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1) Novels
Author
Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 226
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
This collection of Vonnegut's early work opens with Player Piano (1952), a Metropolis-like parable of breakneck technological innovation and its effect on those it robs of their livelihoods. The Sirens of Titan (1959), the interplanetary adventures of the world's wealthiest and most despised man, is both a pulp-fiction space opera and a satire on the vanity of human striving. The confessions of a German-American double agent well placed among the...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 242
Publisher
Library Of America
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 243
Publisher
Library Of America
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Author
Series
The Library of America volume 40-42
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Author
Series
The Library of America volume 14
Publisher
Distributed by the Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
10) Complete novels
Author
Series
The Library of America volume 110
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Author
Series
The Library of America volume 173
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
12) The snake pit
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A patient at Juniper Hill, a mental institution, novelist Virginia Cunningham's only ties to the outside world is through her husband. Virginia's unreliable observations of the patients and staff at Juniper Hill reveal the complexity of her mental state.
Series
The Library of America volume 115-116
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 311
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
15) Collected works
Author
Series
Library of America volume 39
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
17) Walden
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
Henry D. Thoreau (1817–62) was an American author, naturalist, poet, and philosopher. He wrote many essays and books, including Civil Disobedience, Walking, and The Maine Woods, among others. John Updike (1932–2009) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and poet.
One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded...
Author
Series
The Library of America volume 119, 120
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 25
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Tells the stories of a mourning family remembering its past, a vicious gangster, a young pregnant woman searching for her child's father, and barnstorming pilots at an air show.
Series
The Library of America volume 104-105
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Volume 1 includes interviews and reportage by Neil Sheehan, David Halberstam, Russell Baker, Meg Greenfield, Martha Gellhorn, Ward Just, Tom Wolfe, Mary McCarthy, Seymour Hersh, Francine du Plessix and others.
Volume 2 includes reportage by Seymour Hersh, Francine du Plessix Gray, John Saar, Gloria Emerson, Sydney Schanberg, Flora Lewis, Peter Arnett, and others.