism 1959 - 1975, Part One: American Journalism
Reporting
Vietnam: American Journalism 1959 - 1975, Part Two: American Journalism
American
Sermons : The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King Jr
Adams, Henry. Novels,
Mont Saint Michel, The Education
Adams, Henry. History
of the United States: During the Administrations of Jefferson
Adams, Henry. History
of the United States: During the Administrations of Madison
Baldwin, James. Early
Novels & Stories
Baldwin, James. Collected
Essays
Bartram, William. Travels
and Other Writings
Brown, Charles Brockden. Three
Gothic Novels
Cather, Willa. Early
Novels and Stories
Cather, Willa. Later
Novels
Cather, Willa. Stories,
Poems, and Other Writings
Chandler, Raymond. Stories
& Early Novels
Chandler, Raymond. Later
Novels & Other Writings
Cooper, James Fenimore. The
Leatherstocking Tales (Vol. 1)
Cooper, James Fenimore. The
Leatherstocking Tales (Vol. 2)
Cooper, James Fenimore. Sea
Tales: The Pilot, The Red Rover
Crane, Stephen. Prose
and Poetry
Douglass, Frederick, Autobiographies
Dos Passos, John. U.S.A.
Dreiser, Theodore. Sister
Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men
Du Bois, W.E.B.. Writings
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Collected
Poems and Translations
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Essays
and Lectures
Faulkner, William, Novels
1942-1954
Faulkner, William. Novels
1930 - 1935
Faulkner, William. Novels
1936 - 1940
Franklin, Benjamin. Writings
Frost, Robert. Collected
Poems, Prose and Plays
Grant, Ulysses S.. Memoirs
and Selected Letters
Hamett, Dashielle. Complete
Novels
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Tales
and Sketches
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Collected
Novels
Howells, William Dean. Novels
1875-1886
Howells, William Dean. Novels
1886-1888
Hurston, Zora Neale, Novels
& Stories
Hurston, Zora Neale. Folklore,
Memoirs, & Other Writings
Irving, Washington. History,
Tales and Sketches
Irving, Washington. Bracebridge
Hall,Tales of a Traveller, The Alhambra
James, Henry. Novels
1871-1880
James, Henry. Literary
Criticism (Vol. 1)
James, Henry. Literary
Criticism (Vol. 2)
James, Henry. Novels
1881-1886
James, Henry. Novels
1886-1890
James, Henry. Collected
Travel Writings (Vol. 1)
James, Henry. Collected
Travel Writings (Vol. 2)
James, Henry. Complete
Stories 1892-1898
James, Henry. Complete
Stories 1898-1910
James, Henry. Complete
Stories 1874-1884
James, Henry. Complete
Stories 1884-1891
James, William. Writings
1902-1910
James, William. Writings
1878-1899
Jefferson, Thomas. Writings
Jewett, Sarah Orne, Novels
and Stories
Lewis, Sinclair. Main
Street & Babbitt
Lincoln, Abraham. Speeches
and Writings 1832-1858
Lincoln, Abraham. Speeches
and Writings 1859-1865
London, Jack. Novels
and Stories
London, Jack. Novels
and Social Writings
Melville, Herman. Typee,
Omoo, Mardi
Melville, Herman. Redburn,
White-Jacket, Moby-Dick
Melville, Herman. Pierre,
Israel Potter, The Confidence-Man, Tales
Muir, John. Nature
Writings
Nabokov, Vladimir. Novels
and Memiors 1941 - 1951
Nabokov, Vladimir. Novels
1955 - 1962
Nabokov, Vladimir. Novels
1969 - 1974
Norris, Frank. Novels
and Essays
O'Connor, Flannery. Collected
Works
O'Neill, Eugene. Vol.
1: Complete Plays 1913-1920
O'Neill, Eugene. Vol.
2: Complete Plays 1920-1931
O'Neill, Eugene. Vol.
3: Complete Plays 1932-1943
Parkman, Francis. France
and England in North America Vol. 1
Parkman, Francis. France
and England in North America Vol. 2
Parkman, Francis. The
Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac
Poe, Edgar Allan. Essays
and Reviews
Poe, Edgar Allan. Poetry
and Tales
Sherman, William T.. Memoirs
of General W. T. Sherman
Stein, Gertrude. Writings
1903-1932
Stein, Gertrude. Writings
1932-1946
Steinbeck, John, Novels
and Stories 1932-1937
Steinbeck, John. The
Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936-1941
Stevens, Wallace. Collected
Poetry and Prose
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Three
Novels
Thoreau, Henry David. A
Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod
Thurber, James. Writings
and Drawings
Twain, Mark, Historical
Romances
Twain, Mark. Mississippi
Writings
Twain, Mark. The
Innocents Abroad & Roughing It
Twain, Mark. Collected
Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays (1)
Twain, Mark. Collected
Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays (2)
Washington, George. Writings
Welty, Eudora. Complete
Novels
Welty, Eudora. Stories,
Essays, and Memoir
West, Nathanael. Novels
and Other Writings
Wharton, Edith. Novels
Wharton, Edith. Novellas
and Other Writings
Whitman, Walt. Poetry
and Prose
Wright, Richard. Early
Works
Wright, Richard. Later
Works
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