Library of America

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Updike, John Stafford, Jean Du Bois, W. E. B Snyder, Gary Douglass, Frederick Steptoe, Tyina L., 1975 Ware, Susan, 1950 Barthelme, Donald Spencer, Elizabeth Didion, Joan Bradbury, Ray Perelman, S. J DeLillo, Don Fitzgerald, F. Scott Yaszek, Lisa, 1969 Hijuelos, Oscar Anaya, Rudolfo A Basker, James G Mailer, Norman Le Guin, Ursula K

1) John Updike: novels, 1959-1965

Author

Updike, John

Series

Library of America volume 311

2) John Updike: novels 1968-1975

Author

Updike, John

Series

Library of America volume 326

3) African American poetry: 250 years of struggle & song

Series

Library of America volume 333

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Books in Time Book Club: Civil War, the Black Experience

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Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate...

4) John Updike novels 1978-1984 , Library of America volume 339

Author

Updike, John

5) Jean Stafford: complete stories & other writings , Library of America volume 342

Author

Stafford, Jean

6) Black reconstruction: an essay toward a history of the part which Black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880, & other writings

Author

Du Bois, W. E. B

Series

Library of America volume 350

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A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War's aftermath and the legacy of racism in America. Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois's now classic Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction--and of American democracy itself. One of the towering African American thinkers and activists of the twentieth century, Du Bois brought all his intellectual powers to bear on...

7) Gary Snyder: collected poems , Library of America volume 357

Author

Snyder, Gary

8) Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

Author

Douglass, Frederick

Series

Library of America volume 358
Library of Black America

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One of the greatest African American leaders and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote with unsurpassed eloquence on almost all the major issues confronting the American people during his life from the abolition of slavery to women's rights, from the Civil War to lynching, from American patriotism to Black Nationalism. Between 1950 and 1975, Philip S. Foner collected the most important of Douglass's hundreds...

9) Jim Crow : voices from a century of struggle. Part one, 1876-1919: Reconstruction to the Red Summer , Library of America volume 376

Author

Steptoe, Tyina L., 1975-

10) American women's suffrage: voices from the long struggle for the vote 1776-1965

Author

Ware, Susan, 1950-

11) Donald Barthelme: collected stories

Author

Barthelme, Donald

12) Elizabeth Spencer novels & stories: The voice at the back door / The light in the Piazza / Knights and dragons / Selected stories

Author

Spencer, Elizabeth

13) Joan Didion: the 1980s & 90s

Author

Didion, Joan

14) Plymouth colony: narratives of English settlement and native resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's war

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Library of America

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"For the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's arrival, a landmark collection of firsthand accounts charting the history of the English newcomers and their fateful encounters with the region's native peoples. For centuries the story of the Pilgrims and the Mayflower has been told and retold -- the landing at Plymouth Rock and the first Thanksgiving, and the decades that followed, as the colonists struggled to build an enduring and righteous community...

15) Ray Bradbury novels & story cycles: The Martian chronicles / Fahrenheit 451 / Dandelion wine / Something wicked this way comes

Author

Bradbury, Ray

16) S. J. Perelman: Writings

Author

Perelman, S. J.

17) Don Delillo: three novels of the 1980s

Author

DeLillo, Don

18) F. Scott Fitzgerald: the Princeton years : selected writings, 1914-1920 / edited and with an introduction by Chip Deffaa

Author

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Library of America

19) The future Is female!: the 1970s: more classic science fiction stories by women

Author

Yaszek, Lisa, 1969-

20) Oscar Hijuelos: the Mambo Kings and other novels

Author

Hijuelos, Oscar

21) Ray Bradbury: the last interview and other conversations

Author

Bradbury, Ray

Series

Library of America
The last interview

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"Ray Bradbury was long the most influential sci-fi writer in the world, the poetic and visionary author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated Man But he also lived a fascinating life outside the parameters of sci-fi, and was a masterful raconteur of his own story, as he reveals in his wide-ranging and in-depth final interview with his acclaimed biographer, Sam Weller. After moving to Los Angeles, he became...

22) Rudolfo Anaya: bless me, Ultima, Tortuga, Alburquerque

Author

Anaya, Rudolfo A

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Library of America

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"Mythmaker, master storyteller, and a writer powerfully attuned to the land and history of his native New Mexico, Rudolfo Anaya is one of the undisputed fathers of Chicano literature. Writing in an era when Latino voices were marginalized and just beginning to be read and acknowledged, Anaya broke new ground with Bless Me, Ultima (1972), a mythic novel that captures the richness and complexity of history, community, and place in the American Southwest....