Authors:James Baldwin,  Toni Morriso,
Publisher: Library of America
Keywords: essays, name, street, time, devil, work, america, library, fire, finds, knows, collected, baldwin, notes, native, nobody, son, james
Number of Pages: 869
Published: 1998-02-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1883011523
ISBN-13: 9781883011529

Writer James Baldwin earnestly championed the civil rights movement in both his fiction and nonfiction, a fact which, coupled with his extraordinary writing talent, assured not only his historical importance, but also his place as one of the finest African American writers of his generation. Collected Essays is a comprehensive collection of his most memorable prose, including "Stranger in the Village," "The Harlem Ghetto," and "Many Thousands Gone." Clear in voice and vision, the essays communicate the emotions of an entire historical movement. Combining politics, prophecy, and passion, Baldwi

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: Library of America
Keywords: romance, blithedale, gables, marble, faun, america, library, seven, house, collected, hawthorne, novels, fanshawe, letter, scarlet, nathaniel
Number of Pages: 1272
Published: 1983-04-15
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0940450089
ISBN-13: 9780940450080

Here in one volume are all five of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s world-famous novels. Written in a richly suggestive style that seems remarkably contemporary, they are permeated by America’s and Hawthorne’s own history. "The House of the Seven Gables" moves across 150 years from an ancestral crime condoned by the Puritan theocracy to a new beginning in the bustling and democratic Jacksonian era. Hawthorne’s masterpiece, "The Scarlet Letter," is a dramatic allegory of the social consequences of adultery and the subversive force of personal desire in a community of laws. "The Bli

Authors:William James,  Gerald E. Myer,
Publisher: Library of America
Keywords: students, teachers, essays, library, america, talks, believe, writings, james, psychology, briefer, course, william
Number of Pages: 1212
Published: 1992-06-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0940450720
ISBN-13: 9780940450721

The brilliant, engagingly written early works of the writer and teacher who has profoundly influenced the way Americans think. "The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy" argues that each of us has the right to believe in hypotheses that are not susceptible to proof and that such beliefs might actually change the world. Also includes "Psychology: Briefer Course," a condensed and revised version of the monumental "Principles of Psychology," "Talks to Teachers and Students," and nine important essays.

Authors:John Muir,  William Crono,
Publisher: Library of America
Keywords: california, mountains, sierra, stickeen, essays, america, library, summer, first, nature, muir, writings, story, youth, boyhood, john
Number of Pages: 928
Published: 1997-04-22
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1883011248
ISBN-13: 9781883011246

In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir made himself America’s most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness, a master of natural description who evoked and celebrated with unique power and intimacy the untrammeled landscapes of Alaska and the American West.

Authors:Thomas Paine,  Eric Foner,
Publisher: Library of America
Keywords: pamphlets, reason, articles, letters, america, library, man, rights, collected, paine, writings, common, crisis, sense, thomas
Number of Pages: 906
Published: 1995-03-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1883011035
ISBN-13: 9781883011031

Paine was the impassioned democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, and this volume brings together his best-known works--"Common Sense," "The American Crisis," "Rights of Man," "The Age of Reason," along with a selection of letters, articles and pamphlets that emphasizes Paine’s American years.

Author: William Jame
Publisher: Library of America
Keywords: problems, truth, meaning, philosophy, essays, america, library, universe, pluralistic, writings, james, varieties, religious, pragmatism, experience, william
Number of Pages: 1379
Published: 1988-02-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0940450380
ISBN-13: 9780940450387

"The Varieties of Religious Experience," "Pragmatism," "A Plurialistic Universe," "The Meaning of Truth," "Some Problems of Philosophy," selected essays including addresses on Emerson, the Philippine question, the California earthquake, and the famous "The Moral Equivalent of War." The last great works from a seminal figure in the history of American philosophy and psychology.

Author: Adam Gopnik
Publisher: Library of America
Keywords: anthology, literary, paris, americans
Number of Pages: 650
Published: 2004-03-30
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1931082561
ISBN-13: 9781931082563

From the earliest years of the American republic, Paris has provoked an extraordinary American literary response. An almost inevitable destination for writers and thinkers, Paris has been many things to many Americans: a tradition-bound bastion of the old world of Europe; a hotbed of revolutionary ideologies in politics and art; and a space in which to cultivate an openness to life and love thought impossible at home. Including stories, letters, memoirs, and journalism, Americans in Paris distills three centuries of vigorous, glittering, and powerfully emotional writing about the place that He