“Wilbur makes Molière into as great an English verse playwright as he was a French one.”—John Simon
“A better playwright than Molière does not exist, and a better translation of a great writer’s plays does not exist.”—Adam…
An unprecedented single-volume edition of one of America’s greatest poets, released to celebrate his bicentennial
“Who, could possibly make another selection [of Walt Whitman] seem fresh? Who is definitely Harold Bloom, dean of American literary critics, who considers Whitman ‘the principal writer that America—North, Central, or South—has brought to…
“The Library of America has now followed its initial Wharton collection, containing the major novels, with a second one devoted to her shorter fiction and autobiographical writings. . . . Edith Wharton’s triumph as an artist is…
Library of America launches its definitive multi-volume edition of John Updike’s novels with the four early works that signaled the arrival of one of the most gifted young novelists of the 1960s.
“Skillfully introduced and selected by Lauren Groff, this excellent collection of 25 short stories by Hale reintroduces an overlooked master of the genre. Hale explores the borderland between inner truth and outer obligation, otherness and…
“For several months I have been camping out in the mind of Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is a companionable, familiar, and yet endlessly stimulating place, and, since his mind is stronger than mine, I keep referring to his wisdom, even his doubts,…
For the first time, the complete stories of the master chronicler of tradition and transformation in the twentieth-century South are available—in a deluxe two-volume Library of America boxed set.
“Dolores Hitchens’s Fools’ Gold starts out with three young delinquents who think they’re smart, coming up with the kind of caper so stupid only the young could have dreamed it up. Then they make the mistake of letting a really bad…
“A marvelous and much-needed single-volume collection of the writings of America’s greatest Chief Justice, selected by the scholar who knows him best.”—Gordon Wood, author of Empire of Liberty