“Just how groundbreaking is this latest installment of the Library of America series? It is so, first and foremost, by its very existence. The only other early American poetry anthology currently in print is—get ready for this—a recent…
“[T]hese colorful works reveal a side of the author—that of a travel writer—all too often ignored.” — Dallas Morning News
“James Baldwin’s gift to our literary tradition is that rarest of treasures, a rhetoric of fiction and the essay that is, at once, Henry Jamesian and King Jamesian.” — Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Fifty years after the turmoil of 1968, modern America’s most turbulent decade comes to life though the collected writings of its greatest literary provocateur
“The Town and The Mansion contain some of Faulkner’s most robust humor…. The Reivers was the final book of a physically and emotionally wasted writer. But it has a clear virtue: … the novel i…
“London had an aspect of a proletarian Byron: illegitimate, handsome, wildly romantic, casting himself as the rebel and revolutionary, admired by Leon Trotsky for his anti-capitalist polemics. He was the archetypal early burn-out, dead…
“This superbly edited collection…adds up to an extraordinary autobiographical portrait.” — Publishers Weekly
“Though a narrative of literal, prosaic truth, Two Years Before the Mast possesses something of the romantic charm of Robinson Crusoe. Few more interesting chapters of the literature of the sea have ever fallen under…
“The Library of America here makes available an unparalleled resource for the study of our nation’s politics, history, and enduring values.”—Daniel Walker Howe