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Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs by Ambrose Bierce; S. T. Joshi (Editor)
$39.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Library of America (Hardcover)
A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldi ...Show more
Art in America 1945-1970 - Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism: (Library of America #259) by Various
$45.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Library of America
Experience the creative explosion that transformed American art, in the words of the artists, writers, and critics who were there: In the quarter century after the end of World War II, a new generation of painters, sculptors, and photographers transformed the face of American art and shifted the center ...Show more
Bernard Malamud: Novels & Stories of the 1960s by Malamud, Professor Bernard, Davis, Reader in English Literature Philip (University of Liverpool, UK University of Liverpool University of Liverpool, UK University of Liverpool, UK University of Liverpool, UK University of Liverpool, UK University of Live
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Category: No Category | Series: Library of America Bernard Malamud Edition Ser.
'Read now,' Philip Roth has observed, 'you see that Bernard Malamud has more than a little in common with Beckett - the eerie clowning, the magic barrel of unadorned prose, the haunting melancholy of stories about 'things you can't get past.' For me, as a young writer of the next generation starting out ...Show more
John Updike: Collected Early Stories by Professor John Updike
$45.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Library of America
The Library of America presents the first of two volumes in its definitive Updike collection. Here are 102 classic stories that chart Updike's emergence as America's foremost practitioner of the short story, "our second Hawthorne," as Philip Roth described him. Based on new archival research, each story ...Show more
John Updike: Collected Later Stories by John Updike
$45.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Library of America
The Library of America presents the second of two volumes in its definitive Updike collection. Here are 84 classic stories that display the virtuosic command of character, dialogue, and sensual description that was Updike's signature.. Based on new archival research, each story is presented in its final ...Show more
Jonathan Edwards: Writings from the Great Awakening by Jonathan Edwards
$45.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Library of America
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is recognized today as a great theologian and philosopher. The historian Perry Miller has called him "one of America's five or six major artists," a writer possessed of "an intelligence which, as much as Emerson's, Melville's, or Mark Twain's, is both an index of American so ...Show more
Novels and Stories 1932-1937 - The Pastures of Heaven / to a God Unknown / Tortilla Flat / in Dubious Battle / of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
$85.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Library of America
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. ...Show more
The Civil War: The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived It by Eberly Professor of Civil War Studies Aaron Sheehan-Dean (West Virginia University <p>West Virginia University, USA <p>West Virginia University, USA <p>West Virginia University, USA <p>West Virginia University, USA <p>West Virginia University, USA <p>West Virginia University, USA West Virginia University)
$50.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Library of America
This final installment of the highly acclaimed four-volume series traces events from March 1864 to June 1865. It provides an incomparable portrait of a nation at war with itself, while illuminating the military and political events that brought the Union to final victory, and slavery and secession to th ...Show more
The Days Trilogy by Professor H L Mencken
$39.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Library of America
A major literary event: Mencken's dazzling autobiography, with 200 pages of his own never-before-published commentary and photos. In 1936, at the age of fifty-five, H. L. Mencken published a reminiscence about his boyhood in The New Yorker, beginning a long and magnificent adventure in autobiography by ...Show more
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